More about Kevin Garnett -- make me gag

I left this comment on someone's blog a couple weeks ago. He'd written a pretty good little note saying 'no thanks' to Garnett's offer that "This is for everybody in 'Sota!" The comment section was FILLED with people, presumably all from Boston, calling the blogger dumb or worse.

Mike, I don't know how you'll find this amongst all the worked up Boston fans (I thought this was a Garnett dis piece?) but I feel you. Some athletes (of which Garnett is the most notable) somehow get a free pass. Where does heart show up on the box score? Or "backbone" or "motivation" or whatever else you want to call it. Duncan can unload for 40 points on a given night, Karl Malone was a big guy and a prolific scorer. LeBron made it to the NBA finals (and out of the first round each of the last three years) playing alongside Carrot Top and a guy named Boobie. Why couldn't Garnett do it? The NBA is a team sport but the only constant on that team for a decade was Garnett. Just like the only constant on the Celtics had been Pierce, and the Celtics stunk for most of the last decade!

As a Rockets fan, I understand that it isn't necessarily about the championships that Garnett didn't bring to Minn, its about getting out of the first round of the playoffs! If TMac ran off to join the Clippers or somebody and won a championship, the last thing I'd want to hear is "This is for you H-town (and Orlando, and Vancouver)." Allegiances are for a team, not a player.

I thought I was over hating on Garnett for a while until I came across this. Another gratuitous puff piece about how Garnett wanted a championship worse than any other athlete of all time ever. Seriously, what's the point of sticking with a team for a decade to leave and get a ring somewhere else? Shouldn't he have left in 2005 when he was tired of losing? Maybe the Wolves would have been competetive by now. Notice how the good people at Slate don't mention the profanity-laced rant Garnett went on during the press conference. That's a little tougher to love.