KG's career has been cut short by injuries.
Without injuries probably, maybe, perhaps KG.
With injuries Dirk.
KG hasn't aged as well and didn't ever have the offensive repertoire that he could have. That knee injury took away his 2nd and 3rd rings and left him hobbled and 1/2 the player he was before.
Cut short by injuries? Hasn't aged well? What? 
He's in his 20th season, was an All-Star in his 18th season, and All-NBA Defense in his 17th season, and will probably finish this season 3rd all time in minutes and 5th or 6th all time in games played.
KG has actually aged pretty well and his career was not cut short by injuries. In fact he's had one of the longest careers of anybody ever.
(Not that Dirk also hasn't had a nice long career, but let's see how he's performing in his 19th and 20th seasons).
It's probably safe to say that KG's tenure with the Celtics was certainly undercut by injuries.
Everyone's career ends from and is affected by injuries, usually way before KG's age. KG has had a remarkably healthy career.
His '08-09 injury probably cost the Celtics a very legit chance at a 3 Peat. With a healthy KG, that '09 team is cruising to the Finals and with a health KG instead of a limping KG, he's not getting manhandled by Gasol in the '10 Finals.
Has everyone forgotten just how dominant the Cavs were that year? I don't think that we could have beaten them without homecourt, and even then, it would have been a toss-up at best. They embarrassed us twice in Cleveland, once without KG, but to suggest that it would have been a walk in the park for us to get to the finals is quite ridiculous, imo. The Cavs wanted us, we no longer had Posey, and Leon went down (which may or may not have happened depending on if Garnett didn't get hurt). Even if Rondo played the way he did when KG was hurt in the playoffs with a healthy Garnett (sorry, I know that I've written this rather poorly), I don't think that we would have gotten out of the east, and even if we'd had, the Lakers would've beaten us, because, again, WE HAD NO DEPTH. Thanks Danny (sarcasm)!
I didn't forget squat. That Celtics team was cruising until KG went down that night in Utah. They were something like 44-11. Have you forgotten how dominant that Celtics team was up until that point? Sure, CLE ended up with the better record but by only 4 games and that's with roughly 2 months of basketball after KG went down.
Sure, they weren't as deep as the '08 team but, with a healthy KG, they were doing just fine. Come playoff time, with extended minutes and shorter rotations, they would've been well off, IMO. Hell, they still came within a win of the conference finals w/o KG/Powe and they're not going 7 the series before with Chicago if KG is out there. A conference finals with KG/Powe against CLE? I'm still liking their chances home court or not.
That injury crippled their title hopes but they were a very solid contender for repeating before KG went down. Now the Powe thing? Who knows whether or not that happens in a healthy KG scenario.
Now if you wanna battle word usage or semantics about "cruise"' have fun with that but it's something I'm going to waste my time with.
No, I remember how hungry they were to repeat. Didn't they start the season at 20-1, 20-2 or something? Still, we were often having to dig down real deep to win a large portion of those games because everyone was gunning for us, and having no depth made things even worse. Yes, they were on a definite roll - until they lost to the Lakers on Christmas, when Bynum showed how impactnfluential he could be against us, and the absence of Posey, again, was very evident - especially against Kobe, defensively. After we lost that game we seemed to go into a bit of a downward spiral, iirc, and then KG got hurt, and then he tried to come back against LA (again, iirc), and we lost to them in overtime and Garnett fouled out on a typical flop by Fisher when he tripped himself over KG's leg. I think we had a chance to tie and Ray probably got fouled, but, shockingly (sarcasm), there was no call.
Even when we were injury-free, the Cavs smacked us in Cleveland, and Lebron made Pierce look very old. I think he outscored our captain 38 to 13-15, and was completely unstoppable. There was a lot of concern among fans on here. They were deeper with Mo Williams, we had lost Posey hadn't signed the Birdman (again, thanks Danny (sarcasm)!), and Tony Allen was our primary backup for Allen and Pierce, which sucked because TA can't shoot. This is what happens when you try to do things on the cheap, and once we lost Posey, I honestly didn't think that we were going to be able to win another title, at least, not that year.
I should also like to point out that, had they not rested on the final day of the regular season, that Cavs team would have matched the 86 Celtics home court of 40-1, but lost to the 76ers. The only team to win at the Q that year - the Lakers, on the same trip where they beat us. That's when I knew that they were going to win it all. No one could win in Cleveland - not with all of the ridiculous calls, let alone the team. The Cavs were built to beat us - not Orlando, which is why they lost. It was just a bad matchup for them, and the Magic's 3 point shooting and their forcing of Lebron to do everything while simultaneously shutting down his teammates proved to be too much for them. Again, this is all from memory, so feel free to show me clips or whatever to disprove my assertions here, but I just think that we should give that Cavs team their due.
Also, we're wildly off topic lol
. In looking at Dirk's stats, I never knew that he actually rebounded, haha. I'll add one more point for KG over Dirk - Garnett is such a complete basketball player that when Sam Cassell went down in the 2004 playoffs, KG played POINT GUARD against the Lakers, and performed very well. Dirk can barely dribble, let alone hit step-back jumpers over Shaq or Bosh like Garnett has in his career.
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