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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 ??????
Players also like the idea of controlling their own narratives. “We are the influencers,” said Paul Pierce, a 48-year-old Hall of Famer. He has three podcasts: “No Fouls Given,” which he records with another former player, Danny Green, for the Playmaker network; “The Truth after Dark”; and “Ticket & the Truth,” which he does with his former teammate Kevin Garnett. Draymond Green, whose podcast is distributed by Audacy, said: “You can talk through different things from an athlete’s perspective and actually have the time to give context that we don’t have in interviews. In a world that’s full of clickbait, a 24-hour news cycle, context is lost often.”
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Andrew Dukowitz: Anthony Edwards on his relationship with Kevin Garnett and Garnett’s return “I had only met him one time, and that was when we had a commercial together, and he was super cool, we got to know each other a lot, he told me a lot of old school stuff about Minnesota so that was cool. Seeing him come back, I think that was big for us, because he’s a legend, he’s the greatest Timberwolve of all time… hopefully we can get him back in the playoffs”
Grady says Chris Finch told a story about his introductory press conference where they had a FINCH 21 jersey ready because he was hired in 2021 and the PR stuff took it away and said "no no no, there's only one 21"
— CJ Fogler (@cjzero.bsky.social) 2026-04-13T03:07:59.742Z
Carlos Gonzalez: Kevin Garnett returns to Target Center for the Minnesota Timberwolves last regular season game. #Twolves
Kevin Garnett returns to Target Center for the Minnesota Timberwolves last regular season game. #Twolves
— Carlos Gonzalez (@carlosgphoto.bsky.social) 2026-04-13T01:03:28.784Z
You want to be put in a position to succeed. Antetokounmpo: "Yeah. Exactly. Is it bad for me saying, I'm 31 years old, I won the championship when I was 26 years old. Then the question creeps in your head, like ... Did I wait too long? Did I do the right thing?" Did you wait too long for what? Antetokounmpo: "Being here. [Staying in Milwaukee.] "But then I'm like, No, this is what I want. I want to be here. I want to be with my team. I want to win here again. This is my home. I've spent more years [that I can remember] here than in Greece. It's my home. I want to help the community with my wife and my brothers. "Thanasis is loved here, my brother, my mother are loved here. My kids and I ... it's a normal life, I have a normal life. If you go somewhere else, all this switches. But I don't want to look back and be like ..." (Antetokounmpo pauses. He's joined by his brothers Thanasis and Alex, who played together in the latest Bucks game, and he congratulates them, beaming with pride, but also looking worn out and tired.) Antetokounmpo: “This is why you have conversations with all-time greats like KG (Kevin Garnett). Dirk (Nowitzki) was in the same position, and chose to stay. We’ll see. We’ll see what’s going to happen.”
Jon Krawczynski: Kevin Garnett will make his first appearance at Target Center as a team ambassador on April 12 against New Orleans. Jersey retirement will be next season.
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Q. What you think it's going to feel like walking back into Target Center? Kevin Garnett: Oh man, you know, home you've always built, you know what I'm saying? When you not seen somebody come in and do some renovations to the joint, you know, it's always it's always good to come back to the crib. You know what I'm saying? So, it doesn't matter when I come back here, it's always like the first time, you know what I'm saying? Yeah. It's going to be magical. You got some energy to the whole thing. Yeah. I don't I know I don't look it or whatever, but y'all feel me. You feel me? So, yeah. I'm super gas. And then you know when the center with lit, boy, feel me? Yeah. I'm gas. I'm super gas. Let’s get it!
Kevin Garnett: “I’ve never left Minneapolis. I’ve always kept a home there. I’ve always called it home since ’95. And yeah, just perfect timing. I was thinking on the way, and when I knew we was going to have this, what’s the word — I don’t want to say culmination, right? Kind of like the culmination, coming together. But yeah, man, super excited, and it’s the perfect timing for everything to be where it’s at.”
Kevin Garnett: “I’m still friends with Sam Cassell, Spreewell, Gary Trent, T-Hudson, and Trenton Hassell. Those are my guys. Whenever I see any of the guys — Wally, too — I haven’t seen Wally since he’s been doing his CBS stuff, but I see he’s killing it on podcasting and broadcasting. That doesn’t surprise me. Wally always spoke well and knew how to do great interviews. Whenever I see any of the guys, man, it’s all love. Steph — when I see Steph, I said... I went to China, ran into Steph, saw him. We did an event together. It was dope. It was dope to kind of go to the side. We went to dinner, chopped it up like some real ones, cleared a lot of space, a lot of dead air that needed to be cleared, and got on the same page.
Kevin Garnett: “I like young fella. Young fella is a throwback. Young fella could’ve played in our time, just because you had to be that type of dude. Matter of fact, Anthony Edwards reminds me of a lot of the guys. Name somebody — Gary Payton, AI, Steph, Jordan. Everybody you would name has an attitude like that. Everybody thinks Jordan is just some cool-ass billionaire now. Alright, yeah, he got that too. My point is this: you’ve got to have an unbelievable confidence in what you’re doing. And I really feel like the work builds up that confidence when you’ve been in the gym. I don’t think people understand. I don’t know today, because I haven’t been in the gym and worked with somebody for a very long time. But when you said you was in the gym, you was in the gym. Man, when I’m shooting in the gym — yeah, I was really in the gym, shooting in the gym.”