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Heat Central: Draymond Green DEFENDS Giannis after Channing Frye called him a 7’0 running back who isn’t as skilled: “I think this is a dumb statement. To call one of the greatest in the game Giannis, a 7FT running back is PATHETIC. It takes a lot of skill to dribble end to end and dunk the ball. Takes lot of skill to get in the paint and get finished and kick outs. I’ve seen him take people to the post and put in the rim. — To act as ‘he’s a RB’ cause he don’t have the same skillset as Joel Embiid, ok cool. Then Shaq was also a RB. Kevin Garnett did not have the skillset as Joel Embiid… That’s wack. Calling somebody that great a 7FT RB, that’s clickbait.”
Oh No He Didn't: Mike Conley: "Whenever I think of Boston, I think of a winner, a winning culture. Since I was a kid, it's been that way. Since I was in the league, I was a part of the league when KG and them guys won, and Rondo and them, and obviously their last one they won a few years ago. You just think of that immediately. Like PG said, when you walk into the building, there's a sense, there's an atmosphere, there's something that's just a little bit different. You find yourself in there two, three hours, not realizing you've been in there working that much, and just a part of the culture. I think that's initially what I think when I see the Celtics"
Glen Davis: "When I think about it now, where I was so early in my career, I took it for granted in a way. I didn't understand the situation I was in, the opportunity that I truly really had, and just being able to be a part of history at that moment. I remember I had the ball at the end of the game and I just threw it in the air like I didn't care. That's memorabilia. You got to keep that ball. And now just being in a situation and seeing the effect a championship has to fans, it's a great feeling. And then I learned so much, not just basketball, but just life lessons. You got Kevin Garnett, you got Ray Allen, you got Paul Pierce. You got all those different guys that do it differently in their way. So to be able to see Ticket, to be able to see Ray, and Paul be special in their own way was pretty cool."
Dorell Wright: "I was just in the SLAM magazine, T-Mac too. Like I had the big punk cover, I mean, the whole page, me and my high school locker room, T-Mac too. I was believing that sh*t because I was one of the guys I idolized. Him, Kobe, and KG were my favorite three players. Thing about that when I get older, what I recognized that all three of them came out of high school, too. But those are the three guys that, I love to watch. And when I thought I got to Miami, I'm like, 'Oh, it's go time. I'm about to show out.' And then they were like, 'Hey, we’re on player development this year.' I was like, 'What?' So yeah, I definitely thought I was getting to it. I never knew like the vision like where I wanted to be, if I wanted to be an All-Star, Hall of Famer… I never thought of that. I just I was just so happy to be there. But one thing I can say, it never hit me that I'm in the NBA. Like it always felt like I supposed to be here. I never felt like, oh my god! Like it was never one of those moments for me. It was just like I'm where I'm supposed to be.
You came into the league really young. What was that transition like, and who were the veterans that took you under their wing in Minnesota? Zach LaVine: I had a lot of good vets. I came in the league really young at 19 years old, and a couple of my vets were Kevin Garnett, I had Mo Williams, Corey Brewer, Ricky Rubio, who wasn't crazy old at that point, and Thaddeus Young, one of my best friends in the league. They always told me to work, and I was already a really good worker. Sam Mitchell pushed you. Flip Saunders took a chance on a kid at UCLA. They just said, stay in the gym, stay hungry, and never, really, never put a cap on what you're able to do. If you're going out there and you have 25 points, don't be satisfied with that. The next game, go out there and try to get 30. If you make 10 shots in a row in practice, you shouldn't be satisfied like, "Oh, OK, that's good enough." Always try to push the limits of your abilities.
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But that changed during the recent Hall of Fame ceremony. Chris Webber posted a video on X showing Dennis Rodman and Alonzo Mourning shaking hands and sharing a laugh. Kevin Garnett was also present, hilariously hyping up his fellow legends. “Power Forward Summit. What’s beef? Zo and Dennis haven’t shook hands in almost 30 years,” wrote Webber in the caption.
Marc J. Spears: The Timberwolves say Kevin Garnett’s No. 21 jersey will be retired on Feb. 28, 2027 after the Celtics game. Garnett becomes just the second player in franchise history to have his number retired, joining late ex-teammate Malik Sealy, whose No. 2 was retired in 2000.
Dane Moore: I've heard February 28th for the Kevin Garnett jersey retirement at Target Center. The Wolves play the Boston Celtics that night.
Heat Central: Davion Mitchell lists his all time starting 5: PG: Gary Payton SG: Kobe Bryant SF: LeBron James PF: Kevin Garnett C: Shaq (Via miamiheat TT) 🤔
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NBA Courtside: Draymond Green on people calling him a idiot for saying Caleb Wilson’s floor is Kevin Garnett: “I said that with all due respect to Kevin Garnett, but just saying, yo, this kid can be that special. So if I say Kevin Garnett’s the floor, by no mean am I dimming Kevin Garnett’s light. I’m not capable of dimming Kevin Garnett’s light. He’s Kevin Garnett. What I’m saying is I think this kid can be that good.” (Via @DraymondShow)
Kevin Garnett on Jaylen Brown trade: It’s like Minnesota kicking themselves over the KAT trade. I think Boston gonna look back on this. It’s like when KD left Golden State and then he turned around like what the fu*k, like this one of the moments where you don’t break a great thing up. This is a great thing. They just had to you know and then two, man. Keep it real man those two have been tested through the think time and time. So this is just relationship it ain’t always going to be great. You know what I’m saying? But it would have to be something detrimental for me to break that up.
Fullcourtpass: Giannis Antetokounmpo is open to returning to the Bucks later in his career "That would be awesome if I can go and play and maybe come back. Kevin Garnett did the same thing. I saw this clip of him walking into the [Timberwolves'] arena and [the fans] gave him a standing ovation and people to this day love him, and some people don't always feel—" (h/t @BucksLead)
Damjan Rudez: 'Kevin Garnett didn't just want to beat you; he wanted to destroy you and find that 1% edge by getting inside your head. He demanded that everyone be on his irrational level of intensity, or he had no use for you. I saw him do this to Anthony Bennett in a way that was hard to watch. It wasn't just 'trash talk'; it was a level of verbal aggression involving things you wouldn't even say to an enemy. But that was his power. He would admit that before a game, he would imagine the opponent insulting his family just to get himself into a state of 'choosing violence'. In a quiet gym during a preseason game, the first 20 rows of the audience could hear everything he was saying. He sought to defeat you completely, not just win the game'