The Minnesota Timberwolves’ Kevin Garnett compares the current play of the Golden State Warrior’s Stephen Curry to that of prime Michael Jordan while he was with the Chicago Bulls.
Kevin Garnett appreciates greatness. It goes a long way for a player of his caliber to compare Stephen Curry to the greatest of all time in Michael Jordan. Garnett spoke fondly of Curry to Jerry Zgoda of the Star-Tribune.
KG on Curry: "Like Michael Jordan was a whole other thing, this guy is his own thing. It's beautiful for basketball."
— Jerry Zgoda (@JerryZgoda) November 12, 2015
Garnett entered the NBA as a teenager around the end of Jordan’s prime while His Airness was with the Chicago Bulls. Kevin Garnett is one of the top 50 players to play the game in his own right, as the face of the franchise for the Minnesota Timberwolves for years and winning an NBA Championship in 2008 as a part of the Boston Celtics’ Big Three (Garnett, Paul Pierce, and Ray Allen).
With last year’s MVP season for Curry and his Golden State Warriors winning their first NBA Championship in 40 years, it’s safe to say that Curry is entering his prime. The way that Curry shoots the basketball from the outside, that spot-on and that often, has never been done before. Garnett is arguing that very notion of how Jordan did things with the basketball that had never been done before applies to the Golden State Warriors’ Stephen Curry.
Coming from essentially a player-coach in Garnett, now back with a young, but talented Timberwolves team, speaks volumes about the mutual respect the different generations of basketball stars have for one another. Keep in mind that Garnett played against Curry’s father, Dell Curry, for a few years before Senior retired in 2002. When greatness appreciates greatness in another generational, that’s special.