Love Quote by Kevin Garnett

Garnett’s praise reads like a public lobbying effort dressed up as nostalgia. By naming “Flip” (Saunders) with that first-name familiarity, he’s not just endorsing a coach; he’s invoking a relationship and a whole era of Timberwolves identity that Garnett helped define. The repetition of “I think” is doing quiet work here: it signals sincerity while also acknowledging he’s speaking from the outside, without pretending to have front-office authority. This is an athlete using the soft power athletes actually have - narrative, credibility, and the ability to make a hiring feel emotionally inevitable.

The line “definitely still coach in this league” is pointed because it pushes back against the NFL-style churn of the NBA coaching carousel, where reputations can expire faster than skill. Garnett is framing Saunders as undervalued, maybe even forgotten, and he’s betting that competence plus trust still matter in a league obsessed with the next “innovator.”

Then there’s the clunky closer: “quicker than sooner.” It’s not polished, but that’s the tell. Garnett isn’t performing media eloquence; he’s reaching for urgency. The subtext is impatience with bureaucracy - interviews, search committees, brand-new “processes” - and a belief that Saunders belongs on a sideline now, not after another cycle of reinvention.

Context matters: Garnett came up under Saunders, and their bond symbolized stability in a franchise that rarely had it. This quote is less prediction than pressure, a small attempt to bend the league back toward people who earned trust the hard way.