Book of Basketball 2.0: Kevin Garnett: The Stealth Superstar

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https://www.theringer.com/2020/11/25/21720517/kevin-garnett-the-stealth-superstar

If you're looking for a good podcast to pass an 1 hour 23 minutes, from a few days ago, with Jackie MacMullan. Bill Simmons always is an entertaining listen, but there are lots of great stories about KG.

Here's a couple of the stories... KG was in Boston after coming back from the knee injury, wanting to go into practice. Doc told KG to take it easy and he's not putting him out there with the knee as it is. Poe was in. KG was on the sidelines mimmicking all the plays Poe was involved in, including posting up, and even ran down the floor faster than Poe. Doc had to call practice. Another one, Flip was trying to prep the Wolves on the other team's offensive sets, involving KG as the primary defender of the passer. KG kept deflecting the pass rather than letting Flip pass the ball to initiate the walkthrough. Flip told him he needs to initiate the offense and KG said no, he's gotta defend. Classic stuff. Miss that guy on this team.

They also say that Steve Nash said the Suns had a trade in place to trade Amare and Marion for KG, but it was nixed by the Suns owner because of the cost (would have put them in the luxury tax I assume). Nash and KG would have been an amazing duo.

It starts out with some KG clips, gave me chills. Good stuff if you've got the time.