{"id":13769,"date":"2025-12-18T15:10:05","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T15:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/?p=13769"},"modified":"2025-12-18T15:10:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T15:10:09","slug":"sources-kevin-garnett-rejoins-timberwolves-in-off-court-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/?p=13769","title":{"rendered":"Sources: Kevin Garnett rejoins Timberwolves in off-court role"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>Hall of Famer Kevin Garnett has agreed to reunite with the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"13f727cb-254d-b484-a337-93fcc0047add\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/min\/minnesota-timberwolves\">Minnesota Timberwolves<\/a> and <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"d815e23c-aa3e-3490-d7be-f876d1e30e8a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/wnba\/team\/_\/name\/min\/minnesota-lynx\">Minnesota Lynx<\/a> in a new, all-encompassing role involving business, community and fan-engagement efforts and content development, sources told ESPN on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The Timberwolves also will hold Garnett&#8217;s much-awaited No. 21 jersey retirement ceremony in Minnesota over the next two seasons, sources said.<\/p>\n<p>Garnett had been distant from the Timberwolves since his playing career ended in 2016 due to a fallout with former owner Glen Taylor refusing to have his jersey retired, but he built a rapport with new governors Marc Lore and Alex Rodriguez and the sides found common ground on a reunion.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline editorial float-r\" data-behavior=\"article_related\">\n<h2 class=\"editorial-title\">Editor&#8217;s Picks<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/46360925\/minnesota-timberwolves-nba-throwback-uniforms\" class=\"img-link\"><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/45719923\/marc-lore-alex-rodriguez-eager-make-wolves-fans-proud\" class=\"img-link\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/r1517890_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&amp;w=130&amp;h=130&amp;scale=crop&amp;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>1 Related<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Timberwolves officials finalized the terms of Garnett&#8217;s return to the franchise this month with his business manager Rich Gray and attorney George Daniel.<\/p>\n<p>Garnett, a 15-time NBA All-Star, is the Timberwolves&#8217; all-time leader in points, rebounds, assists, steals and blocks. He is the only NBA player to lead a franchise in those five categories. Garnett is also the only player in Timberwolves history to win an MVP (2003-04).<\/p>\n<p>He led the Timberwolves to eight straight playoff appearances between 1996-97 and 2003-04, the last of those being their only campaign a playoff series win until their 2024 West finals run.<\/p>\n<p>In the months following their agreement to buy the Timberwolves for a $1.5 billion valuation in 2021, Lore and Rodriguez prioritized strengthening the franchise&#8217;s culture as well as its relationship with alumni players and staffers, led by the iconic Garnett.<\/p>\n<p>Under Lore and Rodriguez, the Timberwolves have invested significant resources across the organization &#8212; including commitments for a front office staff featuring president of basketball operations Tim Connelly, entering the luxury tax for a third consecutive season and continuing to progress on plans for a new arena in downtown Minneapolis over the next decade.<\/p>\n<p>The Timberwolves (17-10) are again fighting for postseason positioning in the West after two straight conference finals appearances.\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/47345176\/sources-garnett-reuniting-timberwolves-court-role\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hall of Famer Kevin Garnett has agreed to reunite with the Minnesota Timberwolves and Minnesota Lynx in a new, all-encompassing role involving business, community and fan-engagement efforts and content development, sources told ESPN on Thursday. The Timberwolves also will hold Garnett&#8217;s much-awaited No. 21 jersey retirement ceremony in Minnesota over the next two seasons, sources &#8230; <a title=\"Sources: Kevin Garnett rejoins Timberwolves in off-court role\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/?p=13769\" aria-label=\"Read more about Sources: Kevin Garnett rejoins Timberwolves in off-court role\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13770,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Sources-Kevin-Garnett-rejoins-Timberwolves-in-off-court-role.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13769"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13771,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13769\/revisions\/13771"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}