As it turns out, the Celtics and Kim Kardashian have a common enemy: Kris Humphries. A day after Rajon Rondo shoved and punched Humphries into the stands — resulting in a two-game suspension for Rondo that was announced Thursday — Kevin Garnett seemed to blame the ordeal on the Nets forward, whose foul on Garnett triggered a chain of events that ended with three ejections.
As it turns out, the Celtics and Kim Kardashian have a common enemy: Kris Humphries. A day after Rajon Rondo shoved and punched Humphries into the stands — resulting in a two-game suspension for Rondo that was announced Thursday — Kevin Garnett seemed to blame the ordeal on the Nets forward, whose foul on Garnett triggered a chain of events that ended with three ejections.
As it turns out, the Celtics and Kim Kardashian have a common enemy: Kris Humphries. A day after Rajon Rondo shoved and punched Humphries into the stands — resulting in a two-game suspension for Rondo that was announced Thursday — Kevin Garnett seemed to blame the ordeal on the Nets forward, whose foul on Garnett triggered a chain of events that ended with three ejections.
(Reuters) – Boston Celtics point guard Rajon Rondo was suspended for two games for fighting with Nets forward Kris Humphries in Wednesday’s 95-83 Brooklyn victory, the National Basketball Association said on Thursday. Three-time All-Star Ronda rushed at Humphries after the Nets player sent Boston’s Kevin Garnett to the floor with a foul under the basket. Brooklyn’s Gerald Wallace engaged Garnett after the Boston player got to his feet to join in the melee. Wallace was fined $35,000 and Garnett $25,000 for escalating the altercation. …
WALTHAM, Mass. (AP) — Boston Celtics point guard Rajon Rondo was suspended by the NBA for two games on Thursday for starting a scuffle with Brooklyn Nets forward Kris Humphries.
Rajon Rondo needs to learn he’s now a superstar. He can’t keep risking suspensions at the cost of his team.
The Brooklyn Nets are off to a fast start at 10-4, tied for second place in the Eastern Conference with the New York Knicks.
They have received great play from their refurbished bench, as well as from Deron Williams and Brook Lopez. Joe Johnson is working his way back to his old form after struggling with his shot early on, and Kris Humphries has seen a slight regression is his scoring due to the overall improvement of the team on the offensive end of the court.
Opposing teams have yet to figure out a surefire way of beating the Nets, but there’s one glaring weakness that the opposition needs to learn to attack.
Lopez and Humphries, while they are capable of holding their own on the offensive side of the ball, aren’t exactly the greatest post defenders.
Lopez is notorious for not playing defense or rebounding well, while Humphries is a solid rebounder that lacks in overall defense.
Attacking the Nets inside is something that all teams should try to do—regardless of their talent level at power forward and center.
Look at the Cleveland Cavaliers for example.
Anderson Varejao had the night of his career on November 13 against the Nets. He scored 35 points and grabbed 18 rebounds, primarily being matched up with Lopez.
It was Varejao‘s sixth—yes, sixth—career 20-point game. That’s over a nine-year NBA career.
Varejao isn’t exactly a dominant offensive force in the paint (he’s averaged just 7.5 points per game over the course of his career). His outburst earlier in the month is further proof that the Nets can’t handle aggressive big men.
In the Nets’ most recent game against the Boston Celtics, they were unable to slow down big men Brandon Bass and Kevin Garnett.
While neither of them necessarily “went off,” they each dropped 16 points on over 50 percent shooting.
The Nets are giving centers and power forwards too many easy looks and wide open lanes to the basket, making it an easy weakness to exploit. Opposing teams need to start taking advantage of that and working the ball inside against Brooklyn. As of right now, they just aren’t able to stop it.
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In the words of the great Sam Cooke, “It’s been a long, a long time coming. But I know a change gonna come, oh yes it will.”
That can describe the feeling in the NBA right now as the Brooklyn Nets, who not too long ago won 12 games in an entire season, defeated the Boston Celtics for the second time to remain atop the Atlantic division.
This was a barometer game for the Nets and they proved something with a win.
Right off the bat it seemed as if the Celtics were gonna bring high energy. They jumped off to an early lead, and the Nets could have easily just coasted. Instead, the New Jersey went on a run, sparked by two three-pointers from Joe Johnson.
After the first quarter, the Nets led 28-20 and would not trail after that.
The biggest story from the night was the brawl that started after a Kris Humphries foul on Kevin Garnett. Celtics point guard, Rajon Rondo, wanted a little retaliation and started shoving the Nets forward towards the crowd.
This caused members of both teams to go in and try and break up the fight. It also caused a little scuffle between Garnett and Gerald Wallace. Garnett started swinging at Wallace, who was just trying to separate the pile like everyone else.
After the refs looked over the situation on replay, they gave Wallace a technical foul, which was his second of the game and led to his ejection. Kris Humphries and Rondo were also ejected while Garnett only picked up a technical.
The end result of this fight is Rondo and Garnett looking even more like punks and the Nets getting a little team chemistry builder.
The Nets were led by Joe Johnson ,who had 18 points and six assists, and Andray Blatche, who had 17 points and 13 rebounds.
The top “dog” in the Atlantic division over the last few years has been the Celtics. That definitely seems to be changing with the way the Knicks and the Nets have played this season.
The Nets completely dominated the Celtics in this game, which seemed almost impossible over the last few seasons .This is probably the first real glimpse at the power being shifted in the NBA.
There is no arguing that there is something going on in Brooklyn!
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After 37 games, Rajon Rondo’s nearly unparalleled streak of double-digit assists is over after a brawl between the Celtics and Nets, and more importantly, Rondo and Kris Humphries.
It all happened towards the end of the second quarter, just when the Celtics were starting to get into a groove after a poor start to the game.
Up to that point in the game, the Nets had noticeably out-played the Celtics physically, especially on the glass. This reached its apex when Kris Humphries gave Kevin Garnett an extra-zealous shove on a shot attempt. Rondo took objection to it.
He wasted no time in trying to do his best Vince Wilfork impression on Humphries, fitting into Humphries‘s chest and bull rushing him underneath the basket.
Although Rondo was wrestling 50 pounds and eight inches out of his weight class, he still got the better of Humphries. However, as a result, he will now have to wait at least another 48 games to get the best of Magic Johnson and break his assist record.
As after the fight, Rondo, Gerald Wallace and Kris Humphries were all sent to the locker room for the night.
In my most recent Celtics Mailbag, I wrote that I saw nothing that would keep Rajon Rondo from breaking the record. Obviously, I did not see an ejection ending this remarkable streak for Rondo.
And it’s really a shame that this is how it has to end for Rondo. After all of the time and effort Rondo has put into coming close to history, you hate to see it settled any way other than by 48 minutes of basketball.
Rajon Rondo cost himself the opportunity to decide his fate on the court. I’m not going to sit here and condemn Rondo for it. It was his record to break and he didn’t.
Was it childish to try to fight Humphries? Absolutely.
But that’s Rondo. Besides giving the Celtics over 10 assists every (full) game, he also fights for them every game.
He will fight, scrap and claw for his teammates whether it costs him a hard-earned record or not and that is part of the reason why the fans love him so much.
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BOSTON (AP) — Boston Celtics point guard Rajon Rondo was ejected in the second quarter of Wednesday night’s game against Brooklyn when he shoved Kris Humphries after the Nets forward knocked Kevin Garnett to the ground with a hard foul.