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Kevin Garnett was one of the great rivals of the best period of Pau Gasol. The power forward, one of the five best of all time in the NBA, was the protagonist in the awakening of Catalan in the best basketball league in the world and, later on, a huge contender for the former Spanish international, with the that was measured in two Finals, the 2008 and the 2010, when Pau was already playing in the Lakers and Garnett in the Celtics.
They already knew each other before. Kevin live your time of splendor in the Wolves and Pau he was a newcomer to the NBA. Garnett, a tongue-in-cheek, liked to provoke his rivals to flatten them. Perhaps inadvertently he was part of Pau’s presentation in partnership with that play, now mythical, in which, tracing the baseline, Pau dunked before three players from Minnesota, one of them ‘Big Ticket’.
During chapter III of ‘The important thing is the trip’, the documentary by Amazon Prime Video about the career of Pau Gasol, Kevin Garnet explains that play and his duels with Pau at a time when the Catalan was called soft in the NBA. “It was a sleeping dragon, the truth is that I should not provoke him. ”
Are some things that count Garnett in relation to Pau and his label as soft in a few minutes of a splendid chapter in which they also pronounce Doc Rivers, today a technician of the Sixers and then of the Celtics, and Billy Knight, the general manager of the Grizzlies when Pau landed in Memphis.
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