Garnett had a chance to join the suns and play along nash, marion, barbosa, and diaw and win a ring in 2007 or 2008. Yet he still wans to be a t-wolve. If he does not win a ring or is forced to go to another team late in this career like g payton he may not be regarded as that good as a shaq or duncan who may end their careers with 4, 5, or 6 rings.
2007-07-18 16:37:47 · 17 answers · asked by NBA Man 1 in Sports ➔ Basketball
That's team loyalty. Sticking to your team and not demanding any trade. That's a trait most players in the league need to possess. LOYALTY.
2007-07-18 20:37:15 · answer #1 · answered by Darth Revan 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
First, Garnett is an extremely loyal player and wants to help the Wolves in any way that he can. However, trading a stud like Garnett isn't easy, or trading any superstar for that matter. Because of Garnetts value, salary and skills, there needs to be multiple team involvement to spring a trade. The third or fourth team is hardly ever satisfied with what they get, thus making a superstar trade pretty hard to accomplish.
Who wouldn't want to play for a title contender team like the Suns, but like I said, it isn't easy to trade a superstar.
2007-07-19 00:25:29 · answer #2 · answered by tit_mouse21 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
he'd do anything to go to a team with same calibur as the suns, but trades arent easy to execute these days.
T-Wolves will only trade if extremely beneficial for them
They want the best for their team, not for Garnett.
They arent going anywhere even close to the playoffs and making any moves that will help them get there. Garnetts in a bad situation. He doesnt deserve to be there at all
2007-07-18 23:50:34 · answer #3 · answered by j money 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Who said he had a chance to be a sun. I know they tried to work out a 3 player trade with marion being dealt but garnett didnt hinder that. Maybe he like playing on a loser team like the twolves.
2007-07-19 00:31:38 · answer #4 · answered by Triago 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He's got no choice but to say he wants to stay because he doesn't want to burn his bridges like Kobe did. He realised the Suns couldn't, not wouldn't, trade for him, and hardly anyone can because of his value and his contract, so he tried to be diplomatic to the team and the franchise.
He never actually had a chance to join the Suns. Garnett is a true blue PF. Amare is very very inclined and instinctively and in terms of playing-style, a PF. He's also somewhat under-sized to play Center against true Centers like Yao or Shaq, or even FC like Dwight Howard/Emeka Okafor. He'd foul out in 20 mins or so. He just can't anchor the middle defensively as a Center. Everytime the Suns tried to shift him to play Center for long stretches of the game, he wound up getting in foul trouble and kept getting scored upon. People who talk about Amare as a center have probably never watched a Phoenix Suns game.
Garnett never had a chance to join the Suns. The Suns realised that Amare has character and heart(seeing his comeback from injury) to go along with his athleticism and his skills. And he's 6 years younger than Garnett. He also earns 9 million less than Garnett. To make the salaries add up, the Suns would even have to put in another decent player. They were looking to trade Kurt Thomas and his 8million contract, but then who would play Center? Garnett is even less of a Center than Amare. And they would only have Garnett and Diaw as contributing big-men. Mihm is too injury-prone, greedy, untalented, and slow for the Suns to want him as their center. Even if Suns could get a one-for-one swap, they wouldn't do it since Garnett is just a slight upgrade over Stoudemire, but they would be putting themselves into a dire fiscal crisis and have two 30++ superstars who would get paid a combined 32 million a year, with no guarantee that they will improve or even win a ring. The Phoenix front office is so concerned about their finances that they even contemplated getting rid of Marion, who is extremely important to the Suns game and is one of their key energizers. If they're gonna bleed over paying a couple million in tax, imagine what Garnett's contract would make them want to do.
Garnett, sadly, is stuck in a place that he will never succeed in. His team is too lousy to be carried to even the playoffs, in the powerful West. Even Lebron has a better supporting cast. Kevin Mchale is only good at making bad signings and trades, and he's trying to force a team to overpay on Garnett to help to repair his mistakes, which no one is going to do. He doesn't care about Garnett's future or legacy, he only cares about his job and what people think of him, and that's the way it should be. Garnett should have left Minnesota long ago instead of staying for money. No other team would give him 20 million a year, but if he wanted to win a ring, he knew better. And now it's too late to regret it.
Another reason is that he does have some loyalty. I mean, they paid him 21 million a year to just stick around. He doesn't really have to compete for a ring, because he can't with the supporting cast around him. So he only needs to play 82 games a season and be decent and that's good enough to earn 21 million; of course he should be grateful. He doesn't want to end up being remembered as a sort of Alan Houston, who just takes money and does nothing, or Kobe Bryant, who turns on his team cos his teammates blow. Since he has no chance of winning a ring and achieving greatness, he would at least want people to remember him as a player who was pretty loyal to his team.
2007-07-19 00:12:13 · answer #5 · answered by TheHateMaster 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Don't buy for a second that KG wanst to be in Minnesota. They are on spin duty, fixing this glaring problem of having the only recognizable player on the team in so much trade talk.
2007-07-19 00:42:48 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
KG has class... simple as that... in a day where that's hard to come by and we spend most of our time bagging on guys like artest, here's a guy who has come to love his city and organization despite their losing ways. Maybe he would rather not win at all than to sell out a la payton!
2007-07-19 00:54:58 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Garnett just doesn't want to win a championship. And he's a fool if he thinks he can win one with the T-Wolves.
2007-07-19 00:49:22 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
garnett ain't goin to the suns! they are insane if they give up amare. he still young and in his prime! and getting better....me myself personally, the suns won't be the same if amare gone......garnett is more finess.....amare is more physical inside. he a beast! so he was to even go to the suns, they would lack that inside so they wouln't be that good. but mike dantoni said they wasn't gonna trade amare. they just threw his name out there on the trading block to see was the timberwolves gonna bite.....
2007-07-19 00:13:31 · answer #9 · answered by lil_taul 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's not about KG not wanting to be traded. It's about Kevin McHale not wanting to trade him for at least close to equal value.. i.e. Stoudemire.
2007-07-18 23:47:33 · answer #10 · answered by Chris_D 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋