{"id":826,"date":"2022-12-12T06:28:18","date_gmt":"2022-12-12T06:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/12\/kevin-garnett-reveals-how-trash-talk-unlocked-his-greatness\/"},"modified":"2022-12-12T06:28:18","modified_gmt":"2022-12-12T06:28:18","slug":"kevin-garnett-reveals-how-trash-talk-unlocked-his-greatness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/12\/kevin-garnett-reveals-how-trash-talk-unlocked-his-greatness\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Garnett Reveals How Trash Talk Unlocked His Greatness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"post-38670\">\n<div class=\"post-thumbnail\">\n<noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1846\" height=\"1039\" src=\"https:\/\/basketballforever.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/KG-2.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/basketballforever.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/KG-2.jpg 1846w, https:\/\/basketballforever.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/KG-2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/basketballforever.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/KG-2-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/basketballforever.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/KG-2-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/basketballforever.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/KG-2-1536x865.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/basketballforever.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/KG-2-600x338.jpg 600w, https:\/\/basketballforever.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/KG-2-100x56.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1846px) 100vw, 1846px\"\/><\/noscript> <\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Kevin Garnett wasn\u2019t always a trash talker. He\u2019d even been told not to say anything when he played.<\/p>\n<p>But that all changed when his high school coach, William \u201cWolf\u201d Nelson, helped him unleash his inner beast through trash talk.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWolfie was like \u2018I mean, if you\u2019ve got something you wanna get out man, let it out. Don\u2019t be holding that in here,\u201d Garnett said on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pOkrm78uPUQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Knuckleheads Podcast<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe gave me that freedom of expression\u2026 He started to help me like really express myself through the skill, because he saw what I would work on after practice and all the things I wanted to be better at.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd he was like \u2018Man, you gotta start implementing that (the trash talk) into your game, and you gotta do that s*** with some energy, man. So I would do it with that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The adoption of trash talk helped Garnett become a completely different player.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, it came to define him, because talking trash went hand in hand with the relentless intensity that became synonymous with his game.<\/p>\n<p>And had he never crossed paths with \u201cWolfie\u201d, everything could have been completely different.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/basketballforever.com\/2022\/12\/11\/kevin-garnett-reveals-how-trash-talk-unlocked-his-greatness\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Garnett wasn\u2019t always a trash talker. He\u2019d even been told not to say anything when he played. But that all changed when his high school coach, William \u201cWolf\u201d Nelson, helped him unleash his inner beast through trash talk. \u201cWolfie was like \u2018I mean, if you\u2019ve got something you wanna get out man, let it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":827,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}