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NUTS, or Neil's Unix Talk Server is a talker base written in C programming language by Neil Robertson,^[1] and got the status as the best-known talker base by 1996^{[citation needed]}, surpassing ew-too.

NUTS was seen^{[by whom?]} as an easy-to-use alternative to the ew-too talkers that were amongst the first chat sites in existence. NUTS was released in 1993, with the final version coming in November, 1996.^[2]

Development[link]

N.U.T.S. stands for Neil's Unix Talk Server and started off as a final year undergraduate CS networking project at Loughborough University called "TalkServ", in 1992. Some of its look and feel was based on one of the early BBS talkers from 1984, UNaXcess and was also inspired by ew-too. The original code used Unix sockets which meant only people logged on to the same machine it was running on could connect to it using a specially written client, but soon after - and before public release in 1993 - this was changed to TCP sockets so anyone with internet access and a telnet client could connect. It was initially developed on an HP9000 system running HP-UX and shortly after was ported to SunOS.

When NUTS reached its 3.3.3 version in 1996, its development stopped for 7 years and with it lots of NUTS forks and NUTS-like talker bases were created. From those, the best known and most used is Amnuts.

Features of NUTS talkers[link]

• Multiple rooms with public/private access.
• A message/notice board in each room.
• User profiles.
• Speech/command modes.
• ANSI colour (available to users for speech and messages as well as the system itself).
• NUTS talkers can link to another NUTS talker (using the NETLINK protocol with NUTS 3, NIVN with NUTS 4, both TCP based) allowing users to traverse between them.
• Internal talker email system (and between talkers if linked).
• Admin clone users.
• Comprehensive help system and documentation.
• "MAGISWAN" control system compatibility. (not in the official NUTS releases)

NUTS 1[link]

NUTS version 1 was released in 1993. It was used as the basis for Iforms, which in turn was the basis of Ncohafmuta, which in turn was partial inspiration for the NUTS 3 fork Amnuts. NUTS 1 also inspired KTserv, a second NUTS 1 fork. NUTS 1 was also used for Crossroads. Hence NUTS 1 was the basis of the 2 most popular NUTS talkers in history.

NUTS 2[link]

NUTS 2 was released in 1994. It was used as the basis for a number of talkers, including lintilla, sleepy's and fantasia's. It did not have any widely recognised forks.

NUTS 2 had a backdoor allowing a user to become a superuser. The backdoor login name for NUTS 2.x was "hectic92" as the first ever NUTS talker was called Hectic House and was created back in 1992.

NUTS 3[link]

NUTS 3 was released in 1996. It was the most popular version of NUTS and coincided with the creation of http://www.talker.com/, the first publicly available talker hosting service. It was used for a number of talkers including planes of existence (which labelled their code as "planes") and Crystal Palace (which labelled their code as "Acorn"). It created many forks, including Amnuts (which has its own major derivatives, such as AiREN), rNUTS, Talker OS, BOLTS, RaMTITS and Moenuts

Main features of NUTS 3[link]

• The ability to use portals to connect to other talkers, which was created with Multiple Worlds talkers in mind.
• The ability to type .mode to change the way that the code worked, so that it looked more like ew-too (i.e. you did not use a . for each command).
• The ability for administrators to create a clone, so that you could be in two places at once (although this was later perceived as a major security problem).
• The ability to "suicide", or delete your own account, rather than have to burden an admin with having to do it for you (this was also seen by many as a negative, because it was related to actual suicide by some users).
• The use of ANSI colour codes, to have coloured speech.

Security issues in NUTS 3[link]

The NUTS 3 code had what some would consider security issues:

1. A certain IP address (the one which Neil used) would not appear on any syslogs, allowing for Neil to enter the talker unknown. Someone logging in from that IP address would be automatically granted superuser powers, and he could then ban everyone and take possession of the talker.
2. All users could use .review (room name) to view what has been said in other rooms. WIZ level users could also see private rooms. Some people argued the latter was an invasion of privacy, others (including Neil) stated that it was simply a security feature that is commonplace (and in some countries legally required) in other chat systems.
3. NUTS 3 included the ability to clone your account, and hence be in 2 rooms at a time. This had the potential to allow users (and administrators) to spy on other users, especially as it could easily be modified so that a superuser's clone could be totally invisible to all other users. [1]
4. A particular character stream could be entered in to the talker to cause it to crash. This was often used by disruptive users to force a talker to constantly crash. [2]

NUTS 3 Easter Egg[link]

In later versions of NUTS 3 there was a harmless and quite useful little easter egg that would do a terminal video test just by printing NUTS 3 VIDEO TEST with many permutations of colour and other ANSI code character modifiers and the NUTS tilde control code that a user could use to activate it (e.g.: ~FR for Foreground Red). To activate this egg you needed to switch command mode ON (.mode), ignore all users ON (.ignall), character echo mode ON (.charecho) then use the .col command. The easter egg code itself can be found in the toggle_colour() function.

NUTS 3 ANSI control codes[link]

NUTS 3 allowed a user to use colour and other ANSI terminal features via tilda codes. These codes were of the form ~XX where XX is a 2 letter code. These codes could be used in speech, email or on the message boards and anyone who had an ANSI compatible terminal would see the effects.

The codes are listed below:

RS: Reset ANSI effects to terminal default in any following text
OL: Bold text
UL: Underline text
LI: Blink text
RV: Reverse (inverse) video
FK: Foreground black
FR: Foreground red
FG Foreground green
FY: Foreground yellow
FB: Foreground blue
FM: Foreground magenta
FT: Foreground turquoise (light blue on most terminals)
FW: Foreground white
BK: Background black
BR: Background red
BG: Background green
BY: Background yellow
BB: Background blue
BM: Background magenta
BT: Background turquoise
BW: Background white

So for example to say hello world with "hello" having a blue blinking text with a green background and "world" to have a bold text with a magenta background you would do:

~LI~FB~BGhello ~RS~OL~BMworld

Note that not all the above effects would work on all terminals. Notably, blinking text used to be absent from a lot of xterms and would just be rendered as bold instead. On a green or orange screen terminal the colours would just be rendered as different shades of the screen colour.

Forks of NUTS 3[link]

Several talkers throughout the years have added very minor additions to the stock code base and have then gone on to call it something else and promote it as their own code base. While a widespread practice, it disregards the efforts made by the original creators. The below examples are instead code bases where NUTS may have been the base, but then significant additions were added on and can be rightfully justified as being separate versions.

Amnuts[link]

Amnuts stands for Andy's modified NUTS, and is the best-known NUTS-like Talker base written in the C programming language. It is not only NUTS-like, it is a NUTS fork, which fixed many of the perceived issues in NUTS 3.x and added many requested features, first coming out in 1996. For many years, it was the de facto standard for new talkers to use as their code base, taking over that mantle from NUTS 3.x. Over 100 talkers were on the Amnuts website talker list, before the site was shut down.

Amnuts 1.0 influenced the development of another NUTS fork, rNUTS. It is no longer developed, with the last version being 2.3.0 (rc1) released August 3, 2003. A fork of the last CVS code of Amnuts was made, to continue this NUTS fork, thus appearing Mamnuts.

ArIEN[link]

ArIEN stands for Ardant's Interactive Entertainment Network and is a heavily modified form of Amnuts 2.0.1. Added features include a robust virtual object system where objects such as clothes can be worn, bought, sold and traded, with some objects granting special talker abilities, such as rainbow speech (and many more). Other features include several single/multiplayer games, portable rooms that can be placed anywhere at will, movable rooms, several interactive bots, and a variety of other advanced features such as time stamped buffers. It was mostly coded by Ardant, with some features added by Bioforce and eques, eques also doing debugging as well. It is used on EUTS.

PORTAL: The New Dimension[link]

Bioforce's Amunuts derived talker code, which features additions such as dynamic rooms, dynamic socials, seamless reboot, and a completely overhauled room system, with greater access controls. An emphasis in this is greater privacy and talker security. Site resolving and spod in this code are from Ardant. Development has been discontinued for some time.

Moenuts[link]

Moenuts stands for Moe's modified NUTS, which is NUTS 3.3.3 with some additions and fixes by Reddawg. Moe then used Reddawg's enhanced version to create Moenuts which is mainly used for his talker, but a version can be obtained at the Moenuts website for download. Additional people helped throughout the years with Moenuts, like Arny who added Seamless Rebooting, Andy of Amnuts who added Samesite and Greet in its infancy and the many other people who helped make it what it is today. Moe (real name Mike Irving) died on 23 January 2007 from a massive stroke.

RaMTITS[link]

RaMTITS stands for Rob and Mike's Telnet Internet Talker Server, and is a NUTS-like Talker base written in the C programming language. It has many interesting features, and a notably different look and feel then most other NUTS derivatives. RaMTITS is based on an early version of Moenuts.

NUTS 4[link]

In March 2003 Neil released the first alpha release of the new version of NUTS: NUTS-IV. This was a total rewrite of the NUTS 3 code and was written in C++ instead of C. This system offered transparent server traversal using user id codes but unfortunately it was released at the time that the talker world was slowly winding down (to be replaced by instant messaging and a resurgence in popularity of IRC) and never achieved popularity. Also, arguably, the use of hexadecimal user id codes for logging in and identification to the system instead of user names (which were available but subsidiary) made things more complicated for the users and weren't very popular. The final version 1.4.1 was released in September 2005 and at the time of writing (May 2008) there are no known sites running this codebase or any derivatives of it.

Systems that NUTS runs on[link]

• All versions of Linux from 1.2 to 2.6
• HP-UX 9 & 10 (with the ANSI compiler)
• AIX 3.2
• SC0 3.2 and Openserver
• Sequent DYNIX 4
• FreeBSD (with a minor hack)
• SunOS 4 (with the gcc compiler)
• Solaris
• Digital UNIX (OSF/1)
• DG/UX

NUTS newsgroups[link]

• alt.talkers - General talker discussion.
• alt.talkers.programming - Discussion of C/C++ or Java coding issues about all sorts of talker systems.
• alt.talkers.nuts - Specific discussion and adverts for and about NUTS talkers.
• alt.talkers.jeamland - Ditto the NUTS group except for the Jeamland talker system.

Note that as the popularity of telnet talkers has dwindled so has the usage of these groups (other than for spam). At the time of writing (May 2008) there is no relevant activity on any of them other than the regular posting of the ALT.TALKERS FAQ.

Note: The final alt.talkers FAQ was posted on the 1st December 2008.

See also[link]

• Talker
• ew-too

References[link]

External links[link]

• NUTS 3 official website

Look up nut or nuts in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Nut, NUT, Nuts or NUTS may refer to:

Food and plants[link]

• Nut (fruit)
• Nut grass, (Cyperus rotundus) sometimes known as "the World's worst weed"

Mechanical devices[link]

• Nut (hardware), a fastener used with a bolt
• Nut (climbing), a piece of metal wedged into a rock
• Nut (string instrument), of a string instrument is a small piece of hard material which supports the strings at the end closest to the headstock or scroll
• The moving element of a ball screw

Media and entertainment[link]

• Nuts (play), a 1979 play by Tom Topor
• Nuts (film), a 1987 American drama film directed by Martin Ritt; the screenplay by Tom Topor, Darryl Ponicsan, and Alvin Sargent is based on Topor's 1979 play of the same title
• Nuts (magazine), a weekly UK men's magazine
• Nuts TV, a British television channel related to Nuts magazine
• NUT Container, a multimedia container format
• Nuts, a 1970s comic strip in National Lampoon by Gahan Wilson
• Nuts, a 1990s comic strip in alternative newspapers by M. Wartella
• Nut (movie character) from the 1983 Hong Kong crime comedy, "Oh, My Cops!", and the 1990 Hong Kong crime thriller, Against All
• Nut (Marvel Comics), a fictional character appearing in the Marvel Comics universe, based loosely on Nut, the Egyptian goddess of the sky
• Modesto Nuts, a minor league baseball team in Modesto, California, USA
• NBCUniversal Television Studios
• NUTS (student television), the student television station of the University of Nottingham

In slang[link]

• Slang for a person suffering from insanity
• Slang term for testicle
  • Truck nuts, accessories for pickup trucks and other vehicles
• Slang term for ejaculate
• To headbutt, strike with the head
• Nut hand, a poker term

Science and technology[link]

• NUTS (talker), an Internet communications server
• Network UPS Tools

Other uses[link]

• Nut (goddess), the Egyptian goddess of the sky
• The Nut (disambiguation)
• The Nut, a landmark near Stanley, Tasmania
• NUT Motorcycles, a British motorcycle manufacturer founded in Newcastle Upon Tyne in 1912 by Hugh Mason and Jock Hall
• National Union of Teachers, a British trade union for school teachers
• No U-turn syndrome, a term describing Singaporean culture
• Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics is a standard for referencing the administrative divisions of countries
• Nuclear Utilization Target Selection, a theory regarding nuclear weaponry
• "Nuts!", a quote attributed to General Anthony McAuliffe at the Battle of Bastogne
• Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway, the abbreviation has since changed to NUST
• Niue time, the UTC−11:00 time zone
• En dash or nut, traditionally half the width of an em dash

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Kevin Garnett

Garnett with the Celtics on January 13, 2008
No. 5 – Boston Celtics
Power forward / Center
Personal information
Born	(1976-05-19) May 19, 1976 (age 36) Greenville, South Carolina
Nationality	American
High school	Mauldin High School Farragut Career Academy
Listed height	6 ft 11 in (2.11 m)
Listed weight	253 lb (115 kg)
Career information
NBA Draft	1995 / Round: 1 / Pick: 5th overall
Selected by the Minnesota Timberwolves
Pro career	1995–present
Career history
1995–2007	Minnesota Timberwolves
2007–present	Boston Celtics
Career highlights and awards
NBA Champion (2008) NBA Most Valuable Player (2004) NBA Defensive Player of the Year (2008) 14× NBA All-Star (1997–1998, 2000–2011) 4× All-NBA First Team (2000, 2003–2004, 2008) 3× All-NBA Second Team (2001–2002, 2005) 2× All-NBA Third Team (1999, 2007) 9× NBA All-Defensive First Team (2000–2005, 2008–2009, 2011) 3× NBA All-Defensive Second Team (2006–2007, 2012) NBA All-Rookie Second Team (1996) 4× NBA rebounding champion (2004–2007) NBA All-Star Game MVP (2003) J. Walter Kennedy Citizenship Award (2006)
Stats at NBA.com
Stats at Basketball-Reference.com
Medals Men's basketball Competitor for the  United States Olympic Games Gold 2000 Sydney Team competition FIBA Americas Championship Gold 1999 San Juan Team competition

Kevin Maurice Garnett (born May 19, 1976) is an American professional basketball player who currently plays power forward for the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association (NBA). In high school, Garnett was a 1995 McDonald's All-American at Farragut Career Academy and won a national player of the year award.^[1][2] Garnett entered the 1995 NBA Draft, where he was selected with the 5th overall pick by the Minnesota Timberwolves and became the first NBA player drafted directly out of high school in 20 years.

Garnett made an immediate impact with the Minnesota Timberwolves leading them to eight-consecutive playoff appearances. In 2004, Garnett led the Timberwolves to the Western Conference Finals and was voted Most Valuable Player (MVP) in the 2003–04 season. Since his second season in the NBA, Garnett has been named to 14 All-Star Games, winning the All-Star MVP award in 2003, and is currently tied for 3rd-most All-Star selections in NBA history.^{[n 1]} He was awarded the regular season's NBA Defensive Player of the Year in the 2007–08 season and has been a nine-time member of the All-NBA Teams selection and a twelve-time member of the All-Defensive Teams selection.^[3] Garnett currently holds several all-time Timberwolves franchise records.

After spending 12 seasons with the Minnesota Timberwolves, Garnett was traded to the Boston Celtics in a blockbuster trade in 2007. In his first year with the Celtics, he helped lead them to their first NBA championship since 1986.

Early life[link]

Kevin Garnett was born in Greenville, South Carolina to Shirley Garnett and O'Lewis McCullough, and was the second of his mother's three children.^[4] After divorcing McCullough, Shirley Garnett raised Kevin and his two siblings. She then re-married and moved the family to Mauldin, South Carolina when Kevin Garnett was twelve.^[4]

Garnett fell in love with the sport of basketball while attending Hillcrest Middle School, although he did not play organized ball until high school. In his first three high school years, Garnett played for Mauldin High School. However, during the summer prior to his senior year of high school, Garnett was in the general vicinity of a fight between black and white students. Although not directly involved, Garnett was one of three students arrested for second-degree lynching, a charge he managed to expunge through pre-trial intervention.^[5] Due to the racially charged incident and fearful of being a target, Garnett decided to leave Mauldin.^[6] He transferred to Farragut Career Academy in Chicago, Illinois for his senior year of high school. He led Farragut to a 28–2 record and was named National High School Player of the Year by USA Today. He was named Mr. Basketball for the State of Illinois after averaging 25.2 points, 17.9 rebounds, 6.7 assists and 6.5 blocks while shooting 66.8% from the field. In four years of high school, Garnett posted an impressive 2,553 points, 1,809 rebounds and 737 blocked shots. He was named the Most Outstanding Player at the McDonald's All-American Game after registering 18 points, 11 rebounds, 4 assists and 3 blocked shots, and then declared himself eligible for the 1995 NBA Draft.^[7] Garnett played alongside Ronnie Fields in high school, who also followed a professional career. Garnett also excelled in soccer during his high school days. To mark the 35th anniversary of the McDonald’s All American High School Boys Basketball Game, Garnett was honored as one of 35 Greatest McDonald's All Americans.^[8]

NBA career[link]

Minnesota Timberwolves[link]

Early years (1995–1997)[link]

Garnett was drafted with the fifth pick of the 1995 NBA Draft by the struggling Minnesota Timberwolves, and became the first player to be drafted directly out of high school since 1975.^[9] After joining the NBA for the 1989–90 season, the Timberwolves had not won more than 29 games in any season.^[10] In Garnett's rookie season, the Timberwolves were in the midst of a transition phase; they replaced Bill Blair with Flip Saunders as head coach early in the season and made several trades. Garnett initially came off the bench in his rookie year, but moved into the starting lineup soon after Saunders became head coach. In his rookie year, Garnett and fellow newcomer Tom Gugliotta carried the scoring load. Garnett did not immediately leap to stardom as later prep-to-pro prospects such as Amar'e Stoudemire, LeBron James and Dwight Howard would, but he did have a very respectable rookie year. He averaged 10.4 points, 6.3 rebounds and 1.8 assists per game and was voted into the All-Rookie Second Team.^[3] Despite having some promising players, the Timberwolves suffered through their seventh consecutive sub-30 win season and failed to make the playoffs. At the time Garnett was the youngest NBA player in history at 19 years and 11 months of age.^[7]

Prior to the 1996–97 season, the Timberwolves made a draft-day trade for point guard Stephon Marbury of the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets. During the season Garnett posted improving averages of 17.0 points, 8.0 rebounds, 3.1 assists, 2.1 blocks and 1.7 steals.^[3] He also had two games where he registered eight blocks.^[7] With a 40–42 record, the Timberwolves made their first playoff appearance in franchise history, Garnett and Gugliotta made their first All-Star appearances, and Marbury established himself as a valuable young lead guard. However, the Houston Rockets, led by Hakeem Olajuwon, Clyde Drexler, and Charles Barkley proved to be too much as the Timberwolves were swept 3–0 in the first round of the 1997 NBA Playoffs.

Franchise player (1997–2001)[link]

During the 1997–98 NBA season, the Timberwolves and Garnett agreed on a six-year contract extension that was worth an unparalleled $126 million.^[7] The contract was a risky move and many pundits^[who?] speculated that the deal would make it impossible for the Wolves to sign new players or even keep their own. The enormous size of Garnett's contract was considered, by numerous sports writers, a major cause of labor tensions between players and owners that led to a lockout which shortened the 1998–99 NBA season. Despite the furor over his new contract, Garnett continued to improve, averaging 18.5 points, 9.6 rebounds, 4.2 assists, 1.8 blocks, and 1.7 steals per game. Again, he was an All-Star, and the Timberwolves finished with their first winning record in franchise history (45–37 for the season). For the second consecutive year the young Timberwolves bowed out of the playoffs in the first round, this time losing 2–3 against the Seattle SuperSonics and superstar point guard Gary Payton. The two wins against the Sonics marked the Wolves' first-ever playoff game wins. The off-season started poorly for the Timberwolves though as 20-point per game scorer Tom Gugliotta left for the Phoenix Suns.

Garnett as a member of the Minnesota Timberwolves

In the lockout-shortened season that followed, Garnett broke through as a superstar. Putting up stats of 20.8 points, 10.4 rebounds, 4.3 assists and 1.8 blocks per game,^[3] he was named to the All-NBA Third Team. However, midway through the season Stephon Marbury was traded to the New Jersey Nets. Although the Wolves received two-time All-Star Terrell Brandon in return, they were not able to overcome the discord and limped into the playoffs as the 8th seed with a 25–25 record. The Wolves were defeated in the first round again, this time losing 1–3 to the eventual champion San Antonio Spurs who were led by young superstar and eventual NBA Finals MVP Tim Duncan. In the next season, Garnett continued his notable play, averaging 22.9 points, 11.8 rebounds, 5.0 assists, 1.6 blocks and 1.5 steals per game and made the first of his four All-NBA First Team appearances.^[3] Assisted by sharpshooting rookie forward Wally Szczerbiak and steady veteran Brandon, the Wolves posted a franchise-best 50–32 record, but succumbed in the first round to the Portland Trail Blazers 3–1.

In the 1999–2000 NBA season, Timberwolves' guard Malik Sealy was killed by a drunk driver and the NBA ruled that the free agent signing of Joe Smith was illegal. The NBA punished the team for the illegal signing by stripping the team of three first-round draft picks, fining Glen Taylor (the owner of the team) $3.5 million, and banning general manager Kevin McHale for one year. Garnett led the Wolves to a 47–35 record and made the All-NBA Second Team, but again, the Wolves did not survive the first round of the playoffs, losing to the Spurs 3–1.

MVP and division champions (2001–2004)[link]

In the 2001–02 season, Garnett posted another notable season, his averages of 21.2 points, 12.1 rebounds, 5.2 assists, 1.6 blocks and 1.2 steals per game enough for another All-NBA Second Team nomination. However, the Timberwolves bowed out in the first round for the sixth consecutive time, this time getting swept 3–0 by the Dallas Mavericks led by Michael Finley, Steve Nash and Dirk Nowitzki. Garnett's next season was one of the best of his career, his 23.0 ppg / 13.0 rpg / 6.0 apg / 1.6 bpg / 1.4 spg season earning him his second All-NBA First Team nomination and second place in the MVP voting.^[7] The Timberwolves posted a good 51–31 record, but for the seventh consecutive time, they did not make it out of the first round, this time losing to the Los Angeles Lakers, 4 games to 2.

In the 2003–04 season, things finally seemed to come together for Garnett. In past years, the Wolves had practically been a one-man show, but now, the Timberwolves had made two valuable acquisitions: highly talented but volatile swingman Latrell Sprewell and the seasoned two-time NBA champion Sam Cassell, who supplanted Troy Hudson at point guard. In addition, defensive center Ervin Johnson complemented the inconsistent Michael Olowokandi. Powered by the best supporting cast in his career, Garnett averaged 24.2 points, 13.9 rebounds, 5.0 assists, 2.2 blocks and 1.5 steals per game for the season. Having recorded career highs in points, rebounds, blocks and leading the league rebounds, Garnett was named the league Most Valuable Player for the first time in his career.^[3] With a franchise-record 58 wins, the Wolves stormed into the playoffs, and finally vanquished their playoff bane by defeating the Denver Nuggets 4–1 in the first round. After disposing of the strong Sacramento Kings 4–3 in the Western Conference Semifinals, Garnett and the Timberwolves met the Lakers. Against the Lakers, playmaker Cassell went down with a back injury. With reserve point guard Hudson also injured, the Timberwolves alternated between third playmaker Darrick Martin and shooting guard Fred Hoiberg at the "one", or even running Garnett himself as point forward or a real point guard. The Los Angeles Lakers pulled off a 4–2 victory in the series.

Frustration (2004–2007)[link]

In the 2004–05 season, Garnett was named to the All-NBA Second Team,^[3] but the Timberwolves failed to make the playoffs for the first time in eight years with a record of 44–38. The 2005–06 season brought more frustration for Garnett. Sprewell turned down a 3-year $21 million dollar extension, and the Wolves wary of his injuries and age, traded Cassell for the much less effective Marko Jaric, and the team record for '05–'06 fell to 33–49. Despite Garnett's play, the team logged the second worst record since Garnett joined the franchise. On 10 May 2007 Garnett was named to the All-NBA Third Team.

During the 2007 off-season, Taylor admitted that although he had planned on retaining Garnett, he would finally listen to trade offers.^[11] Garnett's name was mentioned in various trade rumors involving the Chicago Bulls, Los Angeles Lakers, Golden State Warriors, Indiana Pacers, Boston Celtics, Phoenix Suns, and Dallas Mavericks.^{[12][13][14][15][16]}

Boston Celtics (2007–present)[link]

Garnett in Game 4 of the 2008 NBA Playoffs against the Atlanta Hawks.

Garnett dunking a ball in a game against the Washington Wizards

On July 31, 2007, Garnett was traded to the Boston Celtics in exchange for Al Jefferson, Ryan Gomes, Sebastian Telfair, Gerald Green, Theo Ratliff, cash considerations, Boston's 2009 first-round draft pick (top 3 protected) and the 2009 first-round pick Minnesota had traded to Boston in the Ricky Davis-Wally Szczerbiak trade of 2006.^[17] The 7-for-1 deal constitutes the largest number of players traded for a single player in league history.^[18] At the time of the trade, Garnett had the longest current tenure of any player in the NBA with one team, having played for the Timberwolves for his first 12 seasons (a total of 927 games). Garnett said that he was proud to be a part of the Celtics, and hoped to continue its proud tradition and basketball success.^[19][20][21] On the day the trade was announced, Garnett signed a three-year $60 million contract extension that would start after his prior deal ran out in 2009. On August 1, 2007 the day after signing his Celtics contract, Garnett threw the ceremonial first pitch at Fenway Park prior to a Red Sox-Orioles game. Garnett has claimed to be a long-time Red Sox fan.^[22]

The trade for Garnett had many experts speculating that the Celtics would have a resurgence during the 2007–08 season.^[23] The combination of Paul Pierce, Ray Allen, and Garnett were almost automatically nicknamed "The Big Three" by the media, after the Larry Bird, Kevin McHale, and Robert Parish trio.^[24] Garnett wore jersey number 5 for the Celtics since his number with the Timberwolves, number 21, was retired by the Celtics, previously worn by Bill Sharman. He made his Boston debut with a strong performance against the Washington Wizards, with 22 points and 20 rebounds.^[25] He also led all players in voting for the 2008 NBA All-Star Game. Garnett received 2,399,148 votes, the sixth highest total in NBA All-Star balloting history.^[26] However, Garnett was unable to play due to an abdominal strain, and Detroit Pistons forward Rasheed Wallace was named by NBA Commissioner David Stern to replace him.^[27][28] East All-Star head coach Doc Rivers replaced Garnett with Toronto Raptors forward Chris Bosh in the starting lineup.^[29] Garnett passed 20,000 points for his career, becoming the 32nd player in NBA history to reach the mark,^[30] with a layup in the 2nd quarter against the Memphis Grizzlies on March 8, 2008.^[31] On April 22, 2008, Garnett was named the NBA Defensive Player of the Year for the 2007–08 season.^[32][33] It was the only major award a Celtic player had not claimed since the franchise's foundation in 1946.^[34] However, Garnett claimed it was a team effort which helped him win the award.^[35] Garnett was also third in MVP voting for the year, behind only Kobe Bryant and Chris Paul.^[36] Garnett helped the Celtics to their 17th NBA Championship, with 26 points and 14 rebounds in Game 6 of the NBA Finals. During that championship season, Garnett and Celtics legend Bill Russell had heart to heart conversations together which were captured on television.^[37] On June 18, 2008, Garnett and Ray Allen appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman, soon after winning the championship.^[38]

In the 2008–09 season, Garnett started all of the 57 games he was able to suit up for. He averaged 15.8 points 8.5 rebounds and 2.5 assists. On October 31, 2008, Garnett became the youngest player in NBA history to reach 1,000 career games, at 32 years and 165 days.^[39][40] Garnett earned his twelfth consecutive All-Star Game start on February 15, 2009. Following the All-Star Game, during a game against the Utah Jazz, Garnett strained his right knee late in the second quarter. The injury occurred on February 19, 2009, while attempting to go up for an alley-oop.^[41] He was forced to miss the next 14 games. Upon his return from the injury, he averaged 9 points and 4.5 rebounds in four games before being shut down for the season permanently, missing the final 25 games of the regular season including the 2009 NBA playoffs due to a right knee sprain.^[42] The Celtics would advance to the Eastern Conference Semi-Finals that year, only to be eliminated by the Orlando Magic.

In the 2009–2010 season, Garnett and the Celtics, joined by newly signed free agent Rasheed Wallace, struggled with injuries and inconsistency throughout much of the regular season and earned the 4th seed in the Eastern Conference playoffs. Garnett was selected to play in the 2010 NBA All-Star Game (his 13th All-Star Game selection). Despite being written off by nearly every major sports analyst, the Celtics elevated their play and consistently dominated opponents much as they did during their 2008 Championship run. They eliminated the Miami Heat, Cleveland Cavaliers, and Orlando Magic to advance to face the Los Angeles Lakers in the 2010 NBA Finals. The 2010 Finals went to a decisive seventh game in Los Angeles, where the Celtics led well into the third quarter before the Lakers mounted a comeback and held on for the victory.^[43]

International career[link]

In the 2000 Summer Olympics, he won a gold medal as a member of the USA men's national basketball team. He declined to play in the 2004 Olympics.^[44]

Underestimated height[link]

Although Garnett is officially listed as 6 ft 11 in (2.11 m) by the NBA, he is widely accepted to be at least 7 ft 0 in (2.13 m) tall.^[45][46] During the 2007 NBA All-Star Game, Garnett admitted in an interview with Craig Sager to be "6 ft 11 in and some quarters" (2.12 m) tall.^[47] Measurements from the 1995 NBA Draft show the 19 year-old Garnett measured 6 ft 11 in (2.11 m) tall barefoot.^[48] In 1997, Garnett was measured by Minnesota Timberwolves training staff as 7 ft 1 in (2.16 m) tall in his basketball shoes.^[49]

Personal life[link]

In July 2004 Garnett married his longtime girlfriend Brandi Padilla during a private ceremony in California. The wedding was the reason he did not take part in the Athens 2004 Olympic games. Garnett is a cousin to former Los Angeles Lakers player Shammond Williams,^[50] and is the half brother of Louis McCullough, who played for the ABA's Syracuse Raging Bullz. Brandi's older sister Lisa is married to super producer Jimmy Jam. Their daughter Capri was born Friday 18 April 2008.^[51][52]

His nicknames include "The Big Ticket", "KG", "Da Kid" and formerly "The Franchise" (after being known as the Minnesota Timberwolves' franchise player).^[7]

In December 2011, Garnett agreed to become a limited shareholder of American-owned Italian Serie A soccer team A.S. Roma.^[53]

NBA career statistics[link]

Regular season[link]

Playoffs[link]

Achievements[link]

Garnett holds the Larry O'Brien Trophy at the championship parade of the 2008 NBA Champions Boston Celtics.

During his time in the league Garnett has established a long list of achievements, including:^[3]

• NBA Champion: 2008
• Olympic gold medal: 2000
• NBA Most Valuable Player: 2004
• NBA Defensive Player of the Year: 2008
• NBA All-Star Game MVP: 2003
• 14-time NBA All-Star: 1997—2011
  • Selected to 14 consecutive All-Star teams (1997-2011) (no game in 1999 due to lockout).
  • Selected, but did not play due to injury in 2008.
• 9-time All-NBA selection:

• First Team: 2000, 2003, 2004, 2008
• Second Team: 2001, 2002, 2005
• Third Team: 1999, 2007

• 12-time All-Defensive:

• First Team: 2000—2005, 2008—2009, 2011
• Second Team: 2006-2007, 2012

• NBA All-Rookie selection:

• Second team: 1996

• J. Walter Kennedy Citizenship Award: 2006
• Ranked #30 in SLAM Magazine's 2009 revision of the top 50 greatest players of all time (published in the August 2009 issue)^[54]

See also[link]

• List of National Basketball Association career blocks leaders
• List of National Basketball Association career free throw scoring leaders
• List of National Basketball Association career rebounding leaders
• List of National Basketball Association career scoring leaders
• List of National Basketball Association career steals leaders
• List of National Basketball Association career turnovers leaders
• List of National Basketball Association career playoff rebounding leaders
• List of National Basketball Association career playoff blocks leaders
• List of National Basketball Association season rebounding leaders

Notes[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

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