Kevin Garnett has the opportunity to make NBA History by simply participating next season. 22 is the magic number in this case because 21 is the current record of most seasons played by a player, Robert Parish and Kevin Willis currently hold the record but KG is 1 season away.
But Garnett is unsure about it. Sure I’d assume he’d love to own the record outright, but he’s unsure about his physical capabilities. He doesn’t know if he can take the grind.
As he has done for most of his career, Garnett, who turned 40 in May, has gone off the official grid and even has the Timberwolves’ honchos guessing. Tom Thibodeau, Minnesota’s new coach and president of basketball operations, has spoken to the 7-foot power forward since being hired after the season but has not gotten a definitive answer. The same goes for owner Glen Taylor, who said Wednesday in Las Vegas he had dinner with Garnett about a month ago.
“I just asked him, ‘Kevin, what are you going to do?’ His answer was, ‘I’d really like to play next year ‘cuz I’d like to go out knowing we got into the playoffs,’ ” Taylor said.
“Then he said, ‘I don’t know if I can.’
“I asked him, ‘What does that mean?’ And he said, ‘I don’t know.’
“So I asked the question but I didn’t get an answer that helped me. Yes, theoretically, he’d like to play. But he has some doubts of his knees holding up. I believe he told me exactly the truth.“
I don’t know about you but I want to see Kevin Garnett finishing his final year flexing and being the passionate player he has been since day 1, not on the floor clutching his knees or sitting on the bench getting his leg rubbed.
I hope he can make the record happen but if he can’t do it he can’t do it. Nevertheless he’s a Hall Of Fame lock.
