Having served the Minnesota Timberwolves as their head coach for 11 seasons and team president for two years, Flip Saunders was a big reason for the team's rise to prominence. However, when he passed away in 2015, one of his former players spoke about how disappointed he was with how the Wolves handled it.

Their franchise player before, Kevin Garnett, recently talked to Kelly Dwyer of Yahoo Sports about his feelings on the matter.

“I thought he wasn’t celebrated the proper way. You have high school banners, you have (expletive) hockey banners (hanging in the rafters). You couldn’t put a Flip banner in Target Center, some place that we helped build? … We established that market. I helped grow that with him. You can’t put him in the (rafters)?”

The Big Ticket had a very good relationship with Saunders as he helped him become the player that he turned out to be. Despite returning to the Timberwolves in his last season in the league, the passing of his longtime mentor and the changes he saw within the organization were more than enough reason for KG to decide to hang his sneakers for good after an illustrious career.

Garnett hopes that his strong words will serve as a wake up call to his former team to still find a way to honor one of their most important personnel in the organization's history.