I personally love trash talk in the NBA. It fuels rivalries, and rivalries fuel better games to watch, and as a fan more then anything, it’s fun to see. Last night, LeBron James and Joakim Noah got into it, because LeBron James dunked it all over Noah, and Noah wasn’t having any of it.
Now according to Brett Pollakoff of ProBasketballTalk:
“As a competitor, I love his emotion,” James said. “But I think the words that he used to me were just a little bit, you know, a little bit too far. I’m a father with three kids, and it got very disrespectful.
“I’m OK with competing against Jo. I love the competitive nature in him. But we should leave it there. The disrespectful words that he said to me were uncalled for.”
Noah didn’t see it the same way.
“Disrespectful? I got mad respect for LeBron,” he said postgame, according to the Cleveland Plain Dealer. “We’re just two players trying to win a game. That’s all.”
Game 4 is going to be interesting to see, with the Bulls sliding away with a Game 3 victory with a Derrick Rose game winner, can they take control of this series in Game 4 and put the Cavaliers under pressure? If momentum has swung then that is what will happen.
