Minnesota Timberwolves: 15 greatest moments of Kevin Garnett’s career

4. Beating the Kings in overtime

While the 2003-04 season still stands as easily the best campaign in Timberwolves franchise history, things started a bit slowly.

During the first week of December, the Wolves were just 10-8 on the year and were facing a tough road test against the Sacramento Kings, who we’ve already learned plenty about thus far on this countdown.

This was a back-and-forth game that saw the Kings grab the contest by the horns in the fourth quarter, taking a six-point lead with only 29.2 seconds remaining on the clock — a virtual certainty that the game was over, right?

Not exactly.

Remember, Garnett was a 27.5 percent career 3-point shooter and shot  just 11-for-43 (25.6 percent) on threes during the 2003-04 season, knocked down a 3-pointer from the top of the key with 26.8 seconds remaining.

Upon the Kings’ inbounding of the basketball, the Wolves fouled Brad Miller. Miller was not only an 80.4 percent free-throw shooter in his career but scored 35 points in this particular game. And oh-by-the-way, Miller had already made his first nine free throw attempts of the game.

But he missed both freebies, and Garnett grabbed the rebound before knocking down the game-tying three on the other end of the court to send the game to an extra session.

The Wolves won in overtime, but the real heroics was the work that KG did to get them there. Ultimately, Garnett finished with 33 points on 13-of-29 shooting, including 3-for-3 from beyond the arc. He also grabbed 25 rebounds, dished out six assists and swatted away three shots.

Oh, and believe it or not, we still aren’t quite done with the Kings…