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Retired KG still has itch for playing, beef with T-Wolves

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The playoffs have started, and after a season out of the NBA for the first time in more than two decades, Kevin Garnett’s body is starting to talk to him.

The mileage on his legs and knees may have limited his playing time over his final couple of seasons in the NBA, but now that he has had a year away from the competition and the camaraderie, he is “definitely getting itchy.”

“You get sweaty at night and I’m tossing and turning,” Garnett told The Associated Press in a phone interview. “My wife is like, ‘What the hell is wrong with you?