No Brain Activated: Matt Barnes has a potty mouth
Written by Don Landrigan   
Wednesday, 17 March 2010 07:30

Overall, Matt Barnes played pretty well when the Orlando Magic beat the Lakers.

He did a good job defending Kobe Bryant, or at least as good a job as anyone can do when playing on Kobe.

But he did get a little overly enthusiastic at times.

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The "no-it-really-does-smell" pump-fake-pass right at Kobe's nose went a little too far, and Kobe not flinching just gives him the "win" in that category. It really looked like a guy trying to intimidate in a streetball pick-up game, and belittled the efforts he'd made. The swing-on-the-rim into Kobe, post a dunk was a bit too much too. Enthusiasm. Sometimes, it can get the better of you. But hours later, when a player should be just relaxing, chilling between games... you'd think that stupidity wouldn't reign supreme. And at first, it seemed that Matt Barnes was saying all the right things.

Via Twitter...

"No such thing as a (Kobe stopper) he's the badest man n the league. He had 35pts 2day. I jus try 2 make him work 4 every point. Respect!!!"

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Kudos for that tweet. It was a perfectly worded missive to the world that showed class post winning.

But then the trash-talking started. Sure, Lamar Odom had things to say about Barnes - calling him a "monkey" wasn't an auspicious moment in Laker/Magic relations... but as explained in the OC Register's piece on this:

Odom yelled out that Barnes was "a monkey," adding: "He picked the right game to act tough." Later, after most reporters had left him, I asked Odom for clarification on that "monkey" comment. Odom said it referenced rapper Rick Ross calling 50 Cent "a monkey" in their rivalry.

"That's an inside joke," Odom said. "The rappers that are feuding with each other, Rick Ross and 50 Cent ... they're feuding with each other. That's an inside joke with this team. Matt Barnes is a cool dude. If I call him a monkey, I don't mean it. If I call him a superhero or a wrestling figure, I don't mean it.

"He did what he had to do. He played a great game. He got the crowd involved. Basketball's entertaining, as well. He did a great job for his team today."

Ok, fair enough.

But Matt Barnes' response went over the bounds of trash-talking, and simply into... well... trash. Via his twitter account, he declared:

"Seems Lamar can't keep my name out of his mouth maby I need 2 put my sons shitty diaper n it"

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Say what?

Yup. Twitter, and stupidity. It's happened more than once (hell, just ask JR Smith. Err... Earl III... err... whatever).

And once it's out there, it's out there. No recalling it - deletion won't help: someone always takes a screenshot if it's worth of doing so.

Don't get me wrong: Barnes is a good player, and Orlando are going to need him to be at his most ruthless if they're to get out of the East, never mind win the Finals... but this was definitely lacking in good judgment.

Odom for his part has kept any shots fired across the bow off twitter. A wise mind bides a silent tongue?

Perhaps that's something Matt Barnes could learn...

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Don also writes regularly at With Malice - A Lakers blog.  This will be a regular column on stupidity within the NBA.


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