<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'><span id="default"> LONDON - Kevin Garnett will face his past before he gets on with his future.</p> The 2004 NBA most valuable player and 10-time all-star, who left the Timberwolves to join the Boston Celtics in a huge offseason trade, will face his former team for the first time Wednesday in an NBA exhibition game at the O2 Arena in London.</p> "I haven't really thought a lot about the past," Garnett said Monday. "I'm enjoying this journey. ... That's the focus now."</p> Garnett came to the Celtics in a seven-for-one deal, the NBA's biggest trade for a single player. Ray Allen, another former all-star, joined Boston in a separate deal, raising hopes that the team can add to its record 16 NBA titles.</p> All that is good news for Paul Pierce, the five-time all-star who has been Boston's star player in recent years.</p> "I don't have to score as much this year," said Pierce, who led the Celtics with 25 points a game last season. "I don't have to handle all the pressure every night."</p> Garnett spent 12 years playing for the Wolves, whom he led to the Western Conference finals in 2004. But he'll face a team Wednesday that has very few familiar faces.</p> "A lot of players are gone now," Garnett said. "It makes it a little more easy just knowing that a lot of people I did grow with are not there."</p> The Wolves are starting over with a young core, coach Randy Wittman said.</p> "We're not going to be able to plug one guy in to cover all the things he was able to do," Wittman said of Garnett. <span id="default">"We're not asking anyone to come in and be K.G." Wittman said he talked with Garnett on Monday after the Wolves finished practice, just before the Celtics took the court.</p> "He's in good spirits," Wittman said. "Things are going well for him there. It was definitely good to see him and talk to him. It wasn't strange. It might be a little strange playing against him. Seeing him this afternoon was wonderful."</div></p> Source: TwinCities</p> </span></p> </span></p>
