The night belonged to Brian Scalabrine, who filled in nicely for Kevin Garnett, who was serving a one-game suspension. More on the Celtics victory in the morning. For now, I’ll leave you with a cheerful bon mot that made the rounds at the Garden last night.
Give Quentin Richardson credit. The man can talk. This, after Leon Powe and Zach Randolph nearly came to blows in the second quarter. Apparently the perturbed Knicks guard felt like a few members of the Celtics were running their mouths like Joey Porter. That, Q said, is a no no.
“I think a few of those guys know they can’t just say anything to us. I’m just real curious to see what those guys will be saying if we weren’t in a basketball league, and didn’t have referees. I mean it wouldn’t be the same story. I mean they are the World Champions and rah-rah-rah, but the tough part I don’t factor.
I come from a neighborhood where you can say what you want to say, but ’til you do something, it don’t mean nothing. Some of those guys are happy to get a ring, but you ain’t been in the league long enough to talk to people like that. I don’t have a lot of respect for that. Like I said, I’d be curious to hear what they have to say in a different setting, I’d be very curious to say that.
There’s only one way we can settle it. We’re basketball players and nothing else. We’re basketball players and that’s how we got to settle it.”
