No too many teams trade the best player in team history….but the Minnesota Timberwolves did!
The feeling in the Timberwolves’ front office was that they could never win a title with Kevin Garnett. So they decided to trade him to the Boston Celtics where he won it all in his first year there while the T-Wolves continue to flounder. K-G played in 927 games for the Timberwolves in which he averaged 38.3 minutes, 20.5 points, 11.4 rebounds, 4.5 assists, 1.4 steals and 1.7 blocked shots per game. He is the all-time leader in franchise history in games played (927), minutes played (35,535), points scored (19,041), rebounds (10,542), assists (4,146), steals (1,282) and blocked shots (1,576). He will be the all-time leader in all of those categories for a long time as I don’t see any current players on the team being a threat to any of his team records. The Timberwolves could be in the midst of a curse similar to that the Red Sox were in when they traded Babe Ruth.
