Kevin Garnett on 2010-11 season with Celtics: 'If Shaquille O'Neal doesn't get hurt, we win'

A big man from New Zealand describes on The Morning Shift podcast how he pretended not to speak English to escape Kevin Garnett and his famous trash-talk. “My confidence wasn’t that high, so I was not trying to get down even more because he is the man, with all the stuff he talks,” Adams admitted. “He played with Kendrick Perkins before so they started talking trash to each other, as I checked in he started talking to me and I just cut him off with saying I don’t speak English.” “Thank goodness, he did not say anything to me after that. He would have ruined me; I would probably cry,” Adams said, laughing. -via BasketNews / August 8, 2024

Kevin Garnett: Haaaaaa! Gonna catch his ass at LA Fitness in the old head run… 🤣🤣🤝🏾 -via Twitter / August 7, 2024

Stéphane Risacher played for France on various levels 10 times. The global highlight of his basketball career took place during the 2000 Sydney Games. He also was on the floor for perhaps the greatest dunk of all time. Stéphane Risacher played for France when they won a 2000 Olympic silver medal after losing to a USA team that included Vince Carter, Kevin Garnett and other NBA stars in the gold medal game. Risacher also played against USA when Carter stunningly jumped over 7-foot-2 Frenchman Frederic Weis for a remarkable storybook jam. That often replayed dunk came after a wild behind-the-back pass from French forward Yann Bonato to Risacher was stolen. “I had a chance to have a dunk on the other end, but the pass was stolen,” Risacher said with a smile. -via Andscape / July 15, 2024

ClutchPoints: LeBron James: “I just got an NFL offer!” Kevin Hart: “Aren’t you a little too old to play football? They want somebody to run a 40, not somebody that IS 40. How you gonna celebrate a win? You gonna give everybody butterscotch candy?” 😭😂 -via Twitter / August 20, 2024

LeBron James appeared in a sports betting commercial for Draft Kings with comedian legend Kevin Hart. Having Hart in the skit, something funny was bound to happen. True enough, the comedian roasted James’ age and made fun of him for being an old athlete wanting to play for the NFL. The skit started with James receiving an NFL betting offer from Draft Kings, which he blurted out loud. Hart, not knowing what the Los Angeles Lakers star meant, let his intrusive thoughts win and savagely roasted the King. “Aren’t you a little too old to play football? They want somebody to run a 40, not somebody that is 40. When the coach calls your number you’re gonna say ‘G 56! Bingo!’ How you gonna celebrate a win? You gonna give everybody butterscotch candy? Prolly out your pocket with no wrappers on. Just give them raw candy. That’s nasty by the way.” -via Clutch Points / August 20, 2024

It is believed that the Lakers would have reluctantly entertained trade conversations with the Warriors before last February’s trade deadline if James wanted them to seriously engage Golden State on a potential deal. Yet league sources say that the reported talks between the teams at the time never got that far in large part because James’ agent Rich Paul was adamantly opposed to the idea of LeBron James swapping Southern California for Northern California. Sources say Rich Paul implored both teams to scrap the concept — despite some owner-to-owner dialogue between the Warriors’ Joe Lacob and the Lakers’ Jeanie Buss and Green’s determination to lobby James to push for relocation to the Bay Area — largely because he wanted to insulate James from potential backlash over switching teams for the fourth time in his career. -via marcstein.substack.com / August 18, 2024