Bob Ford: Once again, Garnett makes the difference

0 Comments | Philadelphia Inquirer, The, March, 2008 | by Bob Ford Inquirer Columnist

Jim Lynam leaned back in the courtside chair in that slow hour before the game, when the players take jumpers and work on loosening up for another night of this peculiar battle they do. "That guy," Lynam said, speaking of Boston's Kevin Garnett, "it's easy to say you like him because his talent is that obvious.

But he's got something else, something special about how he comes at you. Something almost Birdlike." He said the last part quieter, as if it should be more solemn than the rest. It is not something the Sixers assistant coach says lightly, or often. "No," Lynam agreed. "It is not." And then they played the game. The Sixers came out with their four-game winning streak, and their improving roster, and their feisty personality, and their apparent joy at playing much...