The basketball legend also argued that Americans are much superior skill-wise and can play at both ends of the floor.
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NBA greats Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce debated which is better between American and international players amid the new All-Star Game format.
Kevin Garnett
Kevin Garnett
Position: PF
Age: 49
Height: 211 cm
Weight: 115 kg
Birth place: Greenville, United States of America
While Pierce argued that international players are far superior right now due to their youth basketball system and the fact that there hasn't been any American MVP since James Harden (2018), Garnett retaliated by noting that United States players will destroy them at any lineup and both ends of the floor.
The Minnesota Timberwolves great also insisted that international players can't defend and have influenced flopping in the league.
"International guys have brought a bunch of flopping into the game," he said in the latest episode of Ticket & The Truth. "I can't fuck*ng stand it … They are running up and down saying something to the ref. We got all this flopping and sh*t, man. We weren't doing that sh*t before all that, bro. Like, I get it. It's been some greatness, and it's been some weirdness that we've taken from that, bro.
"I hate that narrative. Like, since international players are starting younger, they are—So what? They're not putting out a better product. That's what I'm saying."
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