For Kevin Garnett, apparently it is.
Garnett has always been known as an intense guy, but he reinforced that reputation with his comments on WEEI following the Celtics' win in their series opener against the Philadelphia 76ers.
"I'd die out here if I had to, and that's real talk," Garnett told Sean Grande and Cedric Maxwell. "I've been doing this for a long time and there are ways where I know how to conserve energy. I get it at the free throw line and when guys are shooting free throws. Those are valuable seconds for me. When I train in the summer, I train for a lack of rest. I program my body to recover as quickly as it can. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't."
The Sixers may notice a marked change in attitude from another All-Star big man they faced in the last round. Chicago's Carlos Boozer seemed to shrug off the Bulls' loss to the Sixers by noting that his team won the top seed in the Eastern Conference, and "that's all that matters."
That is not all that matters to Garnett. The Big Ticket surely was exaggerating about dying, but given how he has played this postseason, he may not have been exaggerating very much.
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