Blockbuster Brooklyn trade involving Kevin Garnett spices up Knicks-Nets rivalry
- Last Updated: 7:29 AM, June 28, 2013
- Posted: 2:22 AM, June 28, 2013
Steve Serby
Open up the Honey Nut cheerios boxes and sprinkle a trail from Flatbush Avenue to the corner of 34th and Seventh, because now we get to find out whether the town is big enough for Carmelo Anthony ... and Kevin Garnett.
Here comes KG, The Big Ticket who makes the Brooklyn Nets a big ticket, and here comes Paul Pierce, The Truth, with him (along with Jason Terry), and here come the $100 Million Nets, coming to try to steal the town from Melo and the Knicks, coming for everyone. And here comes a City Game rivalry that will make the old Cold War with the Russians feel like a tempest in a teapot.
When you have an insatiable, driven owner such as Mikhail Prokhorov, it isn’t enough to be King of Brooklyn — only King of all New York, at the very least, will do. You never rest, never stop pushing for that blueprint for greatness that just might make Barclays Center the garden of dreams, the biggest basketball dreams.
Garnett waived his no-trade clause last night to help his old pal, Jason Kidd, bring a buzz to Brooklyn that will be heard as far away as Clyde Frazier’s Wine and Dine and the offices of one James Dolan.
Everyone knows Garnett is on his last legs, but his tongue is forever young, so Melo better hide the woman — ooh, La La — and children the minute Garnett steps off the bus in Brooklyn.
He won’t be here for a terribly long time, of course; he is, after all, 37 years old, and Pierce is 35, proud old Celtics warriors no longer needed in the rebuilding project left behind by Doc Rivers, who bolted to the Clippers.
But here’s the thing: Making this blockbuster play makes the Nets every bit the Win Now team Anthony’s Knicks are. The trio of No. 1 picks sent to Boston means nothing to the win-now Nets owner. Neither do Kris Humphries, Gerald Wallace, Reggie Evans, Kris Joseph, and Keith Bogans, who were also sent to Boston in the proposed trade, which won’t become official until July 10.
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