The “Uncut Gems” media tour has essentially turned into Kevin Garnett’s new avenue to talk smack about guys in the NBA. First, he went after Kyrie Irving and Kevin Durant. Now he’s said something about LeBron James and the NBA higher-ups.
During his appearance on The Ringer’s “The Bill Simmons Podcast,” Garnett explained how he and his old Celtics teammates aren’t friends with James.
“The C’s, we didn’t give a (expletive) about LeBron,” he said.
But it wasn’t just LeBron. It’s the guys he played with, too — which explains why some of the guys from that Celtics group had, or still have, issues with Ray Allen.
“If you had (Dwyane) Wade, Chris Bosh and LeBron over in this corner and you had me, (Tony Allen) — I’m just making these names up — maybe Paul (Pierce) and (Rajon) Rondo right here, it’d be a ‘What’s up?’ and it’d be cool and respect, but there won’t be any, like, fraternizing,” Garnett said. “It ain’t going to be like, ‘Yo, how the family?’ It won’t be none of that.
“That’s real though. They don’t (expletive) with us, we don’t (expletive) with them. But it’s cool though. It’s a mutual understanding, in which we have respect for each other. … We go to All-Star games, they’re on that side, we’re right here.”
None of this made losing to the Miami Heat in the 2012 Eastern Conference Finals any easier either. Garnett still thinks the Celtics should have won that series, and he blames the outcome on the league.
Because Garnett feels the NBA was pushing for James.
“They was talking (expletive) to him, the media. And the league knew that they had an agenda, in which we wasn’t part of the agenda,” he said. “And that’s how they ended up winning that series. Yeah, I said it.”
And Garnett didn’t misspeak or anything. Because he reiterated, “We weren’t part of the agenda.”
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