Earlier in the day, during a recording …

Earlier in the day, during a recording of Showtime’s “All The Smoke” podcast, he talked about his fateful decision to come to Boston. At the time, he said, he was choosing between the Los Angeles Lakers, the Phoenix Suns, the Golden State Warriors, and the Boston Celtics. Garnett says the Warriors and Suns situations just weren’t right for him. He said his first choice was the Lakers, saying “I wanted to link with (Kobe Bryant),” but he says Bryant didn’t answer his call. “I shouted at Kobe he didn’t pick the line up,” he told podcast hosts Matt Barnes and Stephen Jackson. “T-Lue (Tyronn Lue) and Kobe were close and he said ‘shoot at him again and see what he on.’ So I shouted again and he didn’t get back, so I had to make a decision.”