Kevin Garnett was born in Greenville, South Carolina, a small, little-known town, and like the vast majority of black stars, his mother, Shirley, was a single mother. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoHis father Lewis was a well-known local athlete, and Garnett inherited his father's sports genes, but no one would have thought that he would become a superstar.

As a single mom raising children on her own is very hard and difficult, and in the end Shirley still marries a man named Ernest, and when Garnett reaches the age of high school, both think that Kevin should achieve something academically instead of choosing a basketball career that crosses the single-plank bridge. Garnett did not stubbornly defy his mother and stepfather, and attended a local high school, Mordin High School.

But Garnett's talent in basketball can't be overshadowed, and he became a regular on the school basketball team as soon as he entered Moldin High School, handing over superhuman numbers of 12 points, 15 rebounds and seven blocks in his rookie season. In Greenwiley, the average varsity basketball game was no longer enough to satisfy Garnett's desire to win, and he chose to go to the streets and play against the adult street masters.

It was the basketball experience on the street that shaped his unrestrained and wild style of play, but on the street he became famous, leaving the street court, leaving the school, leaving Greenwilly, he is still an unknown black boy. So in his senior year of high school, he chose to transfer schools, leaving South Carolina, which is relatively unknown in the national sports industry, to go to the basketball mecca in the middle, the most popular city for basketball in the United States in the 90s, and the place where the basketball god lived, Chicago.

Because of the transfer to Farragat High School in Chicago, Kevin Garnett began to enter the vision of the national professional basketball circle in 1995, where the stage is broader, and every year because of the NBA rookie training camp, a large number of agents and scouts gather here. Chicago is also one of the top street basketball destinations in the United States, and Garnett has the opportunity to play with some of the best street players in the country in his spare time.

Finally in the summer of 1995 he made a decision, he refused the invitation to come to a number of prestigious schools, crossed the university and the NCAA, and directly entered the NBA, this young, immature boy, thus stepped into the adult basketball world, becoming the fourth high school player in NBA history, and the initiator of high school students entering the NBA was Moses Malone from Venegia.

In the interview before the start of the first round of the 2004 Eastern Conference playoffs, Kevin Garnett faced reporters' questions, cameras, lights and microphones, and he had in mind the figure of Moses Malone, an old-timer he often heard and compared himself to. He once met him at an All-Star Game, a guy who looked round with a round head, drooping eyelids, and a slightly hunched back.

He always seemed silent, muddled when he spoke, with a throat lozenge in his mouth, and Garnett felt that he was not in the same dimension as such a person. Indeed, except for the identity of a high school student entering the NBA, the two have no resemblance in all other aspects, Moses is a short and stout center, Garnett is a tall and thin forward, Moses is good at offense, Garnett is better at defense, Moses specializes in frontcourt rebounding, Garnett backcourt rebounding protection is unbeatable, Moses is an offensive black hole, Garnett is an all-around forward.

High school students aside, no one would have linked Garnett to Moses Malone before April 17, 2004.

Garnett's mind was reminded of Moses Malone, of Fox Leon catching a big tuna like San Diego had two days earlier, and of the silent Moses' answers to similar questions from the media just before the 1983 playoffs began.

“fo，fo，fo。” Mr. Malone, who was born in Florida, spoke with a thick southern accent that made him speak in a strange tone, and when he said those three words, he lowered his head and looked like he was making any bold remarks -- a feeling that Garnett felt when he looked back at the video.

And now, it's his turn. With great confidence in the strength of the team, unlimited trust in head coach Fox Leon, and determination in the hard work he has put in this season, he imitates the southern accent of Moses Malone - he is also from the south, but in the end he fights for the team in the north, saying "fo, fo, fo, fo." ”

It's 2004, and the No. 1 finish in the East won't get a bye, so one more sweep is needed to finish the playoffs.

Everyone thought Kevin Garnett was crazy, but their head coach, Fox Leon, said Garnett was telling the truth.

Then on the night of April 17, the Boston Celtics slaughtered the visiting New York Knicks at home by 119:81, 38 points. On the 1-16 numbers on the sideline technical table, Garnett forked out 1 with a spray paint can, and the Celtics took a solid first step.

On April 20, the second game, 120:95, the Celtics once again used a 25-point difference to tell the Knicks that if you lose by less than 20 points, you win.

On April 23, the third game, the two sides came to New York, this time Leon and his Celtics were attacked by the New York media, in such a playoff matchup, no matter how good the relationship between the New York media and Leon is, it is impossible to cheer for him. However, at this time, Leon doesn't need these media friends to say anything good for him, he knows that if the media's mouth cannon can represent the strength of a city team, the New York Knicks will have already won the O'Brien Cup for ten consecutive years.

In Game 3, the Knicks put up some resistance in the first half, with Stephen Marbury fiery on fire in the first quarter, hitting four three-pointers to help the Knicks take the lead in the first quarter and trail the Celtics by just one point at the end of the second quarter.

In the second half, the Celtics didn't give the Knicks the slightest chance to resist, and they used a wave of super defense for 5 minutes to let the Knicks score 1 point from the free throw line in 5 minutes. Relying on this wave of strong defense, the Celtics successfully stretched the gap to 15 points again, and finally cut down the Knicks three times with a 101-81, 20-point advantage.

After this game, no one thought that the Knicks could still cause any trouble for the Celtics, even the New York media, no matter how loud-mouthed they were, just pitifully hoped that the Knicks could save a little face for themselves and New York in the fourth game. On April 25, Madison Square Garden, the Celtics swept New York City with a 45-point victory of 115:70, and the game did not "The New Yorker" posted that "it will be the worst and darkest day in the history of the New York Knicks playoffs."

And Leon and the Celtics, who created this darkness, patted their butts and left, leaving no cloud behind, Marbury's crossover, Alan Houston's mid-range shot, and the last remaining aura of Anfernee Hardaway, these things are like a passing cloud to them, without the slightest trace. Leon didn't even do a pre-game pre-game preparation, and he left all the preparation for the Knicks to Rick Carlisle.

Because Leon has to focus more on his own springboard semifinals, because whether it's against the New Jersey Nets or the Miami Heat, it's not that easy to run over all the way like the Knicks - and of course, it's not that hard.

On April 30, the Celtics' second-round opponents were released, and the New Jersey Nets defeated the newly promoted playoff team Miami Heat 4-2 in the first round, meeting the Celtics in the playoffs for three consecutive years, this time in the semifinals.

And on May 3, the night of the first game between the two sides, Kevin Garnett, who has been in the league for 9 years, received the 2003-2004 regular season MVP trophy from David Stern in front of more than 20,000 spectators at the North Shore Garden Arena, becoming the Celtics' second regular season MVP after Larry Bird in 1986 and the fifth player in Celtics history to win this honor.

It's an indisputable award, and Kevin Garnett is finally in the season of his own harvest. (To be continued.) )