The Brooklyn Nets star discussed how often he considered retirement and his motivation coming into the new season. Hit the jump for details.
Via ESPN:
“I like to come in each year and assess it,” Garnett said Friday at the team’s annual media day. “I’ve always said the days when I’m not feeling basketball again, which is absurd, or when I don’t have the motivation to come in here, it’s time to move on. But that’s not the case. I’m very much motivated. I’m looking to have a better year than last year and I’m looking to enjoy this year.”
Kevin Garnett was noncommittal when asked if this upcoming season, his 20th in the NBA, will be his last before retiring.
Garnett, who is in the final year of his contract and will make $12 million in 2014-15, said he contemplated retirement — as he had the previous two seasons — after the Nets were ousted by the Miami Heat in the second round of the playoffs, but ultimately decided to come back.“[Retirement is] always somewhere in there, especially when you come up short of your goal for the year,” Garnett said. “But I must admit these last three years I’ve thought about life and where basketball is as far as priority. So yeah, in the back of your mind you think about it. But the decision is yes or no. It’s not like 50-50 I’m in the middle of the road or gray area. I’m a person that when you commit to something, you commit to it. It’s that simple.”
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