Kevin Garnett
Kevin Garnett
Kevin Maurice Garnettis an American professional basketball player for the Minnesota Timberwolves of the National Basketball Association. He plays the power forward and center positions. In high school, Garnett was a 1995 McDonald's All-American at Farragut Career Academy and won a national player of the year award. Garnett entered the 1995 NBA draft, where he was selected with the fifth overall pick by the Minnesota Timberwolves and became the first NBA player drafted directly out of high school in 20...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBasketball Player
Date of Birth19 May 1976
CountryUnited States of America
I wasn't going to feed into what you guys wanted me to say,
We have to hang on to our leads. We give them away like they're candy. It's frustrating. You have to understand the personnel. We have a young team. Our guys haven't been in these situations, and they're learning.
We've got a lot of young guys, and I'm trying to help teach them and get a lot of the new guys some confidence. We just have to come in and work every day and make each other better.
They're tights. It's no different from a knee brace. It's no different from a calf brace. It's no different from an arm brace. You think guys are wearing those (things) just to wear them? Man, them (things) keep you able to be who you are, and mobile and agile.
He taught me to keep the guys together. The way you win championships is the chemistry you form with them off the field.
I don't want to call it babysitting. I don't like always having to go there. We're professionals, and we're all men. It was just a select few (joking around after the game) but it is a team. I don't like to have to be responsible for the unknown, making sure guys are ready and then having to worry about my own personal ? that's not what I'm here for. I won't play that role.
I've never been an individual guy. I never cared about the accolades. I've always been driven by the competition and the learning process.
I should have had a little more control than that.
I've never had (a) beef with World. Personally, we were teammates. We understood that. I understood that. As the primary (option) on this team, I felt it was my responsibility to have the ball come through me, and I consolidated and distributed to everybody. I don't know if World was bothered by that.
The zone tonight was a big problem. The zone slowed us down and made us stagnant and not as aggressive.
Even though we've been losing and going through hard times, we've kept our morale up.
The third quarter has been our Achilles heel pretty much the whole year.
I've never been opposed to a reunion. I've always let him know that I'm going to be in Minnesota, and he's always let me know he's going to be in New York. So I guess we've got a problem. Different parts of the world, dealing with the map is probably the issue at this point.
I've never been a part of something like this before, so I didn't know what to expect. I was not here for anything else but the people. This weekend was the most memorable weekend I have ever had.