By the time Kevin Garnett was traded to the Brooklyn Nets from the Boston Celtics, he wasn’t the All-NBA player he’d once been. Age and injury had caught up to the forward, who would go on to be a Basketball Hall of Fame inductee.
But it turns out there was at least one thing that didn’t diminish by the time he got to Brooklyn for the 2013-14 season — Garnett’s ability to trash talk. Philadelphia 76ers forward Mike Scott reminded everyone of that fact when he reminisced about the time Garnett “stunned” him during the Virginia native’s second season with the Atlanta Hawks while he was on the Let’s Talk Battle Rap podcast:
I might’ve hit like two threes on him back-to-back and I starting feeling myself and started talking [expletive] to him. And he was like — he said, ‘Who’s on the back of your jersey? You won’t even last five years in this league. I’m a great.’ … This was my second year in the league.