Kevin Garnett is an A**hole

Okay, I looked into it. Calling someone an asshole isn't considered insensitive. No one's ever died from being an asshole. Well, Saddam Hussein, but that's a slightly more complicated case. So yeah, I'm going to say it. Kevin Garnett...you, sir, are a real, mean-muggy, bitchy, never committed a foul, double-double scoring ASSHOLE.

And honestly, I felt this way even before you went and called Charlie Villanueva a "cancer patient". And yes, we all saw the "that's not what I said" phony press release coming. That's just typical PR stuff. Let's be honest, you've had a history of being a trash talker who runs his mouth way too much (remember how you were injured in the 2009 1st round series against the Bulls, and you waited until your Celtics finally had game 7 in the bag safely, then started talking shit from the end of the bench. True class.) You're the poster child for why the league had to pass a rule to keep kids from coming to the NBA straight out of high school. The older you've gotten, then less maturity you've displayed. You're a classless individual that plays a sport, and more importantly plays in a league, that protects and glorifies classless individuals, so that's probably why you're going to get away with calling Charlie Villanueva a "cancer patient".

No one in their right mind really believes Charlie Villanueva "misheard" you saying "you're a cancer to your team and our league" for "Hey, you look like a cancer patient", or "You're a cancer patient". I'm not stupid, and I Charlie Villanueva isn't stupid enough not to understand the difference between the implication of what he heard and what you're telling him he heard. It's insensitive any way you shape it up. You know how many people are diagnosed with cancer, let alone those who die from it, and your just going to throw that word around as if it means nothing to you? Hell, I had cancer. Albeit a minor form of skin cancer which was benign, but that still doesn't take back the 60 plus stitches I had in my back for 2 weeks. That shit hurt.

But what has really been sad is the aftermath of this incident...nothing. People are actually coming to your defense. ESPN (which was predictable) has had your back throughout the whole thing, because you're part of their "brand" and they won't dare bash anything that represents that brand. They keep refering to what you "supposedly" or "may or may not have" said. Someone farts in the Dallas Cowboys locker room, and Ed Werder has unnamed sources telling him what that person ate and what it smelled like, but now all of the sudden they don't know which way is up and who said what. Seems convenient.

But even worse than that was that Doc Rivers is saying that Charlie Villanueva broke "an unwritten rule" and shouldn't have went public with what you said on the floor.

Wait, what? This is baffling to me. Let me pose this scenario and see if Doc Rivers still thinks this rule applies. Paul Pierce drives the lane against the Los Angeles Clippers, and Chris Kaman comes over and swats Pierce's layup 10 rows deep into an empty Staples Center. Kaman turns to Pierce and yells, "Get that weak shit out of here, (N-Bomb)!" Is Doc Rivers still saying that what is said on the floor should stay on the floor? I doubt it. And it shouldn't stay on the court if it crosses the line of insensitivity and becomes too personal. And what you said KG, and yes you said it, so stop trying, was grossly insensitive and far too personal to a lot of people. But it wasn't insensitve to just cancer patients and cancer survivors and all those who have passed away from cancer, but to Charlie Villanueva. He has overcome a disease that I'm sure has tested his self confidence and is something I would bet he has been ridiculed for ever since he began to lose all the hair on his head. And through it all, he's persevered with more class than you have or ever will have.

So Doc, and ESPN, and you KG, and everyone trying to make this seem like it's not a big deal, I have a different take (thanks Jim Rome). Instead of pointing fingers about unwritten rules and players keeping what is said on the court (for some reason I feel I must stress this again, but that logic for this incident is so dumb), maybe they should just not say anything at all. Maybe they should worry about playing. Worry more about who should rotate down to the low-post on the helpside than who has can call someone's mother a whore after a meaningless 15 footer in the last 2 minutes of a 20 point blowout.

This league has become, as Kyle Wills recently wrote, a form of entertainment, and hardly a sport. Let's try to get back to it being a sport.

So at the end of the day, when this gets swept under the rug, I will still be here, holding firm to my opinion that Kevin Garnett is and always will be a true asshole.

-Ben Wills