Darko Milicic Called Pau Gasol “soft”
Plus: What Danny Ainge does all day.
-Thanks to reader Gerard van Nuland for emailing this in: Darko Milicic called new teammate Pau Gasol “soft” in a Serbian newspaper interview last month.
“We’ll destroy them all — Spaniards, Greeks, Lithuanians, Russians, Frenches, Italians … All of them! They’re good, but we can demolish them all,” Milicic said. “Spain is not unbeatable. I like to play against Pau Gasol, he’s soft. If we win gold medal in Spain, I’ll take my shirt off and then I will jump from Parliament.”
(Frenches? Jump from Parliament?! Darko is clearly insane. His first meeting with Pau should be televised.)
-Adam Morrison is trying to ignore the haters, and he’s using the Summer League as some kind of refuge.
“It just got to be a lot,” he said. “Both what some people were saying and writing sometimes. I realize that I just have to go out and have fun and not worry about it. That’s what’s good about the summer league. No real distractions.”
-Chucky Atkins should be signing with Denver very soon. I guess this is the Nuggets’ idea of a Plan B should Steve Blake leave via free agency.
-Derek Fisher’s old Jazz teammates aren’t mad at him for moving on.
-Marc Berman, though, is mad at the Knicks’ bigs. And yes, I only linked to this story because I love NY Post headlines.
-So, this is what Danny Ainge’s day is like? I love that True Hoop’s Henry Abbott had the balls to show the clip to Danny.
-And finally for today: Man, why wasn’t my high school basketball coach as aggressive as these Florida football nut jobs? I could’ve been a contender, coach. You bastard!
(Warning: the video clip, due to language, isn’t exactly office-friendly.)
Enjoy the weekend everyone, and please leave the trouble-making to yours truly. See you next week.
41 Responses to “Darko Milicic Called Pau Gasol “soft””
Jul.13 at 4:49 pm
Russ Bengtson says:
Obviously Stephon Marbury needs to get Darko on his show ASAP.
Jul.13 at 5:01 pm
bobby stew says:
I thought someone was referring to Darko as “Paul Gasol soft”.
Jul.13 at 5:05 pm
RedRum says:
so let me get it… Darko… 8ppg 5rpg… wants to destroy Pau… 19ppg 9rpg… Pau… that age 20 was ROY and was posting 17/8… how much money did they pay Darko again? well spent…
Jul.13 at 5:15 pm
Kevin Wilson says:
Darko Milicic is calling out Pau Gasol??? Did we learn nothing from Ruben Patterson?
Jul.13 at 5:29 pm
albie1kenobi says:
i’m guessing darko made that comment before he signed with grizz? which makes it that even more puzzling. imagine calling calling out the best player on a team and then signing with the team. pau may just accidentally cause a darko career ending injury on the first day of practice, not that he has much of a career to speak of. darko, i always root for you, but you just keep on making me look stupid. now i know how chad ford feels everyday when he wakes up.
Jul.13 at 6:20 pm
Reggie Evans says:
Looks like Gasol is getting owned in the pic.
Jul.13 at 6:37 pm
chiqo says:
gasolstoppper gasolstopper gasolstopper
Jul.13 at 6:37 pm
nothin _personal says:
well, you have to remember that Gasol and Milicic pretty much killed each other in thier matchup at the worlds in 2006. 19p, 15rb, 3 bl for Pau, 18p, 15rb, 3bl for Darko. The Spaniards won, but I watched the game and Darko looked really good.
Jul.13 at 6:52 pm
H to the izzo says:
Is anyone paying any attention to the U-19 World Championships?There is some great ball being played.Mike Beasley dominated today against the Chineses(as Darko would say)
Jul.13 at 7:36 pm
Zack Kinnoin says:
who do you think would win in a fight? ‘Nuff said.
Jul.13 at 7:45 pm
The Brooklyn Boy says:
That Berman article pissed me off. How can you get mad at Curry for taking a long-scheduled anniversary vacation with his wife over a voluntary off season camp likely put on the calendar long after the initial plan? Like Mrs. Berman would say, “Yeah, honey, go on the three-day voluntary newswriting conference that recently popped up instead of the week trip to Italy we’d been planning for months.” The New York writers can be inflammatory as all hell, and this is exhibit A.
Jul.13 at 7:56 pm
Dennard says:
yeah, I’d bet Berman wouldn’t talk that sh*t to Curry’s face.
Jul.13 at 9:12 pm
John from Miami says:
That football team is from the Greater Miami Area, a town called Liberty City. As you can tell it’s in the middle of the ghetto. Now you can all see why our NFL players have criminal records imitating that of Zach Randolph’s past. They’re no good and society would be better of without them.
Jul.13 at 9:25 pm
Yaro says:
Mr. Milicic, please report to the drug testing area. Mr. Milicic your dope test is ready, please be so kind to take the test… NOW!!
Jul.13 at 9:26 pm
Greased Up Deaf Guy aka Clay Davis says:
clearly, you all are not capable of seeing darkos greatness
Jul.13 at 9:47 pm
Drolfe says:
There’s no way Darko said that verbatim. If he did he is clearly out of his mind (and strangely agressive).
Jul.13 at 10:25 pm
Russ Bengtson says:
Actually (and most SLAM staffers will agree with me, I think), Marc Berman probably WOULD say that stuff to Eddy’s face. And if Pau’s soft. Darko must be some kind of liquid.
Jul.14 at 12:28 am
Chukaz says:
If Pau is soft, Darko must be some sort of gas, not liquid (@Russ: Remember that the particles are further apart in gas than liquid). I fear that Darko is gonna go all Kobe on use. I can picture it now. I would start looking for the video clip now. Darko is gonna demand a trade or he’s gonna trash Pau on the parkin’ lot somewhere while some kids are recording the conversation.
Jul.14 at 12:47 am
tom says:
new teammate, am i missing something here?
Jul.14 at 2:36 am
Dave says:
Darko is wildin, if I were Pau I’d do a kobe on darko while in practice………..Pau’s elbow meet darko’s face status
Jul.14 at 4:53 am
Gerard Himself says:
I’m Gerard van Nuland an that quote made my day yesterday. It had to be on The Wire. But nothin_personal: when you post stats like that it’s more and more frustrating - Darko CAN play obviously, I’m just wondering when we’re gonna see it. Can’t we just blame this all on Larry Brown?
Jul.14 at 5:04 am
nothin _personal says:
Well, imo, it’s somewhat more complex thatn that. I’ve been working on a post about Euro prospects coming in the Nba, and Darko is exibit A in my case.
P.S.That Serbia team really sucked, if you take Darko and Rakocevic out, they would probably lose by most high school teams. Somebody had to score for them.
Jul.14 at 5:07 am
nothin _personal says:
That game though, was something special. Darko didn’t score when they were 30 points down, he was scoring over double teams, and he was single handedly keeping them in. I was pleasantly surprised.
Jul.14 at 9:48 am
Tariq says:
It seems to me that Darko was just talking trash before the Serbia-Spain game to get his compatriots excited. There doesn’t seem to be any real animosity. (Supercalifagalisticexpealidocious)
Jul.14 at 6:36 pm
brepp says:
And what has Darko proven in the NBA? That even European guys can be busts too?
Jul.15 at 10:25 am
tike says:
bad move Dark one.
Jul.15 at 12:56 pm
Greased Up Deaf Guy aka Clay Davis says:
tariq likes jon amaechi
Jul.15 at 1:03 pm
AB_40 says:
man now you are the followers, that article is old news
Jul.15 at 1:34 pm
Tariq says:
Clay Davis:
What do you mean?
Jul.15 at 2:03 pm
Warren G says:
Wow
Darko, Maybe U Should Set Your Sights A Little Bit Lower Next Time, Say, David Stern Maybe?
I Hear He’s Got Mad Game
Jul.15 at 2:20 pm
Warren G says:
Wow
U Kno How I Kno Yer Gay??
Darko Milicic Called U Soft
Jul.15 at 3:53 pm
Danny W UK says:
The Kings needed a rebounder, they got another 7 footer who can’t even get 6 rebounds. What would Sir Charles or The Worm say?
Mickey Mikki Mouse Moore averaged 3 less rebounds than his Point Guard.
Jul.15 at 7:07 pm
Holiday says:
The Utah players might not be mad but some of us Jazz fans think it’s kind f*cked up that D-fish didn’t at least let the Jazz get something in return but thanks for a great season anyway Fisher, and good luck!
Jul.15 at 8:18 pm
Tariq says:
It’s funny that a dude who’s “greased up” thinks I’m Amaechi. Talk about projecting.
Jul.16 at 2:37 am
Greased Up Deaf Guy aka Clay Davis says:
sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet. i love pu$$y
Jul.16 at 2:38 am
Greased Up Deaf Guy aka Clay Davis says:
and i didnt say you are. i said you like him, specifically.
Jul.16 at 4:23 am
Greased Up Deaf Guy aka Clay Davis says:
eleven weeks
Jul.16 at 5:50 am
slim says:
Hey Tariq, Ignore it…and maybe it will go away.
Jul.16 at 7:19 am
nong mu says:
seem like darko does not have a clue about his ownself
Jul.17 at 6:03 am
Alex says:
Frenches!? This was an interview to a Serbian newspaper in SERBIAN. Of course he didn’t say Frenches. Some other things are also lost in translation like the jump, maybe deliberately. You also have to put the “interview” in the context in was given in. It was more a joking smack talk chat than a serious interview. The funny thing is how this insignificant chat was blown up in to a Darko’s “official” opinion of Gasol only because he later joined the same team.
Jul.19 at 1:20 pm
SLAM ONLINE | » Darko Milicic on Pau Gasol’s “Softness” says:
[…] -Darko Milicic, despite a published report claiming the opposite, says that Pau Gasol isn’t soft at all. He’s all man, baby. “I never said that Pau Gasol was soft. I never said it. They made it up. I mean, I’ve said a lot of things to newspapers that I shouldn’t say before — I know I did that — but I didn’t say this. I just talked to Pau 10 minutes ago and said, it’s not true.” […]