As a rookie you probably expect the veteran player to be nice, maybe give you a few pointers. After all, you look up to this player. But Noah’s experience meeting Garnett did not go how he had hoped.
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Paul Pierce, a former teammate, describes how it went down as part of Bleacher Report’s oral history of Garnett’s career.
Why’d you have to do him like that, Kevin?
It’s somewhat surprising to hear Noah being crushed like that. He has a reputation around the league as being quite the trash talker himself. Maybe Garnett’s diss stirred something in him.
