Garnett: My era 'could never play in the bubble'

Kevin Garnett thinks things would've played out a lot differently if COVID-19 had been around when he was in the NBA.

On the latest episode of Complex's "Load Management" podcast, Garnett spoke about the differences between his playing days and today's game, and why the NBA bubble wouldn't have worked during his era.

"To be honest y'all, we could never play in the bubble," Garnett said. "You know how much I've been screaming during your shot 'Get that shit out of here'? You could've heard me in here. Man they'd of had a bunch of censors. Couldn't have all these cameras, you know, players walking around naked, balls swinging all type thing. That's a different league. We were men, yo.

"We out here talking to each other," he continued. "We trying to figure out the pick and roll. We ain't switching, you know, it was just totally different. It (would have) been barbaric. We could have never been in a situation like this. It would've been chaotic ... It would've been very difficult to put my timing and the guys that I played with and against into a bubble like this and have us not be like - we was high competitors. Everybody's competing. Everybody's damn near fighting every other play."

Garnett was a prolific trash talker, so the NBA and television networks likely would've had a difficult time hiding his profanity during bubble games.