After the Knicks received a 45 point trashing by the Celtics last year, possibly sparked by pre-game comments made by Quentin Richardson not much has changed. Fast forward almost a year later and Q still has a problem with the Celtics. At least this time they only lost by nine, Q saved his comments for after the game and Ed Barnes decided to keep his jersey…for now.
“I’ll just be real curious to see what a lot of those guys would say if we weren’t in a basketball arena, where there ain’t no referees and the NBA officials are going to stop certain things,” Richardson said. “I mean, it wouldn’t be the same story. They are the world champions and rah-rah-rah. But I mean the tough talk, I don’t buy.”
“I come from a neighborhood where you can say what you want to say — until you do something, it really don’t mean nothing. Some of those guys are woofing about, ‘Get a ring.’ You ain’t been in the league long enough to talk like that to some people who’s got as many years as we got over here. I don’t got a lot of respect for that.”
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