Kobe Bryant is retired. Tim Duncan walked away as well. That already would have been enough for the NBA to feel like they were saying goodbye to a generation this summer, and now Kevin Garnett has also decided to accept a buyout from the Minnesota Timberwolves to end his 21-year career.
Those three players will make for one of the best Hall of Fame classes in league history in five years because all of them made an incredible impact on the game of basketball.
Tim Duncan’s two decades of casual dominance change the way we think about a player’s longevity, and Bryant’s peak featured some of the most incredible scoring the NBA has ever seen.