{"id":515488,"date":"2026-09-14T15:34:47","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T13:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=515488"},"modified":"2026-09-14T15:34:47","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T13:34:47","slug":"kevin-garnett-fired-agent-after-122-million-offer-was-rejected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/kevin-garnett-fired-agent-after-122-million-offer-was-rejected\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Garnett fired agent after $122 million offer was rejected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1376\" data-end=\"1576\">Kevin Garnett revealed on the <em data-start=\"1406\" data-end=\"1420\">Knuckleheads<\/em> podcast that he fired his agent after learning the representative had rejected a $122 million offer from the Minnesota Timberwolves without consulting him.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1578\" data-end=\"1810\">\u201cI\u2019m in Jamaica, I open USA Today and the first thing says, \u2018Garnett denies $122 million,\u2019\u201d Garnett recalled. \u201cI never got to deny anything. The agent did. I told him, \u2018Don\u2019t be speaking for me.\u2019 I didn\u2019t like that, so I fired him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1812\" data-end=\"2033\">Garnett eventually signed a record $126 million contract. \u201cI probably would\u2019ve taken the $122 million,\u201d he admitted, while acknowledging that the negotiations taught him how the business of professional basketball worked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The former MVP discovered the Timberwolves\u2019 offer had been turned down while reading a newspaper on vacation in Jamaica<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":371773,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-515488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/02\/Minnesota-Timberwolves.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=515488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515488"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=515488"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=515488"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=515488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}