 So, as many of you have seen the Kevin Garnett interview on Showtime with Matt Barnes and Steven Jackson on the All The Smoke podcast, Kevin Garnett relayed a story about the time he was trash talking Michael Jordan, provoking him as a rookie in the league. And after the story ends, we're also going to break down another story regarding MJ and Kevin Garnett later on down in Kevin Garnett's career. And if you haven't watched the interview, good because this video is going to break down everything. With Kevin Garnett, Isaiah Ryder and of course MJ all together. I put a lot of time and effort into making this video, trying to get all the clips from both interviews and of course the entire game. I wanted to showcase the clips from the game that Kevin Garnett was describing so you can watch it all pieced up together. So if you enjoyed this video, I'd really really really appreciate it if you guys could leave a like to show your support. Let's aim for a thousand likes, it literally takes two seconds of your time and it would really mean a lot to me. If you're new around here and you enjoy NBA content, hit that subscribe button for more NBA content every single week and hit that notification button so you never miss an upload. With that said, here's the story about MJ, Kevin Garnett and Isaiah Ryder. And if you have recently heard about the story, let me know what you think about it down below in the comments section. And then also let me know what you think about this video having it all pieced up together with all the game highlights mixed in with it. What's your best MJ story? Oh man. We're in Chicago. It was my rookie year. And I had played against Mike three times head up. So KG had never seen me play against Mike. So I'm in the wave. I'm playing decent. I'm starting whatever I have. But we get to Chicago. Ronnie was just in the bad crash. I haven't had no sleep so I'm on the, I'm on the getting back to the go. I got about 70 people at the game, the hood in here. We all in here, right? Kevin Garnett, it's all his fair good buddies. So I'm just on one, but I haven't had no sleep. I'm just on like, you know, I come in here, man. And it was hard seeing my partner in the bed like that. He had a big ass halo around his neck, but he was such in good spirits, man. Anyway, I get, I'm playing, right? But JR is having a good game. So I'm quiet. I always stay quiet when I play mine and talk too much. And if he talked to me, I was going to talk bad, but he never talked crazy to me. We just played. But I never talked crazy to him at all, right? Yeah, yeah, you knew better. No, JR Mike. JR Ryder. Yeah, JR Ryder. Shout to JR Ryder, right? Easy Ryder. And I got about 24 going into the fourth quarter. Yeah. Mike got about 18, 19. Okay. So as we come out the time out, KG like, man, keep going at his ass. Just, just, I'm on, y'all, y'all. I can't even explain it. I was just like, yo, keep killing that nigga, y'all. Serve him. He can't guard you. Bone him, y'all. Straight up. You have a good game, Joe. Keep going. You can't doubt it out with you. You can't mess with you. Yeah. I was like, I was quiet. I'm looking at him like. He was like, yeah, you too. So as I'm walking off. Chill. Mike was literally right there. Right here. Mike can hear me. But I ain't really, I don't really give a fuck something like that. And KG was like, okay. And KG was hype. Like he's super hype. Yes. You know how? Super hype. So we vibe, right? But I'm like chill. It's all a double ballot. Yeah, man. Keep killing that nigga, Joe. You're killing them all. You can't guard you. Keep going at him. Chill. What? I was like. I feel it. Hands on hips. Legs locked. They look. And they can stare at me for about 15 seconds. I was like, wow. I'm like, look at me. Look at KG. Look at me. Look at KG. You look. So I start to feel it. It's two ways you can go in this. I can walk this off out like I don't even feel it and play it off and dumb you out. Fuck that. Now I'm in here. Put this on. Put this on. I don't even feel it. I'm on. I'm on. Okay, keep it up. So I hear J.R. go, all right, y'all. So he's trying to get me off and over. I don't even, you know. Now that I recall it, he was trying to kind of get off and over it. So he go, so I double back go and get ready to say something. So I hear he go, hey, look Mike. Mike, he don't know the rules of the game, man. He just a young club. You know what I mean? Mike was like. I see him and Mike having a conversation. So he's like, he don't really know he excited. Whatever, so now MJ on the back leg joint. You know what I mean? Yeah. Is that right? Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, huh? Okay, you talking? You know what I mean? I said, he don't know the rules of the game, yeah. Mike looked at him being like, okay. Looked at me like, okay, I said, what you looking at me like that for, right? I can't even really describe the next like six to seven minutes of play, y'all. In this next six to seven minutes of play, y'all. We get two, not one, two 10 second calls. You know when you bring the ball up, you got to have two 10 second calls. Came to the, went to the fourth quarter, man. That man got about 17 quick. Mad, looking at KG, looking at me, looking at KG. Motivated, man. I said, look, I got a card, that man. We down 25 now, it was just that two. Mike had 18 here, like 40 now. Day away, jumper, base player to the X guys. Boxes inside, Michael Hungary. J.R. myself, we ain't scoring in like about four minutes. In our sub, like three of the starters, like it's just. You know what I mean, mind you, KG was having a great game on Scotty. We both, I mean, KG had about 30, I had about 28. Yeah. I mean, we, yeah, we was getting it, but KG didn't understand that we don't talk to Mike like that. No, don't gas him up, don't gas him up. Finally, flip, it got bad, quick, y'all. I come to the joint and then they know this. When you come and you've been on the run, when you not got back on the floor, got back, had to be back, had, and you feel like you on defense all the time, you come to the best like this. See me, see me, so, I was like, J.R. My bad, my bad, my bad, I'm sorry, man. I'm sorry. He like, it's cool, man. I told you, just shut your ass up, man, you know what I'm saying? So you got in between the gatorade and where you like, damn, and that's the, you know, we all go like this. Mike came down, okay, young fellow, okay, okay, damn, young fellow, damn, damn, y'all, y'all, damn, y'all, damn. Never talk shit to Mike ever again in life. Now, I don't know about you, but that's one of the craziest stories that I've heard in a very long time. Obviously, there are tons of MJ stories, and I've told many on this channel before, but Kevin Garnett's version is extremely funny to watch. The way he's able to describe situations, the way he's able to imitate players and their voices, he actually is a very good imitator. But apart from that, it's also very funny because it's the same story that J.R. Ryder brought up two years ago, and now when you combine them together, it's funny hearing it from both sides. The thing about Kevin Garnett is that he respected MJ, and MJ respected him after this situation. We all know the type of player that Michael Jordan truly is. He's a guy that wants to be fired up, and he actually plays better when somebody fires him up, and he respected Kevin Garnett because this was a high school player bringing it to him. And of course, Garnett respected him because he would never trash talk MJ ever again. But just for clarification, MJ said he respected Garnett even in an interview that season. I'm actually a person named Kevin. Good luck. He's gonna be good. He's young, he's learning. He's certainly gonna learn how to adapt to this situation. He's on the job trainer right now. And he also respected him so much that when MJ was 38 years old and playing for the Washington Wizards, he would go at Kevin Garnett. Keep in mind, this is a 38-year-old Michael Jordan. Yes, he was still a solid player. He was a 23-point-per-game player, but he was 38 years old, and you really have to keep that in mind. This wasn't the MJ that we had seen in Chicago the first time that KG and MJ matched up against each other. This was Jordan at 38 years old after three years out of the league. And if you were wondering how good Kevin Garnett was at this stage, well, he just finished outside of the top 10 MVP race in the entire league, and the next season he would finish second in the MVP race. So this Kevin Garnett was emerging as one of the best players in the league, and he took it upon himself to guard MJ, who was 38 years old. MJ took it upon himself to go to work against an MVP level, Kevin Garnett, on his farewell tour. And this was the game where he just put it on Kevin Garnett, time and time again. He was going at KG, hitting mid-range jumpers, dunking it, getting crazy layups. He looked like a prime version of MJ when really this was a Washington Wizards MJ that was ending his career that season. And of course, MJ was putting it on Kevin Garnett because he had a lot of respect for KG and knew how good of a player he was. This was MJ's version of a challenge. You know that MJ wanted a challenge each and every game, but when they had history together, MJ would take it upon himself to make something happen. And this game was just another example of that. I'm not sure if the game in Kevin Garnett's rookie season was the reason why MJ went so hard on this particular occasion, but I do know that MJ had that killer mentality where if he was up against an MVP candidate, no matter how old he was, he would go to work on that player and he showed it at this particular time too. And these highlights just showcase how great of a player he really was. With that said, let me know what you think about this MJ and Kevin Garnett story. If you enjoyed it, please, please, please leave a like to show your support. It took a while for me to find all the clips and match it all up together, so I'd greatly appreciate it if you guys could drop a like to show your support. Let's aim for a thousand likes for the next video. And if you're new around here and you enjoy NBA content every single week, multiple times a week, hit that subscribe button so you get NBA content just like this video every single week, and hit that notification button so you never miss an upload. With that said, it's been your boy Nick Smith. I really hope you enjoy the video. I will catch you in my next one. I'm out. Peace.