“I didn’t know that,” Garnett said. “But who cares?”
Clearly not Garnett, who received a ton of love from the Target Center fans. He wanted to let everyone know that he really appreciated it, too, which I thought was classy. But it’s easy to be magnanimous when you’re a member of the championship Boston Celtics.
Veteran guard Kevin Ollie missed his second consecutive game because of an injured calf.
“[Jefferson] is a terrific kid, a joy to coach,” Rivers said before the game. “If you look at where he was when he started with us, and where he is now, it’s awesome to see. He’s become one of the top-scoring bigs in our league. I feel part of it as far as our relationship, but players have to do the required work to be great. All of us give them a list to work on, and Al did all that. It was that work in the darkness, by himself, that’s what makes guys better.
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