If Kevin Garnett has something on his mind, he’s going to say it.
On Wednesday, that something involved the Denver Nuggets, who played Garnett’s Minnesota Timberwolves in their second game since the firing of head coach Brian Shaw.
“No,” Garnett said after the game, via The Denver Post, when asked if he thought the Nuggets would come out motivated. “To be honest, they quit on Brian Shaw. I thought they’d quit again. A quitter is a quitter. That was my take on that.
“If you got any kind of self-pride about your future, then you want to anticipate someone playing hard. But, no, I wasn’t really concerned about the Denver Nuggets or how they were going to come out. I was more concerned about us, and us going forward and being better.”
Those were some harsh words from KG, but his prediction wasn’t exactly accurate. The Nuggets took a 17-point lead into halftime and coasted to a 100-85 win over the T’Wolves.
“It’s fun playing like that,” interim head coach Melvin Hunt said, via ESPN.com. “I can’t say that enough. Who wouldn’t want to play that way? Sharing the basketball, teammate gets a basket, teammate gets a dunk. That’s fun basketball.”
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