KG has fallen into the trap of thinking people can’t be racist if they are nice to you.
A racist can look you right in the face and give you a compliment and still be racist. He or she can sit down and have coffee with you every morning and still be racist.
Sports fans are often groupies for athletes on the court, but white supremacists when the games are over, so this is bad take from KG.
“I’m used to racism (as somebody who grew up in South Carolina), I’m used to interacting with it. I was comfortable with being able to exchange in it, to control it,” Garnett said. “And when I got to Boston, it was a different feel. People weren’t racist towards me. It was, ‘Oh, shit, the Ticket.’ Can I get a picture? Black, white, green, purple, it didn’t matter. Everybody was happy and wanted to talk about the game. It was cool. Then they saw me running through the rope, diving on the floor. That’s when they were like, ‘God damn.’ You give everything there, they give it back to you.”
“The narrative of Boston before you get there is that it’s a racist town, people speak their minds there. And all it is is no different from Miami or Southern Florida and you’re a Hurricanes fan, or you’re a Gator fan. If you’re not from Massachusetts or a Northeasterner, you wouldn’t understand.”
When it comes to Kyrie, KG says he didn’t have the balls to play in Boston.
Flip the page to see what he had to say.
