Kevin Garnett discovered himself in deep water after trash-talking Michael Jordan in his rookie yr and he lately recalled the hilarious encounter.
“We’re in Chicago and it’s my rookie yr,” Garnett mentioned on KG Licensed. “It’s the second half of the yr and you know the way you caught on now proper? You bought your infant two strikes and also you’re getting all of them and you bought some confidence.”
In the course of the recreation, Garnett began trash-talking the nice Jordan, which prompted an instantaneous response from him.
“So I’m in that. JR Rider and Michael [Jordan] are having recreation however as we’re popping out the timeout, I’m on y’all. I can’t even clarify it, I’m identical to ‘Maintain killing that n*****, yo.’ And he was like ‘Yeah, you too.’ In order I’m strolling off I double again like ‘Maintain killing that m****, yo.’ And as I say that, I really feel it. Arms on hips, legs locked, and Michael is stared at me for about 15 seconds. I can stroll this off, like I don’t even really feel it, and play it off and dummy out, however f*** that. Nah, I’m right here…. and I can’t even describe the subsequent 6-7 minutes of play. On this subsequent 6-7 minutes of play we down 25 now, it was simply at two. Mike had 18 and he had like 40 now. JR and myself we ain’t scored in about 4 minutes.
“So, I’m on one. Maintain killin’ this n**** yo. ‘Okay stick with it.’ So I hear JR go ‘Yeah alright younger fella, maintain going’”.
“So he tryna get me off, now that I recollect it, he was attempting to sort of again me off slightly bit. I double again, so he go, ‘Hey look Mike, he don’t actually know the way we,’ I see him and Mike having a dialog, ‘He don’t actually know, he excited,’”.
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