3) Kevin Garnett at his rawest.
Garnett’s the unique combination of impossible to crack and raw on-the-surface emotion: he’ll string together words and sentences straight out of Dharma teachings and then curse himself out for a bad play. There’s no cracking him because he is all cracks.
You know how coaches burst with cliches about how some guys are the hardest workers in the world and would go to the bottom of the ocean if it helped their team? That’s what they say about players they wish were Kevin Garnett. All he wanted was the ball, and with no regard for his future, he damn well got it. He found the Titanic in the twilight of his career and wouldn’t let go of the rudder.
