Garnett: Prince an inspiration and ‘super cool’

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Longtime Minnesota Timberwolves face of the franchise Kevin Garnett ‎has paid tribute to Prince in the wake of the pop star’s passing, ‎remembering his friend and the diehard Wolves fan as an inspiration and “super cool.”

‎”My favorite Prince story was just in a nightclub, him sending for me and then telling me how much he knew about me and the game of basketball,” Garnett told ESPN.com on Friday.

“He was super confident, but humble in how he spoke to you. He was always very inviting and the one takeaway you got from every time you talked to him was how he was just so super cool.”

Prince, whose death Thursday at 57 was felt particularly hard among his many fans within the NBA community, was a Minnesota native and a staunch supporter of both the Wolves and the WNBA’s Minnesota Lynx over the years.

On his Instagram page Friday, Garnett posted a tribute to Prince:

Lost for words… Truly was an honor to know and will be sadly missed. RESPECT/LOVED.. Forever in our Hearts….

A photo posted by Kevin Garnett (@tic_pix) on Apr 22, 2016 at 10:58am PDT

On Friday, Carver County Sheriff Jim Olson said Prince’s body had no signs of violence when he was found unresponsive Thursday morning in an elevator at Paisley Park, his estate in suburban Minneapolis, and there was nothing to suggest it was suicide. …

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