Kevin Garnett spoke about the time he got to play basketball with legendary musician Prince on his ‘Ticket and the Truth’ podcast with Paul Pierce. Garnett revealed how Prince would find him and his friends at the club, and bring them to Paisley Park, his massive estate where he worked on music.
“Not to be on no Chapelle sh*t… Everybody that’s been to Paisley Park past 2:30 knows what I’m talking about… We’d be in the club, bro would come in there, grab a couple of us, and grab whoever, then we out… He would be performing new music and sh*t too because he had the stage, and we was all, it was like a big a** studio. He got a place where he records… This is at his studio called Paisley Park… He got a court in there…”
Garnett added that Prince was talking trash and playing aggressively against him and his friends, and he was in awe of how good Prince was. KG was thoroughly impressed and even taken aback by how good Prince was on the court, and how he would talk to his opponents.
“He in there talking that cold cash sh*t. He play out of his shirt, he in there looking like Prince. Hair going, I couldn’t do it… This sh*t went on till 7 in the morning… And he ball hard, I’m talking, game to 11, talking that sh*t, you better get up… He got hands. Hit you with a flurry of blows brother… Everybody in there trying to guard him, he in there, yah, dropping your a**, and he’ll get in your face… I’m in awe…”
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Prince was one of the most elusive and mysterious figures in the world, despite being a global icon. So any stories about him usually give fans a glimpse into what the legendary artist was like.
Garnett is one of the greatest trash talkers in history. So for him to be impressed with Prince’s trash talk must mean that the ‘Purple Rain’ singer was going off. Prince is one of the most famous people from Minnesota, and for KG, getting to play with him must have been one of the biggest highlights from his time with the Timberwolves.
Kevin Garnett Is Known For His Trash Talk
Kevin Garnett has a long history of talking trash and getting under his opponent’s skin. He recently revealed what his strategy was when going up against Tim Duncan, and how he would talk trash to unnerve him. While Duncan wouldn’t engage with him on the trash talk front, the two would compete vigorously.
“My secret sauce was my gamesmanship—being able to get you to listen and hear what I’m saying, get you to engage with me, and then get you to totally not think about basketball. You’d want to fight, you’d want to go in the back. The gamesmanship was a big part of me.”
“When I didn’t get a person that would engage in the gamesmanship and it was just skill on skill, man. Tim Duncan, coming back. He may go baseline fadeaway, glass, come back with a right-hand hook, come back, fake them, and you go, ‘Ah man!’ You feel me?”
“When you’re a shot blocker, man, it’s the worst. I’d rather you say something to me. Don’t tap me on the ass, dog, real sh*t. But that was Timmy. Timmy would get you and he’d be like, ‘Hey man, that was a tough shot.’ Like, man, ‘Shut the f**k up.’”
Kevin Garnett’s reaction to Tim Duncan’s lack of trash talk is understandable. It is surprising that Prince was more of a trash talker while playing basketball than Duncan, one of the greatest players in the history of the sport. But that is the beauty of the game, you never know what you’re going to get from anyone who takes to the court.
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