With that said, in its brief (just over 20 years) history, mixed martial arts has produced some prolific mouthpiece athletes who have come up with brilliant, hilarious, cruel, and crude examples of trash talk. Of course, the greatest trash talker of all time was Muhammad Ali, but his brand of clever, witty verbal jabs is now all but extinct, as wordplay is rarely used with the care and effect that he had. In MMA especially, this visceral, almost gory discourse brings new aggression into the sport in conjunction with an even more entertaining spectacle. In team sports, there is always a focus on winning the game and helping out the team but in MMA and recent boxing culture, there is a focus on describing how a fight will be won and lost, whether it be rearranging an opponent's face or breaking a limp. Notice, however, that trash talk is different in combat sports. In football, a linebacker might talk about walking all over an offensive line and wrangling a quarterback "all day, baby!" Some trash talkers in hockey just chirp throughout the whole game, calling an opponent names and critiquing their play. With that said, the art comes in many different forms. The quote has become synonymous with Rasheed Wallace and is still a common trash-talking term in all levels of basketball today.While plenty of fans these days are fed up with trash talk, it's still a part of sport and, if done right, it's nothing short of an art form. call on me and so the guy went to the line - it was nothing personal against him - he went to the line and he shot that first one and it went clunk. Wallace himself claims that “it just so happened I felt as though one ref called a B.S. Ball don't lie was first used when opponents would get a foul-call that Wallace deemed unfair and it was his way of criticizing the officiating, without directly doing so, as well as psyching out his opponents. The phrase “Ball don't lie”, was often heard on television as opponents missed their free throws or open jumpers while Wallace was on the court. When Wallace was not directing his chatter at the referees, he roasted his opposition, usually with hilarious off-the-top quotes. Rasheed Wallace is the one season, as well as all-time, NBA leader in technical fouls, mostly due to arguing with officials over foul calls. Please leave a comment below if there is a specific incident you would like to have covered in the future. Check out 15 (in no order) of the most savage trash-talking incidents in NBA history and take a trip down memory lane to the time when the league was fuelled by rivalries and superstar egos. This article could have been entirely populated by Larry Bird, Gary Payton, or Michael Jordan incidents alone. Many on this list including Charles Barkley, Shaquille O'Neal, and Kevin Garnett have transitioned to broadcasting which makes for amazing entertainment. The league is considered by some to be a lot 'softer' than it used to be and many of these incidents took place during the golden age of smack-talking on and off the court during the 1980s and 1990s. Opposing players, coaches, fans, and even teammates have never been safe from the wrath of trash-talking in the NBA. Trash-talking is common in many sports but basketball players seem to take it to the next level. Some do this by setting challenges for training and games, others find themselves competing in a battle of words as well as the battle taking place on the court. Great basketball must maintain an ultra-competitive streak within themselves in order to flourish in the NBA.
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