But on that night in Boston, as Doo recalls, Garnett partook, then played. Garnett had not, to that point, made the PB&J a part of his pregame routine.
'Man, I could go for a PB&J,' the player said.Īnd then Garnett, in an act with historical reverberations, uttered the now-fabled words: 'Yeah, let's get on that.' Bryan Doo, Celtics strength and conditioning coach, recalls it as if it were yesterday, how before a game in December of that season, an unnamed Celtic - his identity lost to history, like the other horsemen on Paul Revere's midnight ride - complained to Doo of incipient hunger pangs. The tale they tell is of Kevin Garnett and the 2007-08 Celtics, and the seminal moment of a revolution.
The legend has been passed down by NBA generations, chronicled like a Homeric odyssey. Editor's note: This story was originally published on March 21, 2017.
