Kevin Garnett Lets Austin Rivers Know That He Will Not Be Tolerating His Shoves

Minnesota Timberwolves forward Kevin Garnett won the only championship of his career in 2008 with the Boston Celtics under coach Doc Rivers. On Monday, against Rivers and his son, Austin Rivers, Garnett made it known that he wasn't about to take any flak from the kid who was 15 when the Celtics won their title. 

Update from Tuesday, March 3

Clippers coach Doc Rivers and guard Austin Rivers talked about the Garnett incident after the game, via ESPN.com's Arash Markazi:

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"I thought Austin should have punched him, personally," Doc Rivers said with a smile after the game.

Austin Rivers, however, wasn't smiling and sported a welt on his forehead that he said came as a result of a Garnett elbow earlier in the game.

"He elbowed me in my head, and that's not going to fly, really," Rivers said. "I have all the respect in the world for him. He's one of the best players to ever play the game, but at the end of the day, I'm a man just like he is, and that's all there is to it."

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"I let it go, and then we went and I didn't have the ball, and he just hit me in my stomach and knocked the wind [out of me], and Chris [Paul] threw me the ball, and I wasn't prepared for it because I had just lost my wind, and I threw it back to him," he said. "The play went on and just because I bumped him a little bit, he turned around and did all that stuff."

When asked if he bumped Garnett intentionally, Rivers said, "I was walking to my bench, and he was in my way, and I wasn't moving."

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As both teams went to a timeout, Los Angeles Clippers guard Austin Rivers made the poor decision to give Garnett a little shove. Garnett then started to point and bark at Rivers with some sentences that likely started with, "Listen here, son," followed by expletives. 

Both players received technical fouls on the play. 

[NBA]