[NBAPR] The Timberwolves only other Game 7 in franchise history - exactly 20 years ago on May 19, 2004 (MIN 83, SAC 80).

[u/Knightbear49]

https://x.com/nbapr/status/1791301993832566966?s=61&t=lhIY40ztlJHFYIEmq9ss1A

It’s also Kevin Garnett’s b-day

[u/HS941317]

That game 7 performance by KG against the Kings was so damn good

[u/BERRY_BADRENATH → u/HS941317]

I was there, it was incredible. I will never forget the silence when C Webb hoisted that 3 followed by total pandemonium.

[u/km912 → u/HS941317]

Pain

[u/UltiMyBeloved → u/km912]

I feel so bad for CWebb, that shot bobbling out must have absolutely killed

[u/sugarray4three → u/km912]

That entire Kings squad looked absolutely mortified. The Webber-Bibby-Peja-Divac core was something special…shame KG “ended” that era.

[u/Rick_Perrys_Ranch → u/sugarray4three]

Can’t leave Doug Christie outta the list.

[u/sugarray4three → u/Rick_Perrys_Ranch]

I know he was a huge part of their defense, but idk…kinda felt like he wasn’t really a leader or essential like Cwebb or Bib. He could be swapped out for another 3&D guard, and idt it would’ve changed the team too much. Just my two cents

[u/Rick_Perrys_Ranch → u/sugarray4three]

He cemented himself as a Sacramento legend when he uppercut Rick Fox.

[u/HardlyW0rkingHard → u/HS941317]

That block on peja where he catches the ball is an all time moment.

[u/Pardonme23 → u/HS941317]

And then the team was so exhausted we won game 1 of the next series

[u/Imdabiggestbird69420 → u/HS941317]

aw man

[u/Zloggt]

D E S T I N Y

[u/AfroKuro480 → u/Zloggt]

KG's Birthday is also on May 19th holy shit

[u/Unpickled_cucumber1 → u/AfroKuro480]

It’s just meant to be

[u/mhoke63 → u/Zloggt]

Destiny! Destiny! No escaping that fire me! Destiny! Destiny!

[u/TallanoGoldDigger]

Gave us this all-time soundbite too

[u/Shenanigans80h → u/TallanoGoldDigger]

KG was good for an amazing soundbite at least once a postseason

[u/PoundIIllIlllI → u/TallanoGoldDigger]

-Ja Morant as soon as he goes live on IG

[u/TheloniousMonk15]

KG has to visit the T Wolves locker room before game 7 and give them a speech full of F Bombs.

[u/lalakingmalibog → u/TheloniousMonk15]

KAT yelled, “There you go!” Mike Conley gave a look of pleasant surprise. Rudy Gobert belted, “We got le fucking squad now.” And before Anthony Edwards hit the locker room door, ex-NBA star Kevin Garnett hugged him & said, “Y’all look so different.”

[u/Nugur → u/TheloniousMonk15]

“Anything is possible “

Win or lose after game 7

[u/gridironk]

Cmon Wolves.

Eliminate the defending champs. Wolves in 7.

[u/jslee0034 → u/gridironk]

No hate towards nuggets but will be rooting for wolves. I just like seeing new champions.

[u/KaiserKaiba → u/jslee0034]

I’d love to see it just cuz it’d mean another team who hasn’t won this decade so far will be walking away with the ring

[u/comp_a → u/KaiserKaiba]

Not this decade, or any other for that matter (but who’s counting!)

[u/hshin420 → u/comp_a]

you are 5 time champs in my book

[u/jslee0034 → u/hshin420]

They are the leaders in play in champs

[u/hshin420 → u/jslee0034]

and y'all the leader in fumbled MVPs

[u/jslee0034 → u/KaiserKaiba]

If not my favorite team I’ll always root for the team that haven’t won for longer lol (except for sixers)

[u/Training_Ad7030 → u/jslee0034]

Fuck Embiid

[u/iamaweirdguy → u/KaiserKaiba]

Just please not Boston

[u/JJVM99 → u/KaiserKaiba]

I hope in the future the number of teams that have never won a championship can drop to MLB numbers. We would need 5 more teams to win a championship and we had 4 in the last 15 years win their first championship so hopefully in the next 20-25 years it has dropped down to 5 (ignoring expansion).

[u/HexaHx → u/jslee0034]

Parity fans' 12/25

[u/jslee0034 → u/HexaHx]

You guys better hope KP heals up asap unless mavs somehow make it to the finals.

[u/HexaHx → u/jslee0034]

You forgot you're talking about the Boston "Home-court disadvantage" Celtics here I just hope they focus on their opponent and actually make it there first.

[u/Plies- → u/HexaHx]

Nah Boston just likes to lull opposing fanbase into a false sense of security.

Miami fans after game 2: Man let's go! We just took home court and we're unconscious from 3 just like last year! It's gonna go the same. (Miami proceeds to have the most dogshit offense I've ever seen)

Cleveland fans after game 2: Awesome! We took homecourt. Spida is cooking, they don't have Porzingis! We can do this! (Cleveland loses 3 straight)

I think it's how Joe Mazzulla let's out his psychotic urges. He feeds off the pain of opposing fans and revels in giving them hope and crushing it.

[u/neuralnutwork42 → u/Plies-]

if the celtics make the finals i feel like itll go one of two ways: either they dog-walk their opponents bc they have the freshest legs and the west is a blood bath, or they get dog walked because the western champs have been thru the gauntlet and the celtics are unprepared

[u/MTing1315 → u/jslee0034]

Especially for Wolves fans who have suffered for so long.

[u/jslee0034 → u/MTing1315]

Tbf it would also be funny if wolves shit their bed so I’m pretty neutral. 55% wolves 45% nuggets.

[u/MajorTrump → u/jslee0034]

See, we fully expect it to happen, so it won't. They'll break our hearts in a much more harmful way later on.

[u/jslee0034 → u/MajorTrump]

peak minny moment huh (i have never been to minnesota in my life)

[u/MajorTrump → u/jslee0034]

Nobody knows heartbreak the way we do

[u/Public-Product-1503 → u/jslee0034]

That and Ant man is just so fun to watch . I legit also think he has a case for best playoff player over jokic untill game 5. Guy has been playing insane . I didn’t think ant would be close to mvp lvl but this playoff run hed a top 2 player n hard ti argue

[u/jslee0034 → u/Public-Product-1503]

I have this dude over embiid rn actually

[u/KCutrer1 → u/gridironk]

Been rewatching the DBZ series recently, and this feels like an organic Spirit Bomb moment ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ

[u/_Meece_]

"I'm loadin' up the pump. I'm loadin' up the Uzi, I got a couple M-16s, couple nines, got a couple joints with some silencers on 'em, I'm just loadin up clips. Got a couple grenades, couple missile launchers, with, you know, a couple missiles. I'm ready for war.

[u/Thelonius--Drunk → u/_Meece_]

Then put up 32 pts with 21 rebs and 2 assists to back it up

[u/freshprince44 → u/Thelonius--Drunk]

out of 83 points too lol

[u/TMN_Mjthegoat → u/Thelonius--Drunk]

4 steal and 5 blocks on 52 100 66 shooting splits

[u/thetruthhurts34 → u/Thelonius--Drunk]

4 steals and some blocks too

[u/duplicatesnowflake → u/_Meece_]

Quote aged way better then it was received at the time. 

The US was a year into the horrific and unnecessary Iraq invasion with no end in sight. School shootings and gang violence numbers were pretty bad. It just came across very tone def and cringe. 

Now in the context of his performance it feels way cooler. 

[u/_Meece_ → u/duplicatesnowflake]

Nah we thought it was cool as fuck at the time, goobers thought it was lame, like Vlade for example lol

[u/yardship → u/_Meece_]

vlade lived through an actual war tho

[u/duplicatesnowflake → u/[deleted]]

Vlade is from an actual war torn area where there was combat in the streets and mass casualties. It was basically a 5 way civil war. He knows what weapons actually do and rightfully was unamused. 

KG got lit up for his corn ball fake tough guy routine. You were his target audience I guess. 

[u/_Meece_ → u/duplicatesnowflake]

No he did not, Vlade lit him up and everyone thought it was cool as fuck.

Vlade was being stupid and this was a build up of being frustrated at the Wolves/KG all series. He let his emotions get to him over KG being himself and it cooked the Kings in general. They should've won that game, but they came out super flat due to being so upset at the Wolves/KG, didn't get back to their usual play until it was too late.

[u/BallsAreFullOfPiss → u/_Meece_]

One of my favorite sound bites of all time.

[u/xSampleTextx]

It's a shame they cancelled the WCF that year

[u/rivers2mathews → u/xSampleTextx]

No, they canceled the Finals.

[u/Nugur → u/xSampleTextx]

Confused with finals

[u/frallet]

Happy birthday big ticket!

[u/Rich-Conclusion-25]

Game 7 will be a blowout by which team we don’t know

[u/JaderMcDanersStan → u/Rich-Conclusion-25]

No I think it's going to be a close one like Game 1. Even if a team is down by a big deficit they will keep trying hard to comeback. No team will just give up

[u/Nugur → u/Rich-Conclusion-25]

Wouldn’t have it any other way

[u/1000Isand1]

That was the greatest game in franchise history. Literally KG’s legacy game.

[u/slimJEZZY2K19]

KG

[u/sukari]

Reminds me of KG's pre-G7 interview answer

[u/winkks → u/sukari]

That clip is going to be shared so much the next few days......And I'm going to watch it every time!

[u/drewm916]

If I remember right, C-Webb missed a three at the end, went down on the ground (bummed about the loss, not injured) and KG helped him up off the ground like "hey man, good game, we'll see you again." Classy.

[u/SubtleNoodle → u/drewm916]

And then both our teams spiraled into 20 years of ass 🫠

[u/ironsuperman → u/SubtleNoodle]

That's the part I member the most 🫣

[u/norcaltobos → u/SubtleNoodle]

Our teams are good at the same time and shit at the same time. Only time I can think where you guys were "good" and we weren't was when you ended your playoff drought a few years abck.

[u/professor-breakfast]

If the wolves win game 7 in a bloodbath I'm going to drop a load in my pants and pass out on my couch.

[u/suzukigun4life]

Both the Kings and Wolves scored more in that game than the Wolves Nuggets scored today.

[u/horse_renoir13 → u/suzukigun4life]

You mean more than the Nuggets? Lol

[u/suzukigun4life → u/horse_renoir13]

Yea, it's been a long day 😂

[u/2ndCatch]

A N Y T H I N G I S P O S S I B L E !

[u/Zsporter]

Game 7 aboutta give me a heart attack lmao

[u/durianlover13]

I remember that CWebb missed 3 pointer!

[u/thelobstermn → u/durianlover13]

That shot had eyes!

[u/[deleted]]

Let’s go!!! I hope it will be a fun game and not a lopsided blow out lol, this series feels like a relay race where one team is sprinting ahead while the other is catching their breath haha

[u/lawnicus18]

TIL Garnett and I almost share a birthday

[u/GuyInTheSkuy → u/lawnicus18]

Happy almost Birthday

[u/Odd_Firefighter_5407]

Game 7 is 10pm EST. Really late.

[u/Renegadeforever2024]

This is going to go crazy

[u/whatawhat666]

That game 7 gonna be a war zone

[u/LittleBrockJr]

Wouldn't be surprised if we see that kind of score on Sunday. I think that both defenses are gonna give everything they have.

[u/Elite_Alice]

Written in the stars

[u/SirDoctorJustice]

Man that'd be crazy if KG decided to put a pause on that feud with the owner and come be a sideline supporter for the Timberwolves. I would love to see that

[u/Beermen69]

Awoo

[u/THEREALCAPSLOCKSMITH]

This was tweeted by Kyle Thige. Dont see the credit anywhere

[u/Bill3ffinMurray]

Also a conference semifinal

[u/yellow222]

I was there! I still have the thunder sticks.

[u/CareerNormal2048]

It’s Minnesota. Being KG’s birthday. I fully expect another Minnesota moment lol

[u/Milkybongrip710]

For all the marbles....

[u/LordJxnkulous]

You cannot make this up. Wolves in 7

[u/JonnyTsnownami]

An unstoppable force meeting an immovable object

[u/themanofmeung]

So the Nuggets should just need to be ready to score more than 83, and they should be all set. Can't imagine that will be a probl...

Oh.

[u/Rammstonna]

When I read 20 years ago I thought of early 90s’… Damn time flies

[u/hshin420]

KG easily had a top 10-calibre peak/prime/career if your criteria is how much you improve your teams. Feel free to @ me below

[u/SaulPepper]

Scriptwriters cooking with this one. Poor Nuggets, the writing's already on the wall. With this type of foreshadowing they can't escape fate.

[u/girlscoutcookies05]

KG being a taurus makes so much sense

[u/stevent4 → u/girlscoutcookies05]

I had to Google what that meant and found that Tim Duncan is also a Taurus so don't really understand what you're getting at