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I've Been Waiting for this Moment...
Listen, I'm a fan of almost all types of music, and I'll even tell you there's a time and place for the vocal stylings of someone like Phil Collins. But I'm pretty sure I'm not trusting someone who used it to get pumped up in the fourth quarter of a tight game. Well, unless you're Kevin Garnett.
We've all seen the intensity on KG's face as he plays this game, and it's unparalleled in probably all of professional sports. So I'll stand back when the beats of "In The Air Tonight" come blaring through the speakers in Boston during a late timeout, and Garnett himself is pantomiming the drum solo as he returns to the floor. As Celtics announcer Sean Grande reports on Celtics.com, Kevin Garnett did an interview recently, in which among other things, he professed his affection for "In The Air Tonight", and the drum solo that is its signature. Cue the music.... director.
The C's in-game entertainment crew was immediately on the case and many of us will now never look at that song in the same way. KG has always walked to a beat of a different drummer, which was why it was so important to him to be on the Celtics trip last week back to Minnesota Garnett is still nursing an abdominal strain, but his absence on the court didn't mean he had to be absent from his return home.
It's moments like the air drums that make Garnett not only one of the best athletes in Boston, but also the most popular. Those same attributes made him a very part of the fabric of Minnesota for years. KG loved his time there and still feels that loyalty today. Much like using a Phil Collins song to get ready to go, that's another attribute seldom seen in an athlete of his caliber.
Shake it UpLang Whitaker on Hawks.com takes a look at the Atlanta heading into the All-Star break, and thinks things might need to be shaken up.
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Really?And I'll end this blog on something I know I probably shouldn't make fun of. So instead I'll just say nothing at all.
