Kevin Garnett: The Stealth Superstar (With Jackie MacMullan)

Book of Basketball 2.0

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4.8 • 5.7K Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2020

⏱️ 81 minutes

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In the third episode of Season 3, Bill Simmons and Jackie MacMullan explain why Kevin Garnett’s career should have been even greater than it was, compare and contrast him to Tim Duncan, break down what it was like to cover him every day, reveal why he may have been the most secretly impactful player of the past 25 years, and decide where KG ranks in Bill’s Hall of Fame Pyramid. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to season three of the Book Basketball 2.0 podcast.
0:03.2	If you missed the first two seasons where we covered a bunch of awesome players, games,
0:07.7	and even drafts, you can find them all on Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:14.1	We're also brought to you by the Ringer podcast network where we launched Recipe Club with Dave Chang,
0:19.6	Gambler's a new narrative series from Dave Hill and The Ringer Music Show with Charles Holmes.
0:25.2	We launched all of those just in the past 10 days. So check all them out. You can also check out
0:31.0	the rewatchables 8 millimeter. We did that this way. Copie check out the Bill Simmons podcast as well.
0:37.2	If you missed the first two Book of Basketball 2.0 podcast, we did Alan Everson,
0:41.6	we did Julius Irving, and now it's time to do Kevin Garnett. My name is Bill Simmons. This is the Book
0:48.6	Basketball.
1:18.6	The Book of Basketball, Kevin Garnett.
1:33.6	If you love the NBA in the 2000s, you watch Kevin Garnett waste away in Minnesota and wondered
1:39.0	exactly how great is this guy. Nobody knew. Here was one of the best power forwards ever.
1:43.7	The league's best defensive player, one of the fiercest competitors in any sport.
1:48.5	And he didn't guarantee you 50 wins or a second round of appearance.
1:53.0	Is that car nuts fault? What did it mean to be a superstar anyway?
1:56.6	His rival, Tinducan, blessed with impactful teammates, a Hall of Fame coach and a savvy front
2:01.4	office. Poor KG had nothing other than the first wave of advanced metric nerds vouching for his
2:07.1	dominance. And by the mid 2000s, his NBA biological clock was ticking and he knew it.
2:14.1	Garnett's famed intensity slowly morphed into despair and frustration with a whiff of,
2:19.2	I may kill everyone on my team tonight and thrown it just for good measure. And yet,
2:23.8	he wouldn't ditch Minnesota and demand a trade, Jack DeBig Bowen. We were not in the player
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