Otherwise, he might get slapped again. Via Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo! Sports.
↵↵↵On this day, everyone was still buzzing over Washington Wizards guard Jordan Crawford’s mistake of talking too much to Garnett a day earlier. When Boston Celtics teammate Paul Pierce tried to do Crawford a favor and push him away, Crawford urged Pierce to let K.G. go.
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↵There are hard lessons to be learned in this league, lockout or not lockout. Eventually, Garnett reminded Crawford about that with a smack upside his head, a reminder to Crawford, Rubio and the rest of them: Elders will be respected.
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I will say this: if Garnett knew he was slapping someone who will end up being better than Michael Jordan, he probably wouldn't have done it.