Kevin Garnett found himself in deep water after trash-talking Michael Jordan in his rookie year and he recently recalled the hilarious encounter.
“We’re in Chicago and it’s my rookie year,” Garnett said on KG Certified. “It’s the second half of the year and you know how you caught on now right? You got your little one two moves and you’re getting them all and you got some confidence.”
During the game, Garnett started trash-talking the great Jordan, which prompted an immediate reaction from him.
“So I’m in that. JR Rider and Michael [Jordan] are having a good game but as we’re coming out the timeout, I’m on y’all. I can’t even explain it, I’m just like ‘Keep killing that n*****, yo.’ And he was like ‘Yeah, you too.’ So as I’m walking off I double back like ‘Keep killing that m****, yo.’ And as I say that, I feel it. Hands on hips, legs locked, and Michael is stared at me for about 15 seconds. I can walk this off, like I don’t even feel it, and play it off and dummy out, but f*** that. Nah, I’m here…. and I can’t even describe the next 6-7 minutes of play. In this next 6-7 minutes of play we down 25 now, it was just at two. Mike had 18 and he had like 40 now. JR and myself we ain’t scored in about four minutes.
“So, I’m on one. Keep killin’ this n**** yo. ‘Okay keep it up.’ So I hear JR go ‘Yeah alright young fella, keep going'”.
“So he tryna get me off, now that I recall it, he was trying to kind of back me off a little bit. I double back, so he go, ‘Hey look Mike, he don’t really know how we,’ I see him and Mike having a conversation, ‘He don’t really know, he excited,’”.
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