Look, my rando ass has never really bought into the KG tough guy act. Ever. But one thing I’d never dog him for is his drive to compete and win. You can tell he almost takes it personal that a player who was on the rise, played FANTASTICALLY and played big minutes on a championship team, got paid to set his family up for generations, then just gets complacent and practically gives up trying, like he doesn’t have to prove anything ever again. A competitor doesn’t get complacent. You don’t get satisfied. You win a ring, awesome. But five minutes later you realize that was last year. Next year is all new, you have to go out and do it all over again—you gotta earn it all over again. You come out the next season and embarrass yourself, guess what? You just embarrassed yourself. Sure, you won last year, two years ago, and so on, but that was then, and this is now. It’s never gonna be given to you, and you can lose everything at any moment. You can tell KG simply does not respect that casual complacency.
Look, my rando ass has never really bought into the KG tough guy act. Ever. But one thing I’d never dog him for is his drive to compete and win. You can tell he almost takes it personal that a player who was on the rise, played FANTASTICALLY and played big minutes on a championship team, got paid to set his family up for generations, then just gets complacent and practically gives up trying, like he doesn’t have to prove anything ever again. A competitor doesn’t get complacent. You don’t get satisfied. You win a ring, awesome. But five minutes later you realize that was last year. Next year is all new, you have to go out and do it all over again—you gotta earn it all over again. You come out the next season and embarrass yourself, guess what? You just embarrassed yourself. Sure, you won last year, two years ago, and so on, but that was then, and this is now. It’s never gonna be given to you, and you can lose everything at any moment. You can tell KG simply does not respect that casual complacency.