“Put the gloves on ‘em and let’s see who really wants to go at each other!”

NBA, Video / Apr 13, 2009 / 11:04 am

In case you missed it yesterday, here’s the video of Ray Allen swinging an elbow at Anderson Varejao‘s garbage. We love Ray, but we’re not sure how it works out with him fighting 6-11 Varejao.

Source: The Hoop Doctors

Tags: Anderson Varejao, boston celtics, Cleveland Cavaliers, lebron james, ray allen

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39 Responses to ““Put the gloves on ‘em and let’s see who really wants to go at each other!””

April 13th, 2009 at 11:07 am
Raj S says:
There are physical players, and there are dirty players. Anderson Varejao is definitely a dirty player.
April 13th, 2009 at 11:08 am
Mark says:
This will be an interesting series if KG gets back.
Sideshow Bob is a punk, so I’d put my wager on anybody against him. He’d just flop his way out of the fight.
April 13th, 2009 at 11:09 am
BxBaller says:
If I was Ray, I would’ve done the same thing.
April 13th, 2009 at 11:11 am
Flip says:
The only really dirty play I saw here was Ray’s elbow to the cojones…
April 13th, 2009 at 11:18 am
Mr. A says:
Is it just me or does Ray appear to not even try to escape Varejao’s arm grip, which apparently is stickier than seamen?
Ray gladly went along for the ride.
I don’t care what anybody does though, a grown man never hits another man in the balls. Especially somebody a decade younger than him.
April 13th, 2009 at 11:26 am
d says:
@mark – Sideshow definitely flops if Ray-Ray takes a swing at him
April 13th, 2009 at 11:27 am
mules says:
Yeah Varejao’s such a dirty player…I mean he just viciously attacks Ray Allen’s elbow with his balls.
April 13th, 2009 at 11:29 am
sweetv0mit says:
wow.. no reaction from varejao? jeeze did ray-ray miss? that was a clear elbow nut shot and varejao had no reaction to it? i would have dropped down in 2.5 seconds if that happened to me.. i guess this proves that varejao’s only acting tough and got no balls, pick someone your own size brotha
April 13th, 2009 at 11:32 am
Metropolitan's finest says:
Go Ray Allen….They have cups!!!
Plus A.V. sucks and I hope LeBron sprains his ankle in the playoffs
April 13th, 2009 at 11:35 am
rodnets says:
Varejao is a 6-11 brazilian barbie flopper.
Go Jesus
April 13th, 2009 at 11:41 am
FK says:
Stu Jackson needs to chime in on this one.
Allen deserves one game for the flop and another one for the shot to the sack
What a dirtbag
April 13th, 2009 at 11:41 am
jryu says:
haha varejao looks like freakin godzilla following ray allen after the refs separate them w/ his arms up like that
April 13th, 2009 at 11:47 am
loons says:
that didnt hurt him? how is he not on the ground in the fetal position? do we have a reverse juwanna mann situation going on here?
April 13th, 2009 at 11:51 am
QQ says:
LOL @ mules:
I sorta agree that Varejao is a flopping mess, but what does that tell about Ray Allen, stooping to the level of a so-called ‘dirty player’ and taking a shot to the balls?
April 13th, 2009 at 11:59 am
BERN BROGDEN says:
Ray got caught under Andy’s arm, got flung to the ground like a boogie and reacted.
You only aim for the nads when you’re backs against the wall or you’re facin’ near-certain death.
That situation didn’t qualify for either.
It qualified for…
“AY YO’ DAWG! GET YA ARM OFF–CHILL. WHAT??? AYYY YO. HAND ME A RUMBLE RIGHT F&^%N’ NOW!”
(later in the fight)
“YEAH, CAN’T FLOP WITH ME GRIPPIN’ YOUR GOLDI LOCKS.”
(later…with Ray on the ground…after some Lithuanian and Portuguese ish-talking rubbish)
“WHO HIT ME????”
(ANDY and Z give each other HIGH FIVES)
April 13th, 2009 at 12:17 pm
FourtyTwo says:
Typical Celtics Garbage. Intentional groin shot.
“Penalty? Uh, it’s the Celtics and they don’t have KG. Just a warning will do…”
Think Allen Iverson would be able to live that one down? Reggie Evans gets bad publicity. Ray Allen gets a total pass despite the obvious intentional nut shot. Big surprise.
April 13th, 2009 at 12:21 pm
nao_diga says:
Questions:
Why is Ray Allen in the low box on a free throw?
Why does he keep pushing after the ball has gone through the net? The ball has already bounced once before Varejao spins him around?
Why doesn’t he just bend his elbow (while Varejao is spinning him around, before he goes down)? If he had, Varejao wouldn’t have had any leverage to throw him down.
At least when AV flops, he’s trying to get a charging call, not trying to start a fight.
But basically, just another Sunday afternoon in the NBA.
April 13th, 2009 at 12:53 pm
doc says:
Ray Allen look gay anyway so I can see him aiming for balls when no danger is around.That pic he took for Dime looks like a man that reaches for balls.
April 13th, 2009 at 12:54 pm
method526 says:
awww ray ray dont spoil your image over some curly headed brazilian. i’m surprised andy didnt even flinch after that hit…balls of steel, cup of steel, or no-man’s-land.
April 13th, 2009 at 1:07 pm
POPPI GEE says:
First someone tell Mike Brown that you can dress-up and walk around all day long and even talk to the refs, but we all still know you can’t really coach.
2nd why was Ray trying to rebound with this dude in the first place. “Mouse in the House”. You knew from jump that Ray was gone get slung.
3rd after Ray gets slung in a Do-si-do square dance manner, it just gets weird. He threw the elbow shot and it looks like AV actually tried to “CATCH” his elbow with his legs and hold his elbow in there with his sac.
They should have both been ejected on nastiness and gayness alone.
April 13th, 2009 at 1:16 pm
len-e says:
@ poppi gee LMAO hahaha
April 13th, 2009 at 1:32 pm
TJ says:
The announcers’ reactions were priceless.
JVG: “I’m impressed by Varejao.”
MJ: “I’m not.”
April 13th, 2009 at 1:39 pm
Shrink This says:
I love how Jeff Van Gundy called out NBA players and their behavior in and around most ‘fights’.
I’d love to see what would happen if for once the refs just stepped out of the way. It would be mass confusion…
Of course JVG’s biggest contribution to an NBA scuffle resulted in him humping Zo’s leg…
April 13th, 2009 at 2:08 pm
BERN BROGDEN says:
They should have both been ejected on nastiness and gayness alone.
AMEN!
April 13th, 2009 at 2:25 pm
Bruce says:
No reaction for AV, perhaps he like it. Somebody, anybody do it again!
April 13th, 2009 at 2:28 pm
Bruce says:
Or Ray likes it, showing his true colors. Ray felt the urge!
April 13th, 2009 at 2:56 pm
rell says:
@TJ
The commentary from MJ and JVG was the best part of the whole incident. I died laughing when MJ said “I’m not”.
April 13th, 2009 at 3:20 pm
TheGreatGatsby says:
Sometimes I do wish that they implemented hockey rules. There might be less fake scuffles. In hockey, there is no trying to be a fake tough guy; otherwise they’d be called out.
April 13th, 2009 at 4:08 pm
POPPI GEE says:
@TheGreatGatsby
I don’t think hockey rules would work. Don’t get me wrong, I see what you are saying and I am the first to want to put some changes in the L.
Still, and I might get cooked for this, being of the cultural dominance I don’t think hockey rules would turn out for the better.
See, I guess you can call it pride, wanting to be the alpha male to much from being down so long or some other reason but I would say many black men don’t tend to just fight and let it go afterwards, especially in a public forum.
Double especially if a dude just takes a loss in the fight big time. Then you looking at after game fights in the tunnel, parking lot, later that night in a club and so on.
I mean in hockey they fight and let it go, now how they do that exactly is cool and kinda weird, cause most dudes I know just don’t let it go so easily. Again I think it’s more of a cultural thing. I can’t go drink beers with a guy that just whipped my a$$ or attempted to.
Then you looking at guys like Stephen Jackson and Lamar Odom coming off benches and it would just turn into a fiasco to let dudes “just fight”.
While I do agree it would seperate the real from the fake, it would probably hurt more than help.
April 13th, 2009 at 4:47 pm
BERN BROGDEN says:
And those images of us BRAWLIN’ would set us back 20 years at least and Obama will probably quit.
April 13th, 2009 at 5:47 pm
JAMES says:
SO A.V. IS THE DIRTY PLAYER HUH, WOW U IDIOTS. ELLBOW TO THE GONADS, RAY IS NOT DIRTY, HE’S JUST A SKINNY FAG
April 13th, 2009 at 6:06 pm
hucklebuck says:
Verajao should have gotten punched in the face.
he could have just let go even if Allen put his arm under, or he could have just pushed it away.
Allen’s elbow was justified cuz he was pulled down.
Interesting thought as to what would have happened if Garnett was there.
April 13th, 2009 at 7:03 pm
Gunner J. Matthews says:
SMH at AV having his hands still in the air looking like an idiot
April 13th, 2009 at 8:18 pm
rangerjohn says:
1st WEAK! on both sides of the elbow.
2nd if anderson was such a flopper he would have fallen to the floor kicking and screaming.
3rd, looks like ray needs some lessons on technique.
April 13th, 2009 at 11:28 pm
added says:
fuck the celtics
April 14th, 2009 at 12:48 am
thomasmmm says:
zorro snap: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tIoPZB4kSk
hoping that all the top seeds get upset by 5-8
April 14th, 2009 at 10:07 am
TheGreatGatsby says:
@POPPI GEE
Your viewpoints hold merit. I suppose I was half serious.
April 14th, 2009 at 5:56 pm
imdatnicca says:
im taking exception to Poppee gee. I’m from Nigeria and there is no cultural bias to honor, if home boys playing hockey kicked each others asses in the game and had a beer afterwards that is more testament to them as men. Barkley and Jordan did it, Pat and Alonzo did it…. Playing football Ive stepped on an ankle or two, it was a dig in the game but afterwards we’d hoist a pint. “Good game” “feck you” “Next round’s on me….cuz I BEAT YR AZZ!!!”
if people want to bring an in game infraction into a social environment where (surprise, surprise) they have their entourage around them it just loses props on my level
April 18th, 2009 at 2:38 am
Fashion Inspired Music says:
Happens all the time, you just don’t expect it from Ray, same with Ishaia Thomas