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The Minnesota Timberwolves now have new owners in Alex Rodriguez and Marc Lore, who fully bought the team from Glen Taylor for $1.5 billion yesterday. Now, these new owners want to repair relations with a team legend.
According to ESPN insider Shams Charania, the new owners want to rebuild a relationship with NBA legend Kevin Garnett, who was the team’s first true legend, playing for them from 1995 to 2007, and then again from 2014 to 2016.
Garnett has had a beef with the former owner, Glen Taylor, for a long time now. It first started when Taylor insinuated Garnett was tanking before he was traded to the Boston Celtics in 2007.
Then, when he returned to Minnesota to play under his old coach Flip Saunders, Garnett was under the impression he would get a role in the front office after he retired. However, when Saunders passed away in 2015, the team hired Tom Thibodeau to be coach and team president, which Garnett took as blocking from opportunity. Since then, he has not allowed his number to be retired as long as Taylor was around.
However, now that Taylor is gone, Garnett could come around. In all fairness, he definitely should get his number retired. He was an MVP, an 11-time All-Star, eight All-NBA selections, multiple All-Defense selections, and was runner-up DPOY many times as well.
Hopefully, the new owners reach out to Garnett soon, so the number 21 can finally get raised into the rafters to cement his status as a T-Wolves legend.
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