text: Kevin McHale | American basketball player and executive | Britannica.com
  ...excitement generated by the supremacy battle between the Lakers led by Magic Johnson and a Celtics team led by Bird (who had a rivalry with Johnson dating back to their college days), Robert Parish, Kevin McHale, and Dennis Johnson that advanced to the NBA finals five times in the 1980s and won championships in 1980–81, 1983–84, and 1985–86.
  ...in their initial years in the league, winning no more than 29 games in any of their first seven seasons. In 1995 the Timberwolves' vice president of basketball operations, former Boston Celtic star Kevin McHale, a Minnesota native, drafted teenage forward Kevin Garnett straight out of high school. Garnett soon led the team to the first play-off berth (1996–97) and winning season...