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Kevin Garnett on Victor Wembanyama: One thing I want to speak on is just Wemby's development. If I'm him, I’m working on core strength because when… Paul will tell you, I'm not the biggest guy, right? But he'll tell you when I sit down and post up, can you move me? Paul Pierce: No, he's strong. Garnett: I'm probably one of the strongest people you could ever run up on and look like how I look, but when it came down there to setting up on that block and then pitching and getting it off down there, yeah, I was the best at that. I would love to work with Big Fella, but this generation has a preference on how they want to work out. And I have to respect that. But yeah, I'm open to all… Listen, I'm looking for big years from not just Wemby. I'm looking for big years from Chet Holmgren. I'm looking for a big summer from Zion Williamson. I'm looking for a big summer from Kyrie Irving. I'm looking for Jayson Tatum to have a big summer.
Sam Mitchell: Kevin Garnett was very superstitious about everything. Everything before every game had to go in a certain order at a certain time. What he ate, what he drank, the way the hot packs were put on his knees. Clayton Wilson, our equipment manager, had to write something on his taped ankles before every game at a certain time. Like, it was routine. So he had this thing about a $2 bill putting in his sock some kind of… and I collected it. What he didn't realize, he didn't know that. So when he lost the $2 bill for some reason Clayton was always stirring the pot.
Sam Mitchell: Clayton would be like ‘KG, Mitch got a bunch of $2 bills! I guarantee you he found yours.’ And KG just going ‘oh…’. So I go in my wallet. I pull out like 15 $2 bills I got folded up. I’m like, "I've been collecting these since the day they came out." And but again, you have to understand, he couldn't play. He would not play. I remember a game Clayton was busy. Couldn't write on his tape. KG called a timeout 2 minutes into the game. Flip like, "What are you…!” “Flip, I got to get Clayton,” and Flip was just… Because he understood he was not going to be right until he Clayton wrote whatever he writes on his ankles.
“It very much feels like Kevin Garnett,” Schultz said, “which means he will win.” Garnett won a championship in his first season in Boston in 2008 after spending 12 years as the face of the franchise in Minnesota. He served as a mentor to Towns early in his career, and now KAT is following in his footsteps. “Time is a flat circle,” Patrick Fenelon deadpanned.
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While the basketball world largely celebrated the raw passion of a young superstar leading a young roster to the Finals, Hall of Famer Kevin Garnett was far less impressed. The former season MVP and champion ripped the Le Chesnay native for crying it out, offering harsh criticism on the latest episode of his Ticket and the Truth podcast. “The Alien got to go through some heartache to be able to tell the fairy tale Hallmark card story. You understand? He got to go through some bulls–t. He’s crying in the motherf—g Western Conference Finals? That was too emotional for me,” Garnett claimed. “He’s got four more games to try to get. You’ve got to go through the Finals now.”
Kevin Garnett: "Chet was the biggest letdown in the playoffs. Moments like this either make you or break you. Okay, so we expected him to be a certain way and he wasn't, right? Now this is your summer to go fix and get yourself better."
Sean Elliott on Victor Wembanyama: At 22 years old, he's still getting there. I still think he hasn't really begun to reach his true potential. I don't think he's even close, actually. Dan, I feel like he's going to fill out a lot more. He's going to continue to figure out the game a lot more. He's going to continue to work on his game because that's the kind of person he is and that's the kind of basketball player he wants to be. You saw what he did with the monks in China last summer. He worked with Kevin Garnett. He worked with Jamal Crawford. He worked with Hakeem Olajuwon. He wants to be great. I believe this is just the beginning for him.
Paul Pierce: I think LeBron James should retire. Kevin Garnett: Damn. You think he should retire? Pierce: Yeah, I think he should, man. Just like for the simple fact that at the age that he still receives the criticism that he still does. Garnett: Are you going to get criticism? Pierce: I know. No, not the great wasn't getting this criticism late. Nobody was criticizing Kobe when he wasn't going to the playoffs in his last year. They was just enjoying his moments. Like the same with Jordan and Washington.
Kevin Garnett: LeBron James is still in the 20s averaging and he took a lesser role and like what's next for Bron, what do you think is next. Paul Pierce: Man when I start thinking about it I look at all the GOATs, Bron is in these conversation like, when I think of Jordan, when Jordan came to the Wizards he never took a secondary role. The only one that really took a secondary role but kind of still was first role was Kareem with Magic. Kobe never took a secondary role. Bird never like it's like for LeBron to come back that's we're asking him to be the third best player.
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Kevin Garnett says Wemby needs a “Black tour of America” and thinks his cousins should take him out “We need to get Wemby a Black woman, right? Let me get my cousin. Hey Ayneesha, I need you to come take Wemby out. Hey Juantia, I need you to take Wemby out. Yeah, take Wemby to godamn Bourbon Street. Get him some oxtail.”
NBA Base: Kevin Garnett has a blunt message for Ja Morant "Get off your pride, bro. Go travel, go play, go do what makes you happy... focus on the love. F*ck the hate. The hate is going to be there... Something you’re doing isn’t working and you’ve got to find it." (Via @kg_certified )
After tonight's deflating defeat, one that left the Warriors out of the playoffs for the second time in the last three seasons, and the fourth time in the last seven, Curry made history, matching Moses Malone, Kevin Garnett and Derrick Rose as the MVP winners with the most times missing the playoffs on their resume, each boasting seven such campaigns. Rose arguably had the least impressive career, accolade-wise, of any MVP winner - due to injuries - but the other two are all-timers. (For this exercise, we're only counting seasons in which the player actually played, so, for example, when Rose missed an entire campaign due to injury, we didn't count that here.) Both Malone (19 NBA seasons) and Garnett (21) played longer than Curry (17) has thus far in his career. Mathematically, Garnett missed the playoffs in 33.3 percent of his career seasons, and Malone in 36.8 percent. Curry is now at 41.2 percent of the years in his career ending without a playoff appearance, a somewhat jarring number considering the level of player he is in the all-time pantheon. (We have Curry as the 13th-greatest player of all-time.)
Kevin Garnett: Eff it! Go get Finals MVP then @anthonyedwards ??????