minnpost.com - 11/21/2008
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Producer Jerry Bruckheimer should have been in charge of the Timberwolves, rather than team owner Glen Taylor and VP Kevin McHale, back when Kevin Garnett was traded to Boston in the summer of 2007. Then, perhaps, Garnett's departure from Target Center would have been staged properly.
boston.com - 11/21/2008
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boston.com —
Connected to the Target Center is the NBA
City Restaurant, where you can order the Courtside Burger,...
put your hand inside an imprint of Kobe Bryant's palm in a bronzed basketball, see Yao Ming's game-worn size 18 sneakers, and walk out the back door ...
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Hero is welcome
celticsblog.com - 11/22/2008
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Bumped to the front page. Great job Big
Ticket! -Green17 Tonight KG makes his return to the...
Target Center. To a building that had millions of fans go through the turnstyles during 12 memorable years, almost invariably to see one ...
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What Kevin Garnett meant to Minnesota
celticsgreen.blogspot.com - 11/22/2008
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I think we'll win the game against the
C's because half our team is playing against their...
old team so they will be pretty motivated I hope Al and Love just shut KG down, looking at how KG has been acting since the playoffs last year, and the ...
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Wolves Updates 11-21 Part 2
TWolves Blog - Minnesota Timberwolves News and Articles —
... From Steve Aschburner/SI.com: Wolves rookie Kevin Love, born into a basketball family, has a real grasp of and respect for the game's roots. He mentioned Garnett the other day as the one NBA player he most would like to have on his team (Love must not have gotten the memo from the corporate office). "Everybody knows [he was here]. You can still kind of feel it," the rookie from UCLA said. "People talk about, KG did this and KG did that. I think it will always be like that. He was a great player, a sure-shot Hall of Famer, one of the top 15 or 20 players ...
Friday Mini-Bullets
ESPN.com - TrueHoop —
... Steve Aschburner writes for MinnPost.com about how the Timberwolves are wholly different since the departure of Kevin Garnett. One player who has noticed is Randy Foye: "'One thing I miss about him is, he just let me go. That's why I was so successful my rookie year,' said Foye, who has sputtered in the season-plus since. 'No matter what happened, if I made a mistake, I'd look at him and he'd go [Foye balls up a fist and pumps it], like 'It's all right. Keep your head up.' It makes you feel better. It'd be like that for anyone in their work, if there ...
Player Leadership defined, in the NBA
Khandor's Sports Blog —
... Filed precisely under the category of … Not [really, truly] knowing what you’ve got [exactly] until it’s gone …
A tremendous piece by Steve Aschburner, On the Man, the Mission, and the Meaning, of KG.
Garnett gone from the Wolves without a trace
[Randy] Foye, in overlapping with [Kevin] Garnett for one season here, says he learned plenty from the veteran. It goes beyond the seating protocol on the ...
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Yahoo! Sports - NBA News 11/21/2008
Kevin Garnett's return to Target Center after being traded to Boston was as emotional and riveting as it was short. On a chilly February night last season, Minnesota basketball fans packed the arena once more to cheer their departed hero, giving KG a ...
