Kevin Garnett beat Glen 'Big Baby' Davis in epic arm-wrestling match
Crazy stuff goes down on team planes and in locker rooms. Thursday, Doc Rivers gave us a little window into seeing exactly what "crazy stuff" entails.
Rivers told an incredible story to Sports Illustrated about arm wrestling, Kevin Garnett, Glen "Big Baby" Davis and how K.G.'s competitive streak extends way beyond the court.
If that doesn't make you want to read the following pull quote, I don't know what will. From SI:
A story that will forever remain in Rivers’s mind occurred on a Celtics flight in 2010. Glen “Big Baby” Davis defeated all of his teammates in arm wrestling contests before the flight, and the only man left to conquer on the plane was Garnett. Flying at an altitude of 35,000 feet, the team crowded around to watch the spectacle.
“I thought someone was going to get hurt,” said Rivers. “The whole team was in the back of the plane, and I thought Kevin was going to get hurt. ‘Big Baby’ is huge, and he weighs a hundred more pounds than Kevin. He ran through everyone else in a second, just bam, bam. I knew Kevin would try to win, and I remember telling the coaches, ‘I don’t like this at all.’ I kept saying to the team, ‘Hey guys, let’s be careful here.’
“If I could get anything on camera, this would be it. It was the most amazing display of will power and mind power. Kevin stared him in the eye and looked at him. He wouldn’t stop. You could see ‘Baby’ go from wanting to win to literally seeing him break down mentally. Kevin made Baby give in. Kevin was just staring at him, saying ‘I’m not moving. You’re not going to move me.’ Then bam, Kevin won.”
You think that's it? You think Garnett would just walk away and not say anything.
C'mon, we're talking about the ANYTHING IS POSSIBLEEEEEEEEEEE guy. We're talking about the guy who Rajon Rondo started laughing at during a media day interview because he wouldn't stop screaming in the locker room purely because he gets super pumped up for things.
You think K.G. is done? Think again.
More from SI:
Garnett shouted, “I’m the alpha male! I’m the alpha dog!”
“And Kevin used the F-word during his celebration,” said a smiling Rivers. “He uses it as a noun, adjective, and verb. That’s his word. Like Tom Brady has said, it’s a pretty good word.”
It's official. Garnett is the best man alive. And Big Baby, I'm not sorry for your loss.
(h/t Sports Illustrated)
