HANG TIME HEADQUARTERS – You asked for it Joakim Noah and now it appears you are going to get it.

Well, sort of.

You wanted a more sensitive Kevin Garnett, a kinder and gentler KG, one that doesn’t trash talk opponents and try to intimidate people with his words and actions.

Garnett won’t be saying much of anything to you, Charlie Villanueva or anyone else he deems “nobodies,” as he explained to the Dale & Holley Show on WEEI radio in Boston when asked about the dust-up between he and Villanueva from a couple of weeks back when Villanueva accused Garnett of delivering some unseemly insults during a game:

First off, the false statement which he was citing. Dude knew what I said to him. I’m not going to get back into it and bring it up, because you know what? I’m not speaking to nobodies these days. I’m not fitting to address nobodies. I’m not about to give nobodies any kind of energy or any kind of legs to run on.

My NBA.com colleague Art Garcia waded into these deep waters immediately after the Garnett-Villanueva incident and came up with some tremendously interesting insights from some of their peers.

Up to this point everyone but Garnett has had their say on the topic. Villanueva used Twitter to vent his frustrations with Garnett. Noah had his say while doing a Chicago radio interview. So to hear Garnett speak on it now at least wraps this thing up, at least for some of us.

His perspective on the current state of affairs in the league, in regards to trash talking and technology, is interesting to say the least:

It’s just sad where we are in society, man, I don’t know, with being private. It’s sad to see where the game’s going, man. Like, if you and I are on the court or we’re outside on the blacktop and we’re chopping it up, we’re just going at it, and you say what you say, I say what I say. To me, where I’m from, that’s called trash-talking. That’s two guys bumping heads. End of story. Every night you deal with it. Every night you go against a guy, even if you’re in practice, it don’t even matter, man. I trash talk with guys who don’t even play basketball.

“But to sit here and make up pointless things just to get — what do you call that, followers? I don’t even know what Twitter is. Shaq had to break it down to me. To get followers, or to get people to hear you, because you’re not heard. Well, there’s a reason people don’t hear you. There’s a reason people don’t follow you. Those things. The things that people are doing to get attention these days. And then on top of that, no one checks facts anymore. You can just say whatever you want to say, and then it’s reality. Which is absurd to me. So, you know what? What you’ve been seeing is a more composed, more, ‘Let me just lock in.’ I’m not really dealing with nobody these days. I’m trying to focus on what I’ve got to do and sort of stay in my lane, so to speak.”

Not that you needed any more incentive to watch tonight’s Thunder-Celtics game (7 p.m. ET on ESPN), but we have to tune in now to see if Garnett considers Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook nobodies?