Bleacher Report published a very long, very good oral history of Kevin Garnett’s career today, and, yes, there’s a section devoted to his legendary trash talking. While many people — coaches, opponents, teammates — talked about his on-court demeanor, there isn’t a whole lot regarding things he actually said on the floor. Thankfully, Paul Pierce remembers exactly what KG uttered to Joakim Noah during Noah’s rookie year (this was the 2007-08 season, KG’s first year in Boston).
One time, he asked [Joakim] Noah if he could rub through his hair, like a female or something. … And I know that kind of made [Noah] hot. And this was when Noah was a rookie, too. I remember Noah looked up to KG. He was like, “Man, KG, I had your poster on my wall, I looked up to you, man.” And then [Garnett] just said something like that, and was like “F— you, Noah.” I was like, “Whoa.” This kid fresh out of college, looks up to KG, just said he had his poster on the wall, and he tells him that! It crushed him. It crushed Noah.
That’s cold-blooded, man.
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