Nov. 17, 2005 -- Eight-time All-Star, league MVP and the Minnesota's all-time leader in points, rebounds, blocks, assists and games played, Kevin Garnett, usually lets his game do his talking. But, in an exclusive interview with TNT OverTime before the Timberwolves face Washington on TNT at 7 ET, Garnett tells Cheryl Miller that Sam Cassell's holdout and Kevin McHale's desire to coach last year were issues leading to the team's tumultous season, which ended with the Wolves missing the playoffs. Garnett added that Flip Saunders, currently plying his trade in Detroit, might still be be head coach in Minnesota if things had been handled differently.

Watch TNT OverTime's exclusive interview with Garnett and then look below to see a timeline of the events that have shaped Garnett's NBA career.


2005
 --- Nov. 16: Through seven games of the 2005-06 season, Garnett's averaging 9.7 rebounds per game, his first dip under double-digit rebounding since his third season in 1997-98
Garnett is averaging 9.7 boards this season
--- Nov. 11: Garnett donates $1.2M to Katrina victims

--- Nov. 2: Opens 11th season with an 18-point, seven-rebound, seven-assist performance in a 90-86 win over the Portland Trail Blazers

--- June 17: Timberwolves hire Dwane Casey, the seventh coach in franchise history

--- April 17: A 109-94 loss to the Seattle SuperSonics at Target Center officially eliminates the Timberwolves from playoff contention. The Timberwolves miss the postseason for the first time since Garnett's rookie season

--- Feb. 20: Garnett plays in his eighth NBA All-Star Game, garnering 10 points, three boards and two assists for the West, but the East wins 125-115

--- Feb. 12: Timberwolves replace head coach Flip Saunders with GM Kevin McHale. Saunders is the only coach Garnett has had in Minnesota

--- Jan 4: Garnett posts personal-best and franchise high 47 points in 122-115 loss to Phoenix


2004
 --- Nov. 3: With virtually the same team that went to the Western Conference Finals the season before, the Timberwolves open Kevin Garnett's 10th NBA season with a 99-93 win over the New York Knicks. Garnett tallies 28 points and grabs 20 rebounds
Latrell Sprewell and
Sam Cassell
--- Nov.: Along with the San Antonio Spurs, the Timberwolves are picked as one of the teams by NBA GMs as favored to win the Western Conference

--- May 31: Wolves fall 96-90 to Los Angeles Lakers to lose Western Conference Finals series, 4-2, on the day he graced the cover of Sports Illustrated for the fourth time in his career, standing alone under the title, "Can he do it?"

--- May 19: Timberwolves advance to first-ever West Finals with an 83-80 win over the Sacramento Kings to take their Western Conference Semifinals series, 4-3

--- May 3: In leading the Wolves to a franchise-high 58 wins and averaging 24.2 points per game, 13.9 rebounds per game, 5.0 assists per game Garnett was named NBA MVP, garnering 120 of a possible 123 first place votes, and was named to the All-NBA First Team (third time) and All-NBA Defensive First Team (fifth time)

--- Feb. 15: Played alongside teammate Sam Cassell at the 2004 NBA All-Star Game in Los Angeles, the third time Garnett has represented the club at the midseason classic with a teammate (Wally Szczerbiak in 2002, Tom Gugliotta in 1997)


2003
 --- Dec. 5: Pulled down a career-high tying 25 boards to go with 33 points Dec. 5 at Sacramento
K.G. adds to the trophy case
--- Feb. 9: Named MVP of the 52nd NBA All-Star Game scoring 37 points with nine rebounds and five steals as the West defeated the East 155-145 in double-overtime in Atlanta


2001
 --- Apr. 23: Received 26 of a possible 123 votes from a panel of sports writers and broadcasters throughout the United States and Canada to finish as runner-up to Dikembe Mutombo for Defensive Player of the Year honors


2000
 --- Oct. 1: Averaged 10.8 points and an Olympic competition-leading 9.1 boards as the USA went 8-0 to win the Gold medal in Sydney, Australia

--- May 20: Teammate, friend and mentor, Malik Sealy, dies in a car accident while returning home from Garnett's birthday party


1998
 --- Jan. 3: Recorded his first-career triple-double
A young Garnett with then coach Flip Saunders
1997
 --- April 21: Listed in the April 21, 1997 edition of Newsweek as one of the 100 most influential people for the next decade

--- Feb. 9: As a second-year player, Garnett was named to the NBA All-Star Game in Cleveland. He scored six points and grabbed nine rebounds in 18 minutes


1996
 --- May 16: Named to the NBA All-Rookie Second Team

--- Jan. 9: The rookie forward started his first NBA game, at the L.A. Lakers. At 19 years, 7 months and 20 days, he was, at the time, the third-youngest player in NBA history to start a game


1995
 --- Dec. 18: Wolves' GM Flip Saunders replaces Bill Blair as head coach

--- June 28: Became the first player in more than 20 years to be drafted directly out of high school, selected fifth overall by the Timberwolves