Nba: “Senzafilter”, the biography of Garnett, is released in Italy

Without filter. It is not just the title of the biography of Kevin Garnett, coming to Italy in these days published by Libreria Pienogiorno. It was his way of being on the pitch, with that explosive talent that made him one of the most dominant longs of the third millennium and with that unique ability to get into the heads of the opponents, like a master of trash talking, that made him even more fearful. Without a filter it is also his way of telling himself, in a book as unique as he was.

best seller

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Garnett really gets naked in this autobiography that has become a best seller in the US. He tells his life and his career in his own way, from A to Z for practicality and for that attention deficit from which he discovered he was suffering only when his NBA career had already begun. The alphabet is the only logical thread that follows: it is told by letters, by topics, jumping from childhood in South Carolina to the ring with Boston, from the formative experience in the streets of Chicago to the Olympic adventure. The result is a raw portrait of a champion who made the leap from high school to the NBA in 1995, who built a Hall of Fame career on that desire to fight he learned in the Windy City. “In the Nba you don’t survive if you behave like a good guy – he says -. If you want to survive for so long in the Nba you have to be an asshole”. Garnett’s story is not just basketball: it is racism, spirituality, music, religion, life always lived at the highest level, trying to win every challenge that is presented to him.

Kobe and the greats

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Garnett isn’t just raw. He also knows how to open a hole like few others behind the scenes of the NBA. One of the chapters in which he most gets naked is the one in which he talks about Kobe Bryant. Di Bean, as he calls it, of their career-long friendship between them, even when they were rivals in the 2008 and 2010 Finals. “I, like the rest of the world, will feel Bean’s spirit for the rest of our days.” . The comparison with the other greats, from Jordan to LeBron, is one of the other leitmotifs of the book. A confrontation in which Garnett talks about the challenge on the pitch but also what happened outside. Without a filter, as he has always managed to do.