Garnett makes it to Big Dance
After a dozen years in Minnesota and a trade to Boston, Kevin Garnett has finally made it to the Big Dance. While most Timberwolves fans would have loved to see The Big Ticket reach this goal in a Wolves uniform, I can’t imagine anyone begrudging him this long-awaited career accomplishment.
He’ll be cashing in a lot of flight deals during his series against the LA Lakers, which recalls all the classic Lakers-Celtics matchups of the 1980s, when Wolves GM Kevin McHale was in a Celtics uniform, rather than rebuilding Minnesota’s franchise, as he is these days. Ironically, it was McHale’s trade of Garnett to Boston that reignited the Boston franchise enough to re-fuel this decades-old Finals rivalry.
I’ll be enjoying every minute of it; I long to see Garnett finally prove, on the biggest stage on the NBA, that he and his Celtics are far better than Kobe Bryant and the Lakers.
