The 2008 Finals saw a rematch of the league's highest profile rivalry, the Boston Celtics and Los Angeles Lakers, with the Celtics prevailing, for their league leading 17th championship, thanks to their new big three of Paul Pierce, Ray Allen, and Kevin Garnett.

* May 19 – Kevin Garnett, American basketball player

However, he did stress the right offer would have to be made in order for the Heat to even consider such a trade ( e. g., the Kevin Garnett trade to Boston from the 2007 offseason ).

Then rumors surfaced that the Bulls were pursuing stars like Kevin Garnett, Pau Gasol, and most notably, Kobe Bryant.

Like most expansion teams, the Timberwolves struggled in their early years ; but after the acquisition of Kevin Garnett in the 1995 NBA Draft, the team made the playoffs eight consecutive times from 1997 to 2004.

Kevin Garnett played for the Timberwolves from 1995 – 2007.

In the 1995 draft, the Timberwolves selected high school standout Kevin Garnett in the first round ( 5th overall ), and Flip Saunders was named head coach.

These trades paved the way for rookie Kevin Garnett to become the go-to player inside.

The addition of Marbury had a positive effect on the entire team, as Kevin Garnett and Tom Gugliotta became the first Wolves to be selected to the All-Star team.

In 1997, Kevin Garnett and Stephon Marbury established themselves as two of the brightest rising stars in the NBA.

In 1998, a year after signing Kevin Garnett to an unprecedented 6-year, $ 126 million contract.

Led by Kevin Garnett, who averaged 22. 9 points per game and 11. 8 rebounds per game, the Timberwolves had their first 50-win season and finished in 3rd place with a record of 50 – 32.

Kevin Garnett leapt upon the scorer's table upon the completion of Game 7 in the Sacramento series, one of the more defining moments in franchise playoff history.

Kevin Garnett finally earned his first MVP award with 24. 2 points, 13. 9 rebounds and 5. 0 assists per game.

On July 31, 2007, the Minnesota Timberwolves reached a deal to trade All-Star Kevin Garnett to the Boston Celtics for Al Jefferson, Theo Ratliff, Gerald Green, Sebastian Telfair, Ryan Gomes, two first-round draft picks, and cash considerations.

On October 10, The Wolves lost to Kevin Garnett and the revamped Boston Celtics 92 – 81.

The youngest team in the NBA began adjusting to life after trading franchise star Kevin Garnett to Boston, meanwhile playing without budding talent Randy Foye for the first half of the season.

The season was marked by major trades and acquisitions by many teams, most notably Kevin Garnett and Ray Allen being acquired by the Boston Celtics, Pau Gasol going to the Los Angeles Lakers, and Shaquille O ' Neal going to the Phoenix Suns.

The following day, they also re-signed Tim Duncan for three more years, the same money offered to Kevin Garnett to stay with the Boston Celtics, Boris Diaw for two years per $ 9 million, and Patrick Mills giving the Spurs a new hope towards their championship aspiration.

The series is best known for starring kid-sized versions of popular professional sports stars, such as Albert Pujols, Paul Pierce, Barry Bonds, Tim Duncan, Clint Mathis, Kevin Garnett, Tom Brady, Alex Rodriguez, Joe Thornton and Andy Macdonald.

In 2001, a new game, Backyard Basketball, was released, and it featured Kevin Garnett and Lisa Leslie.

* Kevin Garnett, NBA player

The Adidas commercial is a popular hit on YouTube and features a house party with famous celebrities such as David Beckham, Russel Simmons, Kevin Garnett, Missy Elliott, Katy Perry, and Mark Gonzales.

*** The Minnesota Timberwolves have not retired the number, but have not issued it since Kevin Garnett was traded from the team in 2007.

Kevin K. Carroll suggests a site close to High Cross in Leicestershire, on the junction of Watling Street and the Fosse Way, which would have allowed the Legio II Augusta, based at Exeter, to rendezvous with the rest of Suetonius's forces, had they not failed to do so.

The success of the Attlee Government's welfare legislation in reducing poverty was such that, in the general election of 1950, according to Kevin Jefferys, " Labour propaganda could make much of the claim that social security had eradicated the most abject destitution of the 1930s ".

On Christmas Day 2009, Sally Webster told husband Kevin that she had breast cancer, just as he was about to leave her for lover Molly.

Molly Dobbs became pregnant, with the father being either Tyrone Dobbs or Kevin Webster ; Molly reconciled with Tyrone and nearly lost her life after a crash in a car which had not been properly repaired by Kevin.

The Marlins had their ups as Luis Castillo had a team record 35 game hitting streak and Kevin Millar had 25 game hit streak.

He had a memorable part as a Secretary of Defense trying to cover up a homicide in 1987's No Way Out opposite Kevin Costner.

He had previously granted full access to documentary filmmaker and television producer Kevin Burns for the A & E Biography special Hugh Hefner: American Playboy in 1996.

The court ruled six defendants — including Kazaa's owners Sharman Networks, Sharman's Sydney-based boss Nikki Hemming and associate Kevin Bermeister — had knowingly allowed Kazaa users illegally to swap copyrighted songs.

Late in 2005, Army Lt. Col. Kevin Shaffer and Congressman Curt Weldon alleged that the Defense Department data mining project Able Danger had kept Nawaf, Khalid al-Mihdhar, Mohamed Atta and Marwan al-Shehhi all under surveillance as Al-Qaeda agents.

Kevin Costner had been cast as Ace Woody, a " vile and sadistic trainer of slaves who are forced to fight in death matches for a plantation owner ( DiCaprio )" before he later dropped out due to scheduling conflicts, and was replaced by Kurt Russell who later also dropped out.

DGMH had about five to eight participants, and Finn Trosby mentions as major contributors Kevin Holley, Eija Altonen, Didier Luizard and Alan Cox.

In 1998, Henderson and Valenzuela were gone, but newly acquired ( from the 1997 World Series champion Florida Marlins ) pitcher Kevin Brown had a sensational year ( his only one with the Padres ) and outfielder / slugger Greg Vaughn bounced back after a poor 1997 season and hit 50 home runs ( overlooked in that season of the Mark McGwire-Sammy Sosa race ).

Their pitching staff had the perennial big-3 of Greg Maddux ( 18 – 9, 2. 22 ERA ), Tom Glavine ( 20 – 6, 2. 47 ERA ), and John Smoltz ( 17 – 3, 2. 90 ERA ), as well as Kevin Millwood ( 17 – 8, 4. 08 ERA ) and Denny Neagle ( 16 – 11, 3. 55 ERA ).

The team did not have any outstanding deep threats, but wide receivers Yancey Thigpen recorded 38 receptions for 648 yards, Kevin Dyson had 54 receptions for 658 yards, and tight end Frank Wycheck gained 69 receptions for 641 yards.

Completing a wacky 57-yard kickoff return that includes 5 laterals, Kevin Moen runs through Stanford band members who had prematurely come onto the field.

She married Roy soon after arriving in Chicago and had three children, one named Kevin and the other named Ramon Price ( from a later marriage ), former artist and chief curator of The DuSable Museum of African American History.

In a January 1994 Premiere magazine interview about the film The River Wild, Kevin Bacon commented that he had worked with everybody in Hollywood or someone who's worked with them.

Appropriately, the comedy drama had a sellout run at the 2005 Edinburgh Festival Fringe before transferring to London's West End at The Venue, in 2006, in a version starring Kevin Bishop as Moore, Tom Goodman-Hill as Cook, Fergus Craig as Alan Bennett and Colin Hoult as Jonathan Miller.

Ebert had pre-taped enough TV programs with his co-host Richard Roeper to keep him on the air for a few weeks ; his extended convalescence necessitated a series of " guest critics " to co-host with Roeper: Jay Leno, Kevin Smith, John Ridley, Toni Senecal, Christy Lemire, Michael Phillips, Aisha Tyler, Fred Willard, Anne Thompson, A. O.

In any case, the show did not completely sever ties to its past, as many former cast members reappeared during the 1989 season in cameo roles, most notably in the " Age " episode, which was hosted by Vanessa Lindores and also featured cameos by Doug Ptolemy, Alasdair Gillis, Christine McGlade, and Kevin Kubusheskie ( who by that time had become a stage producer on the show ).

In 2008 Smiffy gained a pet pebble called Kevin, this character even had his own feature in the Beano issue 3604 entitled Where's Kevin.