Kevin Garnett in Los Angeles to watch James Blake play tennis
KG's pal, James Blake
Kevin Garnett is in Los Angeles at the Farmers Classis tennis tournament to watch his buddy James Blake compete in the tournament ,according to Diane Pucin of the Los Angeles Times. Blake, who attended Harvard for two years before leaving to pursure his tennis career, is an avid Celtics fan and has attended many games. (Los Angeles Times)
While his enthusiastic tennis play roused the crowd at the Los Angeles Tennis Center, Blake might want to keep quiet about one of his other passions — the Boston Celtics. Celtics forward Kevin Garnett was in the crowd Thursday rooting for Blake.
Blake said he and Garnett became friends when Garnett came to the U.S. Open a couple of times. “I’ve been to a bunch of Celtics games,” Blake said. “I saw them beat the Lakers at [Boston] Garden and it’s been so much fun. His intensity on court, that’s something really exciting to watch. He and Ray [Allen] and Paul [Pierce], I hope they can do it again next year.”
Wait a second, Kevin Garnett is a big tennis fan? Tennis is supposed to be a “gentleman’s game”– quiet, subdued, very much like golf. KG– though we love him with all our heart– is anything but subdued. In fact, he’s a certified lunatic when it comes to athletic competition.
Can’t you just picture KG playing tennis? Jumping over the net to talk trash to his opponent, scowling on all fours while his opponent serves, breaking his racket by mashing it against his head, squeezing the tennis ball so hard it bursts. He’d be like Rafa Nadal on steroids. Oh wait, your telling me Nadal already is on steroids? My bad.
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You obviously don’t watch Tennis at all. Today’s players are far from the old “country club” players of old. And actually, even they weren’t so much a “gentleman’s game” not since the Johnny Mac era anyway.
Players like Nadal, Murray, Roddick, are all pretty high intensity guys.
And ya, Nadal must be on steroids, Tennis players aren’t suppose to have guns like that.
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I do watch a little tennis, and your right a lot of the top pros are high intensity, but there is still a sense of decorum expected of the players that’s different than most sports. Perhaps gentleman’s game was a poor choice of words. I mean let’s face it , Johnny Mac was considered the “bad boy” of tennis, but in basketball his yelling at/ complaining to the refs would be completely overlooked. Just look at Kobe, Duncan, Derek Fisher. Guys that torture refs just as as bad Macenroe ever did but with no repercussions on or off the court.
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