“I thought Jayson Tatum had his own moment, which was dope,” Garnett tells Complex. “As I was watching it, it felt like he was like ‘Oh my god, I get it. Oh my god I see why he said this.’ And then he went on so, I was in that moment with him.”
Those are not the only comparisons that Garnett draws to this year’s Celtics team and his beloved 2008 squad. When asked who he thinks would win between the two teams in a seven game series he gave the “Young Cs” plenty of respect, but pulled no punches, exclaiming that ‘08 would get the job done in an easy five games.
Before Garnett’s championship run in Boston, he spent the majority of his career as a franchise player for the Minnesota Timberwolves, a team that has been yearning for a star of his caliber to replace him since he left. Enter Anthony Edwards, a budding Timberwolves superstar with a legitimate chance at becoming not only the face of the franchise, but the face of the NBA.
“I think he should [become the face of the league],” Garnett says. “I think Ant Man is what you want in the face. Ant talks, he talks his shit and he backs it up. And when he’s wrong, he’s accountable. I love his character. He has a personality.”
On top of his on-court prowess, Edwards and his debut signature shoe, the Adidas AE 1 are taking over the sneaker game, earning the number one spot on the Best Sneakers of 2024 (so far) list. Garnett is no stranger to the sneaker game himself, as the forward repped Nike, Adidas, And1, and more throughout his 20-plus years in the NBA. Notably, Garnett was one of the faces of the Nike Flightposite, a shoe that Nike recently announced the return of during Paris Fashion Week.
“I thought I was fucking Bruce Wayne in that shoe,” Garnett says of the Nike Flightposite. “They gave me an all black pair that looked like Batman. I put those on, and that’s kind of what I thought, I was a superhero.”
Now, like many other former NBA players, Garnett has his own podcast, KG Certified, which he confidently says sticks out from the rest of the NBA pods out there. “We think differently,” Garnett says. Complex caught up with Garnett in Jersey City, New Jersey at the BetMGM headquarters to discuss the KG Certified podcast, Anthony Edwards, KG’s sneaker history, and much more.
This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.
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