Kevin Garnett

Knuckleheads with Quentin Richardson & Darius Miles

The Players' Tribune

Arts, Comedy, Sports

5 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2022

⏱️ 125 minutes

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Summary

Yeah, yeah, yeah! Knuckleheads is back with a Hall of Fame ep. Number 21, the dude who started the straight-out-of-high school trend, one of the greatest fours ever, The Big Ticket aka Kevin Garnett, joins Q and D. The guys get talkin’ about everything from KG’s growth spurt putting him on the map, to his transitioning from South Carolina to Chicago, to how Isaiah Thomas gave him the blueprint to make the league straight out of high school. They also get into his dominating in Minny, going to Boston and winning a championship, and how much the Hall of Fame meant to him. It’s KG like you’ve never heard before…. Tune in!

Growing up in South Carolina [3:54]
Going to Chicago for senior year [21:14]
Straight to the NBA out of High School [35:29]
All-Star Game at MSG with MJ and Kobe [1:15:05]
2004 MVP season in Minnesota for the T-Wolves [1:29:50]
Traded to the Celtics, teaming up with Paul Pierce and Ray Allen [1:32:35]
Why KG chose number 21 [1:51:09]

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0:00.0	Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know about it. We got another one straight out of high school. You know I'm saying
0:07.0	Q. I know if you know about that, but straight out of high school. We got another one. Man, we appreciate you, bro. No doubt.
0:14.5	Just want to let you know what's up? This might be the biggest one to start as far as transcending this straight out of high school.
0:21.1	Shit. No, this is the biggest thing. This is this is the biggest man. Thank y'all for having me man straight up. I'm huge fans of y'all
0:28.8	straight up of y'all showing anything. Appreciate it. Appreciate it. Yeah. First question we asked everybody. Yeah.
0:35.1	First got to the lead. Who's the first person to bus? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
0:40.9	Uh, the first person to welcome me to the lead as I call it, uh, to bus my ass with big dog.
0:46.5	Oh, Glenn, right. Yeah. Yeah. He straight off coming off getting 89. I don't know if y'all remember big dog asked for 100.
0:54.8	Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Tell them I'm in a word and I'm worth it. No, the old hair's got crazy. Scotty, my everybody made everybody going to
1:02.0	uproar. So again, we're getting here for that. They put it like that. Right. That's all I'm saying. But he was killed. He was a lot of people didn't know that big dog
1:08.3	played full and five in high school. But had really two and three skills. Like he should have been a you should have been a three, but he
1:15.7	he slashed Gary Indiana Gary Indiana. Super G. Super G. You know what I'm saying? So I didn't have any problems with no
1:23.6	lid or none of that conversation when it came to trash talking all that. So I was used to whatever I had just seen him in I. T. That
1:30.3	summer. So I watched him. You know, we get to the league in the cargo program. Yeah, we're. Yeah. My bad Chicago program called I. T. It's like the
1:38.1	it of the if you got some game. You bring your ass in there and you're even going to get booed or they're going to cheer for you.
1:43.4	And he old metal ground and it straight killers in there. Everybody with their guys. Everybody in here. Yeah. So, you know, you got to go
1:51.2	down there. If you in the city you live out here. You in the city. You got to come down. So I had just seen him. You know, we get into
1:56.9	you know, you know, preseason. We got to meet in one of these little towns like I think it was either I was some
2:02.1	in like billions. My channel. So I know you got to get me to give him some. And he was like, yeah, welcome young fella. Man, man, he was just talking
2:09.6	that shit. You know, I had never chased screen. So I played the three. So I'm coming on screens getting hit and he ain't putting it down.
2:16.1	Boom. He going up to dribble pull ups. One like all that shit we ain't used to right. And out there was over. I had like a little 10. And to me,
2:24.1	that was a big deal. Right. So I was, you know, saying he's like, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's going to be every night. Just going to be
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