Rasheed Wallace has been in the NBA 15 years and he spoke after Friday’s game like a true veteran who thinks the league he loves has gone way too soft.

His rant began when asked about the technical assessed when he argued about a second-quarter foul called on him for running into Toronto’s Hedo Turkoglu.

“They gotta know that he’s a damn flopper,” Wallace said. “That’s all Turkododo do. Flopping shouldn’t get you no where. He acts like I shot him.”

Wallace said that’s a cheap way to play defense.

“That’s not basketball, man. that’s not defense. That’s garbage, what it is. I’m glad I don’t have too much of it left.”

Reminded that he has three years left on his contract didn’t hold back his lecture, adding that Paul Pierce did nothing wrong on his dunk over Chris Bosh early in the fourth quarter.

“This game is watered down, watered down with all that flopping [crap],” he said. “They’re setting rules on us to the point where you’re taunting if you dunk on somebody. Paul dunked it and then he didn’t say nothing but it’s a tech.

“Let the Golden Child do that or one of the NBA Without Border kids do that, it’s all fine and dandy.”

[Hear the audio by clicking here.]

For the record, Wallace confirmed that the ‘Golden Child’ he was referring to is indeed LeBron James.

2 Comments for “Sheed: NBA going soft”

1. dj hoop Says:
   November 28th, 2009 at 1:15 pm

   sheed has a point..lebron james is being heralded as the next big great thing and gets away with everything..i was watching a recent cavs game against detroit and it was evident that the “golden child” traveled by taking atleast 4 steps and wasnt even called. Turk is always flopping along with other euro players and is constantly getting away with the new watered down version of nba basketball..i will never pay again to sit and watch another nba in the near future unless this b.s. stops soon.. i think anderson varejao is the worst flopper in the league today with ginobli a close second in this horrific watered down version of basketball today.. Sheed we love you and stay real to the game and to us knowledgable nba fans!

2. Maximust Says:
   January 11th, 2010 at 4:31 pm

   lol! Even when James is dancing in the face of chicago’s bench the Golden Child didnt receive a tech…crazy!!!

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