There are a few words that come to mind when describing Kevin Garnett \u2014 intense, competitive, and strong. One of the less obvious ones would be fun-loving, since the former MVP was rarely seen laughing on the court. That side of his personality has only really come into focus after his retirement. Still, it was present even when he was a domineering force in the paint, and he recently admitted that his love for a children\u2019s TV show helped him hold on to it.<\/p>\n
While on the Ticket and the Truth, KG revealed that he used to watch Family Guy before every game he played in his career. While most adult men would be afraid to admit that they watched cartoons, KG owned it unapologetically. In fact, he was reacting to a clip of former teammate Keyon Dooling<\/a> describing how consistent the Big Ticket was with his pre-game routine.<\/p>\n KG corroborated Dooling\u2019s story himself and said, \u201cEvery day, that I would get to the arena, it all revolved around Family Guy being at 6 o\u2019clock. Having my peanut butter and jellies, and then getting my ankles taped.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIt was a real part of me. How I calmed down, and how I got ready for games,\u201d he continued. \u201cShoutout to Family Guy.\u201d<\/p>\n KG has admitted that this was his pre-game ritual, but former teammate Tony Allen remembers things a little differently. While on the Run Your Race podcast, he was talking about how he would observe how every player\u2019s pre-game routine was intrinsically linked to who they were as players and people.<\/p>\n For KG? It was a no-nonsense routine. \u201cThen I\u2019m looking at Ticket coming up. He come in there, get his treatment. He ain\u2019t saying nothing to nobody, he ain\u2019t trying to be funny. He ain\u2019t worried about what y\u2019all saw on TV. Just locked in, got his heat pack right there, no music or nothing,\u201d he said<\/a>.<\/p>\n That famed intensity had to come from somewhere, right? KG always made sure he would hype himself up before games, to the extent that he\u2019d face the cushioning under the basket while tying up his shorts, and then headbutt it before walking onto the court.<\/p>\n Talk about getting yourself in the zone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There are a few words that come to mind when describing Kevin Garnett \u2014 intense, competitive, and strong.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":97823,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-97822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}