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KG weighs in on Bulls feud: Locker room needs to stay sacred

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Kevin Garnett rushed to the defense of Rajon Rondo in the all-out war of words that has consumed the Chicago Bulls.

Garnett was careful to say that he doesn't personally know anyone outside of Rondo and Dwyane Wade in Chicago's locker room, but he stressed the need for leaders to keep problems in-house instead of talking to the media.

"Seems like they're having troubles in the locker room. Whatever goes on in the team needs to stay in the locker room, we talk about the locker room being sacred, it needs to stay sacred," Garnett said on TNT's Area 21.

If you want results, I go to you as a player, I go to you as a teammate and say to you whatever my concerns are and then we work towards the solution."

Rondo put Chicago's leaders - Wade and Jimmy Butler - on blast in a lengthy Instagram post featuring a picture of when he was a young player behind Garnett and Paul Pierce. Rondo opened his rant with, "My vets would never go to the media."

My vets would never go to the media. They would come to the team. My vets didn't pick and choose when they wanted to bring it. They brought it every time they stepped in the gym whether it was practice or a game. They didn't take days off. My vets didn't care about their numbers. My vets played for the team. When we lost, they wouldn't blame us. They took responsibility and got in the gym. They showed the young guys what it meant to work. Even in Boston when we had the best record in the league, if we lost a game, you could hear a pin drop on the bus. They showed us the seriousness of the game. My vets didn't have an influence on the coaching staff. They couldn't change the plan because it didn't work for them. I played under one of the greatest coaches, and he held everyone accountable. It takes 1-15 to win. When you isolate everyone, you can't win consistently. I may be a lot of things, but I'm not a bad teammate. My goal is to pass what I learned along. The young guys work. They show up. They don't deserve blame. If anything is questionable, it's the leadership.

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