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Brad Stevens arrived to Boston five days after Kevin Garnett departed, but he still has some lasting memories of the Celtics great.
With Garnett being enshrined into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame on Saturday, Stevens took some time before C s-Timberwolves to share a story from KG s early days. Kevin and I are in the same high school class, Stevens said. So the first time I saw Kevin was at an AAU tournament on the court next to me. And when he walked out on that court and I watched him running up and down the court, I was like, Oh my goodness. It was the best kid in our class, obviously, and I have never seen anybody that was that mobile, that energetic, and that talented in our class at least.
Vanessa Bryant and daughter Natalia are presented with Kobe s Basketball Hall of Fame jacket ahead of the NBA legend s Saturday s induction
Natalia, 18, and mother Vanessa were given a ring and jacket in honor of Kobe Bryant at the Tip-Off Celebration and Awards Gala in Connecticut on Friday
Kobe Bryant is being inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Massachusetts on Saturday
He also got his own standalone tribute called Kobe: A Basketball Life which has not been done since Michael Jordan was inducted in 2009
This comes nearly a year and a half after Kobe and daughter Gianna tragically died in a helicopter accident along with seven others on January 26, 2020