Steve Adams: Kevin Garnett’s trash talk makes you question whether playing basketball is worth it

Steve Adams: Kevin Garnett’s trash talk makes you question whether playing basketball is worth it
Dan Feldman Mar 13, 2015, 10:10 AM EDT




Kevin Garnett has a reputation for picking on only smaller players.

Whether or not he actually leans that direction, Garnett affected at least one big man with his intense trash talk.

Thunder center Steven Adams, via Anthony Slater of The Oklahoman:

“KG and (Kendrick Perkins), those two are ridiculous,” Adams said of the legendary smack-talkers. “They make you question, like, why you are playing basketball and stuff. You’re like ‘Why am I doing this?’ It’s really weird, you get depressed.”

Has Garnett ever specifically targeted Adams?

“Thankfully, he doesn’t talk to me,” Adams said. “But he was talking to Serge once and I was like ‘Woah, that’s some stuff.‘ I cannot repeat it.”

How about when Garnett starts talking to himself?

“Yeah, it’s like really weird,” Adams recalled. “He’s talking to himself, but he like makes you feel bad because he mentions you in it. You’re like, ‘What the hell? This is crazy?’ I walk away so I don’t hear it because then, I don’t know, I’ll get real sad.”

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Adams is a confident guy. Now, I really want to hear what got under his skin.

Unfortunately for Adams, if Garnett gets wind of this interview, the veteran will likely have much more to say when the Thunder and Timberwolves meet tonight.



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MY NOTE:  I love New Zealanders.  In all my travels over the years some of the nicest, friendliest, most helpful people I've been with were the Kiwis.  Their country is drop-dead gorgeous too.  Maybe that's why he's having such a hard time wrapping his mind around KG's trash-talking.  Gotta let it roll off your shoulders, big guy, this is the bigs you're playing in and KG is an alpha dog.  As far as KG picking on smaller players, him and Blatche went at it a lot when Blatche was in Washington and Brooklyn before KG got there.  He had a thing going with Kevin Seraphin too.  He pulled a "Lance" by blowing in David West's ear.  He called Charlie Villaneuva a "a cancer patient".  He is famous for mocking Dwight Howard, telling him to "put on your make up, clown!".  I have no idea what Dan Feldman is talking about when he says "Kevin Garnett has a reputation for picking on only smaller players."  KG is as constant as the tide.  He is going to be in your face, talking smack, no matter who you are, all the time.


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I also thought KG was a punk and a bully, though when he was a Celtic it didn't bother me as much because he was "ours," though I thought much of his bravado wasn't needed.

I thought if he had played back in the day when an opposing player could do something about getting yapped at he would have been a lot quieter.