Get Over KG...He's over MN
by LV on Nov 5, 2009 1:40 PM CST
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PrintI hated watching the game last night for the very fact that half of the audience was wearing green. Get over it and root for the Wolves. KG has gotten over it. You don't see the Packers cheering Favre...they booed him. We should be booing the Celtics and KG it's basketball help the home team.
The Minnesota crowd - as friendly a group as exists in the NBA - will always love the Timberwolves' first true star, Kevin Garnett. The Target Center fans cheered his introduction as well as his first shot in the Celtics ' 92-90 win last night over the home team. But the forward later made it clear that sentiment matters little in his makeup. "It's easy to come in here and focus, because they don't have any of my old teammates here now," he said. "My history from here has passed. I did take a moment tonight to look around, but there are so many changes here that I can't relate to, so I have no reason to." Garnett (12 points, 11 rebounds) expressed hope that Timberwolves fans will be vocal in their demand for owner Glen Taylor and his new management team to put a winning product on the floor. "There was separation for me the moment I was traded (to the Celtics)," Garnett said. "The guys I had a special relationship with had moved on, and I never looked back." -- Boston Herald
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It's like Garnett is an old girlfriend
who a guy dates for a long time and tries to please, but ultimately the relationship couldn’t last. So, the girlfriend meets some new guy, finally gets married and seems happy. Meanwhile, the Wolves get a new girlfriend (I guess that’d be Al?) who is fine and all, but doesn’t really measure up to the old flame. To make it worse, though, they go on a double date about once a year, and the guy is so into his ex, that he sort of ignores his current girlfriend.
by TimAllen on Nov 5, 2009 3:16 PM CST reply actions 1 recs
Why can't we root for both?
I like the Timberwolves and Garnett. I was at the game. Like a lot of the fans, I cheered for the Wolves and for Garnett whenever he made a good play. At the end of the game, we still wanted the Wolves to win. What’s wrong with that?
If you read the entire article instead of just reading the way the RealGM Wiretap spun it, you’d see that Garnett didn’t say anything disparaging the Wolves. It makes sense that returning here would be less of a big deal since the entire roster is different now, and that’s pretty much all he said.
by John Doe on Nov 5, 2009 4:38 PM CST reply actions 1 recs
We pretty much had to throw him out on his ass to get him to leave. It’s not like he was some malcontent who pouted and whined his way out. Why root against him? Doesn’t make sense to me. That doesn’t mean I’m cheering for Boston, but I don’t see any reason to wish him bad luck.
“THIS IS FOR SOTA!!”
Exactly
He hasn’t done anything in Boston to make me think that he doesn’t still appreciate his fans in Minnesota. Quite the opposite in fact.
I don’t blame him for washing his hands of the organization though. I am with him 100%. I am a Kevin Garnett fan before a Timberwolves fan and I think for good reason.
I was just gonna quote that. Well done
Might I add, he said nothing of the fan base. The organization is entirely different (100% after the Clipper trade saw Smith and Madsen out the door). He owes nothing to the organization. To the fans though, he has said nothing, NOTHING, against them.
The fact that he let us share in his joy moments after accomplishing his dream speaks volumes.
To TimAllen I ask, if your ex-girlfriend got married, would she stand up during the ceremony and say, “THIS IS FOR TIMALLEN!”
Until Blount gets time for us
he isn’t on our team. His jersey might as well say “expiring”
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