TOne turn at the top of the NBA wasn’t going to make Kevin Garnett forget all those years on the bottom.

And he can’t believe that people would think otherwise.

So when Garnett heard the theory that he, Paul Pierce and Ray Allen couldn’t possibly be as driven now as they were before finally winning their first NBA title, he wondered if the skeptics had been paying attention all along.

“Hmm, they don’t know us that well then, huh?” Garnett said recently.

With that, Garnett made it clear: Boston’s Big Three, and the rest of their teammates, aren’t ...

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