<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">After bottling up the extent of his frustration for weeks, Kevin Garnett finally said Sunday that he doesn't want to go through more rebuilding and that the Timberwolves organization owes it to him to help him win a championship. Garnett is discouraged because the Wolves have fallen apart during the past two months and, despite winning 98-94 Sunday against the New York Knicks at Target Center, are 29-41, clearly out of the playoff race and on a rebuilding track. A dozen games remain this season. Garnett expects the organization to make moves this summer. "I've always said I'll be in Minnesota as long as they want me here," he said. "I don't think I can take another one of these rebuilding stages. I've always said that I think I'm worth not only being listened to but I think I'm definitely in a position where I (should) have a team and ? a chance to win a ring. So I think, at the end of the day, they should at least give me that. If it's anything different from that, then it's a discussion we have to talk about. "I don't know anybody in this city, in this (locker) room, that likes losing. I don't want to go through another season like this." Speaking to reporters after the game, which included a larger audience with the visiting New York media in town, Garnett stopped short of saying he wants to be traded. Whether owner Glen Taylor and vice president of basketball operations Kevin McHale can make the right moves to appease Garnett remains to be seen. Garnett's salary ? $18 million this season ? takes up plenty of room against the salary cap, which was $49.5 million in 2005-06. Even Garnett acknowledged that he doesn't know if the organization is capable of doing what it takes to avoid another season such as this one. If the Wolves are only one or two players from returning to the playoffs for the first time since 2003-04, when they made the Western Conference finals, it might be easier to assemble a competitive team. But if the January trade with Boston that landed Minnesota four new players, three of whom are now in the starting lineup, isn't the answer long term, the Wolves must do more significant restructuring. Last year, they let go of Sam Cassell, Latrell Sprewell and their former coach, Flip Saunders, key pieces in the run to the Western Conference finals and close allies of Garnett. Garnett said he isn't sure how far the team remains from being competitive. But his sentiments are clear. He is a nine-time NBA all-star and will be 30 years old in May. He has never played in the NBA Finals since being drafted out of high school in 1995. "I don't want to go through this no more," Garnett said. "I think I'm more deserving of a better team and I think the city's more deserving of a better team, coming in here having something that's going to be competitive and having us getting back to the Western Conference finals. But I do know you just can't blink and it's going to happen; you have to actually spend the time and effort. So, we'll see." But his patience is wearing thin. The organization knows that, too. "Everybody understands how I feel," Garnett said. McHale, through a team spokesman, declined comment. Taylor could not be reached for comment. Sunday, Garnett and Wolves felt the pain of their current situation, despite his 26 points and 15 rebounds. They led by 25 points in the second quarter and by 19 entering the fourth and still almost collapsed.</div> Source
