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2016-17 NBA Thread: Finals are over, please go away (4 Viewers)

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Notorious T.R.E. said:
Probably a decent chance you can go check out seats with a salesperson too, no?
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No doubt. just being lazy. I was down there last night and checked out the end seats and LOVED them (but I was watching hockey). So I was all in and then had a moment of clarity on the drive home about the differences in the sports. 

 
Buddy Ball 2K3 said:
No doubt. just being lazy. I was down there last night and checked out the end seats and LOVED them (but I was watching hockey). So I was all in and then had a moment of clarity on the drive home about the differences in the sports. 
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Hockey end zone seats (I assume 117-9 area) are much better than basketball ones in general.  Basketball courts are short and your much further from the action than you think especially as you go further up.  

 
Thanks guys. Going to pull the trigger on the 2nd level center court seats. I really just want to get in so that I have the option for playoff tickets. +Thinking

 
Buddy Ball 2K3 said:
Anyone attend an NBA game with seats in the lower level that are up and behind the backboard?  Thoughts?? Looking into getting season tickets and those are fairly cheap. 
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I went to a Sixers' game there last year and I would not buy season tickets there.  It was cool to be close enough to get a feel, but not a great experience for really watching.  They are folding chairs and I think because there is not enough rise between each row, it is hard to see over people and there's always a lot commotion.  

 
Buddy Ball 2K3 said:
No doubt. just being lazy. I was down there last night and checked out the end seats and LOVED them (but I was watching hockey). So I was all in and then had a moment of clarity on the drive home about the differences in the sports. 
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I am just on the Sixers' e-mail list and I get detailed marketing e-mails all the time.  I'm sure if they would give you the Louisville recruit treatment if they thought you were serious.

 
Abraham said:
Of course.  But the number of teams that wouldn't fall drastically without their main star is pretty small.  OKC loses Westbrook?  Same thing
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I don't think there are that many that would go from 40ish wins to bottom 5. OKC and HOU are the biggest ones that would be hurt. Maybe if Chicago loses Butler or Portland loses Dam? Indy would be 30ish without George. Washington could tread water without one of Wall or Beal. Detroit would hang around without Drummond. Minny, Char, Dallas, Atlanta and the Bucks don't have the single star. Any teams above their have the depth to survive. 

 
Bosh is my absolute favorite athlete that has never played for a team I support.  KG has to be one of the 3-5 best players of the post-Jordan era.  (Probably) seeing them both leave the game on the same day is a huge bummer, sucks that it's gonna get buried under weekend football

 
Even though KG/Duncan/Bosh are all considered PFs, I think you could play all 3 together and make it work.  Especially at their peaks.  Duncan at C, KG basically at SF, Bosh at PF with range to 3.  Would be fun to watch.

 
Bosh not fighting the failed physical. Guess Miami comes out smelling like a rose. 

Lottery pick this year and likely next before they are dearth for a good long while. They have to tank and try to go young. 

 
rodg12 said:
Even though KG/Duncan/Bosh are all considered PFs, I think you could play all 3 together and make it work.  Especially at their peaks.  Duncan at C, KG basically at SF, Bosh at PF with range to 3.  Would be fun to watch.
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KG played a lot of SF before he filled out.  He was a good enough dribbler and passer to send plays through him - it was easy for him to throw entry passes from the wing.

Defensively, watching KG guard other SFs was great.  He could play a step off his man because he had the arms of Inspector Gadget.  And when the shot went up, he could swoop in over the pile and be a factor on the glass.   

All that early experience playing on the perimeter allowed Flip to install junk defenses unique to KG's skill set.  The 2004 MIN team that got to the conference finals would switch up to a weird 1-2-2/2-3 hybrid "plunger" zone where KG would engage the PG out top and try to force the ball to one side, then "plunge" down the middle of the lane after the first pass.  He could cover so much ground, he could pop back out top to contest a jumper out front, and also grabbed a ton of uncontested rebounds flying back in after the shot went up.

 
rodg12 said:
Even though KG/Duncan/Bosh are all considered PFs, I think you could play all 3 together and make it work.  Especially at their peaks.  Duncan at C, KG basically at SF, Bosh at PF with range to 3.  Would be fun to watch.
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The more I think about this, the better I think it would work.  Duncan is no stranger to action away from the basket.  How many times did we see Young Duncan and Peak Duncan set a pick at the elbow, fade out of the way to the wing, and bank in a 15-17 footer? A million?

There was a year early in Duncan's career where SAS would play Robinson, Duncan, and Perdue together.  Robinson would take the best low-post scorer, Perdue would take the guy who moved the least, and Duncan would take the slowest of the remaining three.  This led to some unorthodox matchups like Mark Jackson trying to back Duncan down and fake him to one side, but fun to watch.  Also helped Duncan out a lot later when he moved inside and could switch on high pick-and-rolls thanks to his experience chasing around smaller players.

 
If you add up the big five counting stats (points, rebounds, assists, steals, blocks) and combine into a single sum for each of Garnett, Duncan, and Bryant:

Garnett: 50074

Duncan: 49857

Bryant: 48580

Amazing how close all three of those numbers are for three 20-year pros.  

 
Bruce Dickinson said:
KG played a lot of SF before he filled out.  He was a good enough dribbler and passer to send plays through him - it was easy for him to throw entry passes from the wing.

Defensively, watching KG guard other SFs was great.  He could play a step off his man because he had the arms of Inspector Gadget.  And when the shot went up, he could swoop in over the pile and be a factor on the glass.   

All that early experience playing on the perimeter allowed Flip to install junk defenses unique to KG's skill set.  The 2004 MIN team that got to the conference finals would switch up to a weird 1-2-2/2-3 hybrid "plunger" zone where KG would engage the PG out top and try to force the ball to one side, then "plunge" down the middle of the lane after the first pass.  He could cover so much ground, he could pop back out top to contest a jumper out front, and also grabbed a ton of uncontested rebounds flying back in after the shot went up.
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Zach Lowe tweeted today that there's a strong argument for KG as the best defender ever.  I can see that.  Just a freak of nature on that end that could do so many things together that no one else can match.  Such a unique talent.  Glad I got to watch him play.

 
rodg12 said:
Zach Lowe tweeted today that there's a strong argument for KG as the best defender ever.  I can see that.  Just a freak of nature on that end that could do so many things together that no one else can match.  Such a unique talent.  Glad I got to watch him play.
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I know my opinions of KG are incredibly biased, so it's tough for me to talk about him objectively in a historical context.  I saw him play in person over 200 times, at least twice that on TV.  I do think he's the greatest defensive player in the history of the game, but I freely admit that is not the result of some objective analysis or quantitative algorithm.  He's the best help defender I've ever seen: never seen his peer at helping out anywhere in the halfcourt from anywhere on the halfcourt.  He was an extraordinary rebounder at both ends who was really good at controlling misses that took weird hops: if a shot bounced on the rim at least twice and bounced out, KG would pull it down guaranteed because no one could match his combo of quick second jump and long arms.  He was a good shotblocker, but he would rather make the player pull it down and pass away than wait for the shooting motion and contest it.  That said, he has no peer at blocking shots after the whistle: he had a thing about opponents taking practice shots right after the whistle or trying to draw a shooting foul by putting up a quick one after a foul on the floor, and would go way out of his way to swat those away.

My favorite regular season memory of KG's defense was against the Bulls in the 1998 season.  This game.  CHI was on their way to a three-peat, had a feeling this was it for Jordan.  I was in the 8th row right behind the Wolves bench.  When Jordan checked back in for the fourth-quarter stretch run, Flip switched Garnett over to him.  And it was the first time I saw a man contain Michael Jordan on the offensive end since Dean Smith.  Jordan was mainly a midrange player at this point, but his last big trick was applying low-post footwork techniques on perimeter defenders and faking them out of position without dribbling.  Well, MJ couldn't get KG to bite on anything, and shooting contested midrange jumpers over him was a fool's errand.  Jordan missed a bunch of shots down the stretch, finished the night 11-for-28, and the Wolves, for the first time in franchise history, defeated Michael Jordan.  I've never been as emotional about a regular season pro sports game since.  

So KG broke in as a SF, won a league MVP as a PF, and won a title as C, and I have this intense memory about the night he made the best SG ever blink.

I won't even pretend to claim objectivity, but yeah, I think he's the best defender ever.                      

 
One more random KG memory not a lot people probably know...

About a year or two into his career, Garnett had his first run-in with the law as a pro.  It happened right as a lot of NBA "thug life" stories were breaking out, and the high volume of children NBA players had fathered out of wedlock was starting to be found out.  When I first heard KG was also in trouble with the law, I freaked.  

And then I found out the nature of the crime.

Garnett and KG Entourage MVP "Bug" (in the Nike commercial where Garnett playing foosball against Brandi Chastain, "Bug" is KG's partner in the match) got pulled over in the west metro.  For driving their go-carts too fast in their neighborhood.  KG and Bug received tickets, and were asked to slow it down.  They were 19 or 20 at the time.  GB 'em. 

 
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Emptying the notebook on KG.  Apologies in advance for the self-indulgent behavior.

The regime change in MIN happened at just the right time.  The retiring GM, Jack McCloskey, has confirmed had he stuck around one more year he would have drafted Ed O'Bannon with that 1.05 pick McHale/Saunders used to draft Garnett.  Trader Jack said he didn't have the patience to wait and see if the high school kid would become a real player.

So, sorry Grizzlies fans.  You were that close to KG instead of taking Big Country Reeves at 1.06.

BTW, had a team traded up to take Garnett, the Wolves would not have taken Rasheed Wallace, who went 1.04 that year.  McHale didn't like Rasheed's attitude or body language.  They had a deal in place with DAL, where the Mavericks would have traded their 1.12 and Popeye Jones for the 1.05 and taken Rasheed.  The Wolves would have taken Michael Finley at 1.12.  Finley slid to PHX at 1.21 on draft night, but MIN had Finley 8th on their board and were pretty sure he would still be around at 1.12.

 
We're pretty sure Garnett holds the NBA record for most utterances of "M*****F*****" on the court during games in a career.  This record might extend to all pro sports, and possibly all of civilization since the earth cooled. There are many, MANY KG highlights the team could never use in hype videos and commercials because it was too easy to read his lips.

 
There's a closeup of Garnett about to shoot a free throw that the team used for years in promos.  He backs away from the line and points at the "TIMBERWOLVES" part of his jersey a couple times.  It's a great video of the franchise player highlighting the team nickname.  But in context, he was pissed at the crowd when he did it.

Minnesotans as a group are great people and there are many days when I miss living among them.  However, they are extraordinarily provincial, almost to the point of self-parody.  

The video clip I referenced happened during garbage time.  The Wolves were way ahead.  But local hero Sam Jacobson checked in for the first time for the opponent.  Jacobson is an Minnesota high school legend who started on some really good Gophers teams before warming NBA benches for a few years.  Anyway, Jacobson checks in and the crowd goes NUTS for the local kid getting some playing time.  IN response, KG backed away from the foul line and pointed at his jersey, reminding the crowd which team they were there to root for.

 
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Best game I ever saw KG play was 2004, second round game 7 against the Kings. The knock on him at that point was that he wasn't assertive enough to carry an offense but he just dominated every aspect of that game. 32 points, 21 rebounds, 5 blocks, 4 steals and he even hit an uncharacteristic dagger three pointer from 3-4 feet behind the line IIRC. That Kings team was a shell of their 2002 selves at that point but they were still a pretty good team, while KG had virtually no help. 

 
thecatch said:
Best game I ever saw KG play was 2004, second round game 7 against the Kings. The knock on him at that point was that he wasn't assertive enough to carry an offense but he just dominated every aspect of that game. 32 points, 21 rebounds, 5 blocks, 4 steals and he even hit an uncharacteristic dagger three pointer from 3-4 feet behind the line IIRC. That Kings team was a shell of their 2002 selves at that point but they were still a pretty good team, while KG had virtually no help. 
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That game is the one most NBA historians will point to as KG's greatest game.  Sam Cassell complimented KG really well all season but back problems haunted Cassell in the playoffs and he wasn't full speed.  Latrell Sprewell came in humbled and willing to play defense, but wore down during the postseason.  Wally Szczerbiak could create his own offense but couldn't guard a chair and never quite gelled with KG on the court or in the locker room.  By Wolves historical standards this roster was loaded, but was difficult to think of it as a title contender when Cassell got hurt.  

But yeah, that Game 7 KG out the team on his back and willed it to victory.  Still the biggest win in the history of the franchise.  

IIRC, Webber had a decent look at a three-pointer at the buzzer to tie it, but that was a little out of his range and he had to rush the shot a little.

 
Bruce Dickinson said:
That game is the one most NBA historians will point to as KG's greatest game.  Sam Cassell complimented KG really well all season but back problems haunted Cassell in the playoffs and he wasn't full speed.  Latrell Sprewell came in humbled and willing to play defense, but wore down during the postseason.  Wally Szczerbiak could create his own offense but couldn't guard a chair and never quite gelled with KG on the court or in the locker room.  By Wolves historical standards this roster was loaded, but was difficult to think of it as a title contender when Cassell got hurt.  

But yeah, that Game 7 KG out the team on his back and willed it to victory.  Still the biggest win in the history of the franchise.  

IIRC, Webber had a decent look at a three-pointer at the buzzer to tie it, but that was a little out of his range and he had to rush the shot a little.
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Webber was crap at that point post-microfracture, unfortunately, and even worse when he came back he started butting heads with Peja (who was a borderline MVP candidate that year) for alpha status. But, the Kings probably still had most of the best players in that series. 

 
thecatch said:
Webber was crap at that point post-microfracture, unfortunately, and even worse when he came back he started butting heads with Peja (who was a borderline MVP candidate that year) for alpha status. But, the Kings probably still had most of the best players in that series. 
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Been texting all night with Wolves fans.  This game came up, and Webber's shot at the buzzer.  Best comment, "it was some dude in a Webber jersey not Chris Webber"

 
Bruce Dickinson said:
There's a closeup of Garnett about to shoot a free throw that the team used for years in promos.  He backs away from the line and points at the "TIMBERWOLVES" part of his jersey a couple times.  It's a great video of the franchise player highlighting the team nickname.  But in context, he was pissed at the crowd when he did it.

Minnesotans as a group are great people and there are many days when I miss living among them.  However, they are extraordinarily provincial, almost to the point of self-parody.  

The video clip I referenced happened during garbage time.  The Wolves were way ahead.  But local hero Sam Jacobsen checked in for the first time for the opponent.  Jacobsen is an Minnesota high school legend who started on some really good Gophers teams before warming NBA benches for a few years.  Anyway, Jacobsen checks in and the crowd goes NUTS for the local kid getting some playing time.  IN response, KG backed away from the foul line and pointed at his jersey, reminding the crowd which team they were there to root for.
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JacobsOn.  

 
Knowing what i know now.. if chance take Tim Duncan or KG .. id take KG

 His playoff effort vs lakers was phenomenal where he literally had them on brink by himself.  I Iust cant say enough  :no:

 
I feel KG has been part of my whole life (I was a junior in high school when he was drafted) yet I can't come up with anything like Ferris has here.  Keep going good buddy.  I know my parents have a framed picture from the newspaper of KG after he was drafted that he signed at a Target signing event my mom went to.  It's been hanging on their wall for 21 years, autographed To: "our last name".  Pretty cool.

I remember my buddy and I started out "how could you draft a high school player" and eventually got to "man they have to draft this guy" and we watched the draft and were ecstatic.

 
Frostillicus said:
JacobsOn.  
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####.  ####.  ####.  It looked right, but I wasn't sure.  Should've looked it up.  I can spell "Szczerbiak" without any second-guessing, but blew that one.

I promised my 14-year-old I would take her to something called "Panic! At The Disco" next year.  One of the show dates is 3/12 in St. Paul.  If it's a go and you're in town that weekend, Zantigo Chilitos on me.  Maybe a meat raffle.
   

 
Bruce Dickinson said:
####.  ####.  ####.  It looked right, but I wasn't sure.  Should've looked it up.  I can spell "Szczerbiak" without any second-guessing, but blew that one.

I promised my 14-year-old I would take her to something called "Panic! At The Disco" next year.  One of the show dates is 3/12 in St. Paul.  If it's a go and you're in town that weekend, Zantigo Chilitos on me.  Maybe a meat raffle.
   
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You've been threatening this for years.  

 
Frostillicus said:
I feel KG has been part of my whole life (I was a junior in high school when he was drafted) yet I can't come up with anything like Ferris has here.  Keep going good buddy.  I know my parents have a framed picture from the newspaper of KG after he was drafted that he signed at a Target signing event my mom went to.  It's been hanging on their wall for 21 years, autographed To: "our last name".  Pretty cool.

I remember my buddy and I started out "how could you draft a high school player" and eventually got to "man they have to draft this guy" and we watched the draft and were ecstatic.
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I moved to Minnesota just in time for the Great Minnesota Sports Renaissance.  The Timberwolves were starting up, Target Center getting built, Hazeltine went big-time, Clem Haskins revived The Barn, a high school third baseman named Chris Weinke hit an undersized lefty's circle change about 450 feet... then there was that stretch where the Twin Cities had the Stanley Cup Finals, US Open, World Series, Super Bowl, and Final Four in less than 12 months.  So much fun.  

But yeah, KG is the enduring figure.  I'm glad he came back and finished his career with the Wolves, even if it was token minutes on a building team.  I have no idea what his future plans are - he seems too acerbic to run a bench, don't recall him saying he wanted to be a GM or the face of an ownership group.    

 
The moment I realized Garnett was a national figure was when he joined the Fun Police.  

The Nike "Fun Police" was an ad series where NBA stars set people straight on the joy of teamwork and hustle.  They would bust in to playground players' houses and arrest them for ballhogging and loafing on defense.  And harass refs who called ticky-tack fouls and didn't let the players who truly love the game to play it the way it was meant to be played.  There was one great spot where Garnett, Jason Kidd, and Gary Payton arrested a kid for shooting every time he touched the ball.  Kidd found a basketball in the player's closet that only had one person's fingerprints on it.  "The ground doesn't touch the ball as much as you do".  

Seeing KG in the same ad with national stars like Kidd and Payton, and positioning KG as a hard-working two-way player?  I took pride in it.  My guy KG was a star now!  
The Wolves hadn't had a real star yet.  Isaiah "JR" Rider got a little national attention for winning the Slam Dunk but he didn't play enough defense to become a true star.  And he was a ####.  The Wolves had the worst record the year Shaq and Mourning were in the draft, but got ####ed in the lottery and had to settle for Christian Laettner.  Laettner could score, but couldn't play at NBA speed.  And he was a ####.    
But KG... KG you could root for.  

The first Wolves home playoff game that spring had several cosplay Fun Police members in the stands: yellow trenchcoats, goggles, gloves, the works.   

 
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Garnett is probably the only player of his era to be listed shorter than his actual height.

In NBA materials, there's no rule or law that our listed height and weight have to be accurate.  Most players go with at least their height in shoes, maybe an inch taller.  They will list a weight heavier than truth early in their career, and usually go lighter than truth in their 30s.     

Predraft 1995, Garnett he measured 6'11" without shoes, and weighed 215 pounds.  It's actually quite remarkable he didn't miss a game his senior year from a stiff wind keeping him out of the gym.  But since he was a high school kid, he wasn't done growing.  He probably topped out at 7'0.5" or 7'1" without shoes, 7'2" or so with them.  But he was always listed at 6'11".  

This was purposeful from Garnett.  He wanted to play all over the court and show he was a complete player.  He was worried if he got listed at 7'0" or taller he would get stuck playing center and have to stay around the basket.  But if he was 6'11", well then he could play forward and go out to the high post and the wing and pass and dribble and stuff.

McHale and Saunders joked many times that Garnett should be listed at "six-foot-thirteen" as a compromise to meet Garnett's demands without deceiving the public.  But it turned out no one really gave a ####.  So KG goes down in history as 6'11".  His Basketball-Reference page even has him at 6'11".   

 
I was at the draft in Toronto when KG was drafted, in the front row.  I went with a bunch of Michigan fans, and one guy brought a bunch of white boards and a bunch of markers.  He made a sign that read, "KG, if you can read this, go to UM.  The r was backwards and the M was their logo.  There was always a rumour that this ended up in some magazine with a picture of KG crying.  So if someone runs into him, apologize for me please.

 
One story, which may or may not be true I can't find anything on it right now because drunk, is that KG entered the draft because he couldn't qualify for college.  He took the test again, SAT I assume, and ended up with a qualifying score high enough to get into school but was far enough along in the process and looking like a lottery pick so he stayed in the draft, even though he could have pulled out and gone to Kentucky (I think was his preference?).  The high schoolers in the draft would have happened eventually, but I wonder how much longer it would have taken if he didn't decide to stay in the draft.

 
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Garnett wore #21 in high school and with the Wolves.  When he chose it, his favorite player was St. John's forward Malik Sealy, who also wore #21.

After the 1998 lockout, the Wolves had needed guards and high character.  Stephon Marbury tore the team apart and then got traded away.  Fan favorite Doug West and his drinking problem got traded away as well.  Garnett's giant contract extension was the straw the broke the camel's back and triggered the lockout.  

Enter Malik Sealy.  Good guy.  High motor.  Free agent.  Cheap.  

Sealy struggled in the lockout-shortened 1999 season, as most players did.  But he found his groove in 2000, took the starting SG job from Anthony Peeler, and became KG's best friend on the team.  Garnett offered to give #21 back to Sealy, but Sealy instead took #2, in honor of his son's birthday.  The Wolves had a 50-win season, a competitive playoff series, finally got the locker room lawyers out, and had an identity around the nonstop motors of Garnett, Sealy, and Bobby Jackson, and the sharpshooting of Terrell Brandon and Wally Szczerbiak.  They had an complex offense that whipped the ball around, and a tenacious defense that could take it away.  2001 was going to be a big leap.

And then Malik Sealy died in a car crash.  Hit head-on by a drunk driver driving the wrong ####### direction on Hwy 100.  While going home to the suburbs after Garnett's downtown birthday party.

There was always something a bit different about KG after Sealy died.  Maybe the attention of the big contract got to him.  Maybe he didn't know what to do about his inner circle after Marbury betrayed him and then Sealy died.  I don't know.  But there was a little more surly and a bit more venom from KG after that.  KG was always a bit guarded and slow to trust people, but more overt hostility started leaking out after Sealy was gone.  Garnett never really accepted Szczerbiak as a teammate and wingman when they should have meshed well.  I always thought that was a problem Sealy could have fixed.

Anyway, the Wolves retired #2 even though Sealy only played two seasons with the Wolves.  And when Garnett got traded to Brooklyn, he wore #2 in memory of Sealy, a Bronx native who played college ball in Queens.

Don't drink and drive.  Please.  Pretty please.  With sugar on it.

 
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One story, which may or may not be true I can't find anything on it right now because drunk, is that KG entered the draft because he couldn't qualify for college.  He took the test again, SAT I assume, and ended up with a qualifying score high enough to get into school but was far enough along in the process and looking like a lottery pick so he stayed in the draft, even though he could have pulled out and gone to Kentucky (I think was his preference?).  The high schoolers in the draft would have happened eventually, but I wonder how much longer it would have taken if he didn't decide to stay in the draft.
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That's pretty much how it happened.  Senior year of high school was when Garnett and Marbury became really tight, even though they lived in different states.  They talked every night about basketball, music, recruiting rumors with their HS class...  It was a big celebration for them when Marbury hit an SAT qualifier.  He was a New York kid who idolized Kenny Anderson and wanted to play for Cremins at Georgia Tech just like Kenny Anderson did, and now he could go play for Tech.  Garnett's academics improved a ton his senior year - had he transferred to Farragut as a sophomore or even a junior, IMO he would have hit a SAT qualifier easily - but he had too much catching up to do and didn't qualify until the last moment.  The popular chatter was that Garnett would have gone to Michigan - big fan of how Steve Fisher used Webber's passing and dribbling skills instead of anchoring him to the blocks, but Garnett has said in interviews that he would have gone to Maryland had he gotten his academics worked out earlier.  

Like you said, Garnett was pretty far along in the draft process, looked like a lottery pick, was going to be allowed into the draft without a lawsuit, and after all the contact his family had with NBA teams exploring draft options there were doubts the NCAA would certify him as an amateur.  

 
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Garnett has a devastatingly accurate Dikembe Mutombo impression.  If an NBA video game has a custom team option, Garnett would put Mutombo on his team so he could do his Mutombo impression while playing.  His video game Mutombo would block your video game player's shot and it was on... "YOU CANNOT CLIMB MOUNT MUTOMBO!!!"

He mostly kept this quiet, for a while only other NBA players and his entourage knew about it.  But it came up once during one of those junk trivia interviews a local station did to air during halftime of a local broadcast.  Garnett gave in, grabbed his lips, pressed them way out and yelled, "I AM DIKEMBE MUTOMBO!  DENVER NOT GIVE ME ENOUGH MONEY SO I GO TO ATLANTA!!!"

 
On a weekend where both KG and Bosh are likely to retire or step down, just swept under the rug for NFL highlights and college football. 

-The Miami Heat went on a journey 6 years ago that will end with Wade leaving town and Bosh not physically able to go on anymore on an NBA court, that's just wild. 

-Maybe the Heat run was in fact one mighty fail. 4 trips to the Finals, 2 Titles but it was suppose to be a Dynasty Run and that did not happen. 

 
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The Wolves' most diehard celebrity fan is R&B songwriter/producer "Jimmy Jam" Harris.  Jimmy Jam has had a seat in the Nicholson section pretty much since the franchise started, and actually tried to organize a group to buy the team when the founders wanted to get out of the pro sports business.  

KG and Jimmy Jam became friends, both had houses out by Lake Minnetonka.  In fact, when Garnett's agent closed the deal on  KG's monster extension in 1997 that at the time was the biggest guaranteed contract in North American team sport, KG was at Jimmy Jam's house.

And that presented a slight inconvenience.  

Garnett's agent wanted KG to come downtown immmediately and sign the contract before the media found out about it or owner Glen Taylor changed this mind.  But KG was listening to some tracks from the new Janet Jackson album Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis were producing and didn't want to leave.  So KG asked his agent if this could wait;  he could come in first thing in the morning and sign the extension then.  

I came to accept early in KG's career that his life was going to be much different than mine.  I've never been offered $126MM guaranteed.  I've never had the chance to listen to a Janet Jackson album before it was released.  But maybe that's because I don't have the cojones to make the money wait until I was done listening to those unreleased Janet tracks.

 
A detective from the LAPD has confirmed that there is an active criminal investigation against Derrick Rose.
The original lawsuit was civil and just for money, but this latest report means that Rose could be in serious trouble. Rose’s attorney Mark Baute had previously alleged that Bradan Anand (victim's attorney) was lying about an active criminal investigation in order to extort a settlement from Rose, but that's not the case. Rose will be speaking at the Knicks' media day on Monday, so we should hear more details soon. The trial will begin on Oct. 4, meaning Rose could miss several preseason games if he doesn't settle the suit.

 
 
Source: Think Progress

 
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