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Andrea Bargnani on Kevin Garnett: He's definitely the best defender I ever played against
Andrea Bargnani: Kevin Garnett is an absolute legend. He is definitely the best defender I ever played against. Me being a very good offensive player, I never had trouble scoring against anybody. Honestly, I never really felt the difference of who I had in front of me. It was more about me, if I was playing bad or good, not the guy I had in front. It never really affected my game. Kevin Garnett affected me a lot when he was playing defense.
Alex Rodriguez teases a return to the Kevin Garnett days in potential Timberwolves rebrand
Jon Krawczynski: Alex Rodriguez on a potential Wolves rebrand: "We've done a lot of work in the background. I think our fan base is going to be very, very excited. ... Bringing back some of the history of the KG days is something we're very aware is important to our fan base."
Lights, camera, layup. The NBA Summer League is giving athletes another shot that takes place behind the camera. With assists from Hall of Famer Kevin Garnett and Hollywood power players Mark Wahlberg and Deon Taylor, the Summer League Film Festival is coming back starting July 17 in Las Vegas. The three-day festival will bring big-screen storytelling through 34 selected projects, spotlighting stories produced by NBA stars past and present including Nikola Jokic, Luguentz Dort, Tony Allen, Nate Robinson, Cole Anthony, Keyon Dooling and Udonis Haslem.
“We have a ton of NBA players who own production companies,” said Garnett, who won the NBA championship with the Boston Celtics. He cofounded the production company Content King Studios. Garnett said he wants to highlight filmmakers who are telling authentic, real-life stories.
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Q. What is your perspective on the night Camelo Anthony was waiting by the bus for your boy Kevin Garnett? And you know, they call you Truth. Yeah. So, I'm going to have to ask you right now to give me the truth on that whole incident when they had the words on the court, man. And he was waiting. Paul Pierce: Yeah. So, I didn't hear what was said. You know, it's a lot of speculation on that. And I never asked him. You know what I'm saying? I didn't know it was going to escalate to that cuz we were on the court and I was just like, damn. You know, KG used to get under people's skin. And you know, he'll say some something foul, but well, maybe he has crossed the line a couple times now. Like he just said, I didn't hear him say, but I didn't hear him in New York. I was still in the locker room, I guess he, T-Lou, and Big Baby went down there. I guess Carmelo was down there. This is what I heard before I even came down from the shower cuz it was just like it escalated quick like Melo down there like got to walk down the ramp or take the elevator down to where we all kind of be right there, our bus right there and I got on the bus and there was something going down. So I get off the bus like ‘damn what's going on?’ but about time all of that I guess they had shook hands or something. Melo felt like it was something disrespectful saying like to this day like I said I never asked KG like man what did you really say or like cuz I'll be watching the tape and I ain't see I ain't see where he said anything but honestly Melo ain't going to be like that. I know Melo ain't going ain't going to just overreact to some something that was some bullshit. So, uh, to this day, I just, you know, I think they squashed it, maybe. I think I heard Melo on this podcast, you know, say they talked or whatever. But, uh, I to this day, I swear to you, on my kid, I never asked him what he said in that situation.
Paul Pierce on Achilles injuries: Players don't practice no more
Paul George: From your perspective, why you think that's such a common injury for the NBA now? Paul Pierce: Man, that's crazy that you said that. Me and Kevin Garnett we were just talking about this, man. We say it's a combination of the like pace, the pace is a part of it but we like man he like KG made an interesting point he was like ‘they don't practice no more’. Cuz now you conditioned to play so many games like when you practice like… let me ask you this: What year did you come in? Paul George: 2010. Paul Pierce: Okay so now you didn't played in like you could say like three eras now, so what's the difference from like think about early 2010 and 11 till now? Paul George: It is the practice and I'm the one for like I be pushing the coach like ‘Yo, we need to practice more’.
Kevin Garnett on today's players: 'They do play at a fast rate, but I don't think they're in tip-top shape'
Kevin Garnett: And we don't think that today's NBA players... they do play at a fast rate, but I don't think they're in tip-top shape. I don't think these players today... I think they think they're in shape — until they talk to my folks that's really in shape, you know what I'm saying? I don't think the league is in the type of shape you need to be in to play at this pace. They think that. And if anybody knows the body — your calves are your brakes, you know? Your calves are your brakes. And the one thing that supports the calves is your Achilles. So if your calf is the first thing to shut down, you have to think about how things are built, right? I watched all the tapes of Kobe, Tatum, and Harden. When you watch how all three of them tore their [expletive], they tore it the same way — pump fake. And you used to pump fake like this — I used to pump fake with my whole body.
Kevin Garnett on Knicks firing Tom Thibodeau: It was time, dog. Thibs’ style ain’t going to make the new wave, dog. It ain’t going to work out in 2025. Should have stopped at 2022.
Paul Pierce: LA ain't like some of these places we played in the Eastern Conference. Eastern Conference crowds and Western Conference crowds, it's two different crowds. Kevin Garnett: Philly crazy. Pierce: When you got to go to Philly, when you got to go to Indiana, I done played in all these Toronto. We done played in hostile environments. Garnett: Toronto was crazy. Pierce: So, like it ain't I can't even think of one Western Conference team that's crazier than East Coast. Garnett: You’re talking about crowd-wise, right? Pierce: Crowd-wise, maybe Sacramento back in the day. Back in the day, though, early 2000s, Minnesota was kind of rowdy.
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Kevin Garnett: 'Lu Dort is the new Joe Dumars'
Kevin Garnett: “That Lu Dort look like the new Joe Dumars out here, boy. Lou Dort—hey, listen. Ant—man, I love Ant. This the first time I’ve seen him where I don’t think he can get by this motherf*cker. This man is the Lou Ferrigno of the NBA. Lu Dort is the new Joe Dumars. I swear to God. I’m watching Ant try to get by him and—Lord—he can’t turn the corner on that big motherf*cker. And he don’t go for nothing.
Carmelo Anthony on Cooper Flagg: We haven't seen a white boy like that in a long f****** time
Carmelo Anthony: Ace Bailey — we've seen Ace before. That’s why it’s not talked about like that. We’ve seen Ace. We’ve seen Paul Georgee. We’ve seen Kevin Garnett. We’ve seen Tracy McGrady. We’ve seen Mellos. We’ve seen Jayson Tatum. Like, we’ve seen Ace. That’s why he’s not being talked about. That doesn’t take anything away from him, but visually we’ve seen him, right? We haven’t seen — and not to make this black and white — but we haven’t seen a white boy like that in a long f------ time. Right. That’s when you know he really good. That’s when you know Cooper Flagg really good. Like — but we haven’t seen that in a long time.
Kendrick Perkins: But you have levels of not liking each other—because you're around each other so much. You’re gonna have attitude. Like KG... quiet as kept—he’ll tell the story now—but James Posey was the leader of our team. KG, at times, hated this motherf*cker. Guess why he hated Posey? One—because Po guarded him in practices. Our practices—our white vs. green practices—we looked forward to going harder at each other in practice than in games. Games would end and we’d be like, “Yo, we gonna bust your ass tomorrow.” "Y’all got us f**ed up!"* And the one thing Po used to do? Every ride—on the bus, on the plane—he had on a suit... And guess what else he had? He had his championship ring from Miami. He used to sit there—KG sat in the last seat—Pose would sit across from him and put that ring on his thigh, with it just popping out. And KG would be like, “He’s doing this on purpose.”
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