Kevin Garnett Was NOT Ready For Diana Taurasi's Golf Challenge 😂

Indiziert: 2026-05-21

[00:00:01]You can't [music] play hard if you don't work hard. A lot of You know what I'm saying? Got to engage. Feel that good See See that [music] SEE THAT GRIP? OH, I FELT WRONG.

[00:00:10]THAT IS GOING off in a nutshell, huh?

[00:00:12]The highs and lows.

[00:00:14]>> I got a better chance doing that.

[00:00:16]Hey everyone, I'm Diana Taurasi and you're watching The Link where we're going to spark real conversation, be a little competitive, and have a great time on the golf course.

[00:00:24]Look, be careful. Oh, man.

[00:00:26]>> getting these.

[00:00:27]You're not getting the You're not getting dirty. [screaming] Hey.

[00:00:32]Today, we have Kevin Garnett.

[00:00:35]The Big Ticket is going to swing the big stick. Yo, they going to go on Only Fans. I told you.

[00:00:40]They always [laughter] got me on They always got me on some crazy world playing like, "Yo, you know what? I'm going to let it go.

[00:00:48]I'm going to let it go. Hey, get me out of this.

[00:00:50]We're going to [music] play three rounds of golf skill games. The winner of each round gets a point. Whoever has the most points at the end gets the ultimate prize, The Link winners [music] jacket.

[00:01:02]First up, we're playing a full par three hole.

[00:01:05]Winner gets a point.

[00:01:06]>> [music] >> Did you say caddy's not? How you doing, man? How you doing? I'm good. I'm good.

[00:01:09]Let's get out of here. I think it's a par three, Kev. Let's find out. 114. No, I'm hitting the big stick. I'm hitting the driver.

[00:01:15]>> Go ahead. Do what you got to do.

[00:01:19]That's cute. Get out. A lot of a lot of dust on this thing. Damn. You see?

[00:01:26]Oh, that's pretty. Get in there. Get in there. Get in there. Run. Run. Is that water? Did I say water? No, I'm looking at another one in too. Oh, man.

[00:01:36]There he is.

[00:01:36]>> There it is. Get in there, fat.

[00:01:40]Damn, my money. They call me the ticket for a reason.

[00:01:45]Kev, everyone always asks me, WNBA championship or Olympic gold medal? What do you put higher? And I'm like, you kind of can't, right?

[00:01:51]>> It's different It's different energy.

[00:01:53]When you win as a country, I know. It's It's different weight.

[00:01:55]>> Listen, it's a whole 'nother feeling. I knew you were going down that tunnel for opening ceremonies. That's one of my favorite like that's one of my favorite memories of the Olympics. Isn't it?

[00:02:04]You're walking in there and you're walking with people that dedicate their whole life to like running, jumping.

[00:02:09]Four years of training like this or >> for one thing.

[00:02:11]>> one thing. This is the hardest part of golf. Yeah, this is this is technique though. This is where elbow got to be in. This is like that little corner shot between the corner three and the rim.

[00:02:22]Yeah, where you like it's either short either long.

[00:02:24]>> You got to have touch. That's right.

[00:02:25]Yeah. GET UP. GET UP. RUN. RUN. SO, how much NBA do you watch right now? Like are you locked in watch every game?

[00:02:32]>> to. You try to?

[00:02:33]>> You know why? In order to critique it, you know, address kids or be able to teach or at least be able to give do you want to know what you're watching?

[00:02:38]Absolutely. So, yeah. Absolutely.

[00:02:40]>> it. You know what I love is when people who've never played basketball, they see the same thing you see and they see something different and you're just like no, you're you're looking at that completely wrong.

[00:02:49]>> call it out or you just let them know?

[00:02:50]Oh, no. I call it out.

[00:02:51]>> Always. Fans? Fans? Oh, I don't talk to fans. You kidding me? Fans. I love you fans. I love you. Do your thing. It's all love. But this is different. But be fans.

[00:03:02]Soccer, tennis, what can't you do? Golf?

[00:03:04]I'm a really nice wrestler too.

[00:03:05]>> 21 years with the leverage? Lot of you know what I'm saying? Got to engage.

[00:03:08]Feel that good see see that [music] see that grip? See that? Chill out. Chill.

[00:03:11]Chill. Cuz I don't want to have to put you in something my head that I got to explain later.

[00:03:16]You might make this knowing you. You're one of the most luckiest people I've ever seen in my life. Hey, it's better to be lucky than good. I know that for a fact.

[00:03:24]>> it again.

[00:03:25]It's better to be lucky than good.

[00:03:26]>> KEEP RUNNING.

[00:03:28]OH.

[00:03:31]HEY, THAT WAS A FUN CATCH, MAN.

[00:03:33]I'M SORRY, MY HOMIE. HEY, my guy, you good?

[00:03:37]Hey, listen. I know he hurt. I know he over I know he over there with the I know I like that was in the hole.

[00:03:43]There we go. Get in there. Left or right? When you're young and you're naive, that's when like the best of you comes out. You're just playing out of like true love of the game.

[00:03:50]>> That's one thing I love about man. you've always played through the road. Always. Listen. [music] Without going into context, we both party hard. Always. But we both got up next day and got it. Always. Feel me? So I've always respected that.

[00:04:03]>> Always. You can't play hard if you don't work hard. That's That's so true.

[00:04:08]Man, tell me about it. Knock this in.

[00:04:10]Don't overthink it. I'm not. I'm going to aim for your actually your left heel.

[00:04:16]Let's see. Get in. Let's see. Get money, Kev. For the people.

[00:04:20]That felt good.

[00:04:22]That felt good. Kev, you need to get it for the people.

[00:04:25]Listen, I'm glad y'all taping this cuz this might be my best day ever.

[00:04:31]I'll get money. Yes, YES.

[00:04:33]YES, YES.

[00:04:35]>> [screaming] >> LET ME GET OUT OF YOUR WAY, KEV. HEY, GET OFF. YEAH, THAT'S NOT A DOUBLE BOGEY. That's That's not bad. Come on.

[00:04:40]Let me see. He's getting cocky. Let me see.

[00:04:45]Oh. Ooh, short change.

[00:04:50]You got to make this to win. That's golf in a nutshell right there.

[00:04:59]The highs and lows. The highs and lows.

[00:05:05]The chipping challenge. Merging basketball and golf together. Can you finesse it in the hoop? Winner gets a point. [music] And you can chip or putt.

[00:05:13]We found putt. You can hit the front and you can get it in the hole. I got a better chance doing this.

[00:05:18]This is new age golf. Let's go.

[00:05:21]Yeah, I'm going to I'm going to try.

[00:05:23]Cameraman, I'm going to knock your out.

[00:05:25]Yeah, move now.

[00:05:27]knocked out.

[00:05:29]For the people.

[00:05:32]>> [laughter] >> Kev, it's good.

[00:05:36]Oh.

[00:05:37]He's golfing somewhere. It's okay.

[00:05:40]Oh.

[00:05:41]Oh my god. He didn't even flinch.

[00:05:45]Give this man a raise. Hey, this man need raise. I have taken all of the outright shots.

[00:05:50]You can't give me a target. That's what I was going to I don't even want to bother caring about this ball.

[00:05:55]This doesn't feel any better. Come on.

[00:05:57]You might knowing you, you're going to make this. I know you.

[00:05:59]>> Damn, I want to hang out with Kevin All net. I feel like I could do anything in the world right now.

[00:06:03]>> need one of them.

[00:06:04]Yeah, oh.

[00:06:06]This might be the hardest game ever.

[00:06:07]>> Listen, listen, listen. Shoot it hard, man. Phil Mickelson can't even do this.

[00:06:11]CAN'T EVEN [laughter] DO IT.

[00:06:14]OH, [screaming] PHIL WON THE COMES UP SHORT.

[00:06:21]>> OH MY GOD. Caddy guy, you saw that, right? God, that felt great.

[00:06:26]Caddy guy, all right, I got a question for you. I always ask this. The best team you played on that didn't win a championship.

[00:06:31]>> Best team I played on that didn't win a championship.

[00:06:35]04, 03-04.

[00:06:38]Sam and Sprewell Minnesota.

[00:06:40]Yeah, that's when the Pistons won. Yeah.

[00:06:41]That might have been the worst 4-1.

[00:06:43]Yeah, that was a good team. Yeah. Let me tell [snorts] you, yeah.

[00:06:47]Cramp, cramp.

[00:06:49]Get money.

[00:06:53]>> [screaming] >> I mean, one of us had to damn make it.

[00:06:57]All right, Kev won the hole.

[00:06:59]I won the chip.

[00:07:00]Putting for the jacket. Let's go. Let's get it.

[00:07:08]Here we are, it's the grand finale. KG and I are tied 1-1. We're going to have a little putt off from 22 feet, the official three-point line of the WNBA.

[00:07:17]The least amount of putts gets a point.

[00:07:19]All right, what we got here, Nick? Right to left, left to right? Let's go, let's go a little left.

[00:07:23]You never want to leave it short, right?

[00:07:25]Uh, so if you're looking at a three-pointer, you're looking at the back of the rim or front of the rim? You got 100% energy, you're not tired, everything's fresh. Do you look at the ball or the or the hoop? I look at the hoop. You look at the hoop.

[00:07:36]>> And if if I if I'm if I'm tired, I look at the back of the rim.

[00:07:39]>> Back of the rim, yeah.

[00:07:40]>> If I'm full on, I look at the front of the rim, knowing that my shot going to be a little strong.

[00:07:43]>> I always look at the at the rim.

[00:07:44]>> Really?

[00:07:44]>> Yeah. You know what I never did? I never looked at my shot when I shot it. Let's get money.

[00:07:51]>> [music] >> He said left to right. You a liar. He said left to right.

[00:07:55]Keep it left. He said left to right.

[00:07:59]Best locker room story. Man, I have a thousand. The one I will share was the night we won.

[00:08:06]Against my Lakers. Yeah. Heart broken.

[00:08:08]Loved it.

[00:08:10]Game six, we closing out. He goes, "You ever heard of Malcolm X or Martin Luther King speech or speech that has so much, remember the JFK speech in Germany? When we remember that speech where he Yeah. Man, Doc started he was like, "And if we don't win this game by 30, we shouldn't walk this game."

[00:08:29]Bow your heads. Man, I had a stream of hair run up and that's all I remember.

[00:08:36]I zoned out into this dark place and I just remember playing with that energy.

[00:08:42]Yeah, those are the best times.

[00:08:43]>> I'm saying? Oh, those are the best times.

[00:08:47]Tim, this is It's right to left.

[00:08:50]It's right to left. I saw that little spin you put on the ball. You was always one of the crafty players. The little things like I just want to say to you, look, I was never the fastest. I was never the quickest. So, I had to find angles and I had to find different ways to get to a spot without beating someone there. So, if it was deception, all the little things like kind of like just playing dominant and getting there before you went there.

[00:09:12]I will say this, I looked at you like Kobe. Mhm. You had the You had the bones to hit hit shots. You had You had the determination. What I loved about, man, you got that killer I mean >> killer killer. You know what I mean? I know what you mean. I do, Stormi. What I respect about you white mama is that you was a beast.

[00:09:30]>> Thanks, Kev. You was a killer. That means a lot. Straight up. I didn't take it for granted. No.

[00:09:34]>> Like every time I go on the court and Loved the way you looked at it. I had to. Loved the way you approached it because you know the jungle. When people watch this playback then they could feel it. You know, and it's always nice being around people that you like everything that you like we're doing this. I feel like this game five right here.

[00:09:48]>> [laughter] >> Money. All right, Kev. You can put the pressure on somebody.

[00:09:55]>> Ain't no pressure. Ain't no pressure.

[00:09:56]This is This is for the W.

[00:09:57]>> No pressure.

[00:09:59]AIN'T NO THING.

[00:10:01]>> [screaming and groaning] >> WHAT I'M JUST SAYING. I'M JUST SAYING.

[00:10:04]I'M JUST GO AHEAD AND TAP IN. Let's end on a make. Go to the whistle.

[00:10:12]My friend.

[00:10:12]>> Kev, you're the best. Thanks for having me. Love you. You already know, man.

[00:10:15]>> [music] >> D, you came out strong. I mean that first hole was great. Look, they some men. But at the end of the day today's winner is Diana. Aw, man. No, that's yourself though. We spoke to the queen. We spoke to queen. You're the man. D, I really appreciate you coming out.

[00:10:30]>> I got you. That's all work right there. That's hard. That's hard. The link, baby.

[00:10:35]>> [laughter] >> We did a Kev. Thanks for coming out.

[00:10:37]>> No doubt, man. Good to see you, man.

[00:10:38]Thanks for joining the link, the one and only Kevin Garnett, the big ticket.

[00:10:45]Did you have a coach? [music] No. You know what I can teach? I can teach an hour and I can make you better. Me, too.

[00:10:51]And it has nothing to do with basketball.

[00:10:52]>> Me, too. I can show up, give you mentality, give you some mindset things I can help you on your way.

[00:10:57]>> Absolutely. Things you can plug into.

[00:10:58]Absolutely.

[00:10:58]>> Coaching [music] is a profession.

[00:10:59]There's a skill to being a coach. What to articulate to a team. You I don't have that.