Kevin dreaming of the NBA Championship!

Kevin Garnett toiled with the Timberwolves for a very long time. Since 1995, Kevin had worked and worked to bring a NBA Championship to the city of Minnesota.

Unfortunately the Timberwolves, managed by former University of Minnesota and Boston Celtic star Kevin McHale, could not surround Kevin with enough talent to get the job done.

Kevin McHale had drafted Kevin Garnett right out of high school and from 1995 to 2007 Garnett averaged over 20 points and 11 rebounds.

Finally, with Garnett facing free agency and Minnesota knowing he was going to leave and play where he had the best chance of winning a championship, they made a deal with the Celtics.

The Boston Celtics announced today that they have acquired 10-time All-Star and 2004 MVP Kevin Garnett from the Minnesota Timberwolves in exchange for Ryan Gomes, Gerald Green, Al Jefferson, Theo Ratliff, Sebastian Telfair, a 2009 first round draft pick (top three protected) and a return of Minnesota’s conditional first round draft pick previously obtained in the Ricky Davis-Wally Szczerbiak trade. Minnesota also receives cash considerations in the deal. source

Now Kevin finds himself matched up with Paul Pierce and Ray Allen. The three of them are elder statesman in the NBA, hungry to feel that championship feeling.

Usually you should check to see if a team has 2 star players, one primary star and one secondary star. This is the usual formula for the NBA. Of course, exceptions abound.

The Celtics will be able to bring 3 stars to the party.

The first preseason game was played in Europe. So how did our 3 stars perform?

Kevin Garnett had 19 points and 16 rebounds in his Celtics debut, and Boston ruined Andrea Bargnani’s homecoming with an 89-85 preseason victory over the Toronto Raptors on Saturday.

Paul Pierce added 21 points for Boston, while Ray Allenhad an off night with only 10 points on 4-of-13 shooting.The start of the NBA Europe Live tour marked the Celtics’ first game since Garnett and Allen joined the team, creating a “Big 3″ with Boston veteran Pierce. source

The question remains, will the 3 stars hungry for a title be able to get the job done or will age and selfishness prevent them from accomplishing their goal?

Kevin is known as an unselfish player and that may help, but beyond that so much is unknown.

They will need to develop some chemistry to win the really big games.

So what is going to happen?

Who can tell, it is a long journey to the title.

With Kevin Garnett the journey has just begun.

NBA Basketball Fan Question Will Kevin get his title?

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All Kobe wanted were some decent teammates.

Well, by decent, Kobe meant really really good, like in Kevin Garnett or someone on that level.

That level, better known as the NBA Stratosphere is hard to come by and even harder to get a player from. NBA trades are difficult to pull off.

The Lakers tried to oblige Kobe and went after Kevin in the off season.

The Deals fall through

Not sure what they were thinking, but the deal appears to have fallen through because of the Lakers reluctance to part with some pseudo stars, better known as barely above average players.

The bottom line is that the Lakers aren’t a bad team. They’re also not a great team, which they could have become had they been able to coax Minnesota’s Kevin McHale into sending them Garnett for a package of players.

The Lakers simply couldn’t get the Pacers to back off their demands for Bynum and Lamar Odom for O’Neal, so that deal never materialized. source

Not deterred the Lakers tried for all of the available big time players.

Kevin Garnett went from the Minnesota Timberwolves to the Boston Celtics. Jermaine O’Neal stayed with the Indiana Pacers. Shawn Marion is expected to stick with the Phoenix Suns. Andrei Kirilenko might stay in Russia rather than rejoin the Utah Jazz.

Shawn Marion Super Sun

The Shawn Marion deal is interesting in that Shawn is the highest paid Phoenix Sun and yet he wants out to find out if he can win outside of the shadow of Amare Stoudemire and Steve Nash.

Yet, Shawn said he would agree to a deal to the Lakers to live in the shadow of the great Kobe? Yeah, probably good that one didn’t work.

So, will Kobe have to score a hundred a game this year? Will he even smile?

Kobe is finding that life outside the domain of Shaq is a lot harder than he thought.

Can you blame him though? Kobe wants to win a title of his own, not one where they say Shaq won another title with Kobe on his team.

NBA Basketball Fan Question Are you still a Kobe fan?

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