Houston Rockets superstar Kevin Durant has won two NBA championships and an MVP award during his career, and he sparked quite a debate in the offseason. Durant claimed the MVP award is more precious than a championship ring, but Hall of Famer Kevin Garnett doesn’t share that opinion.

Garnett has won a title and an MVP award, and he was asked on the Out The Mud Podcast which one means more to him.

“So your patches and your stripes make you up, who you are,” Garnett said. “It’s what they’re going to remember you by. When you get them awards and them All-Stars, those are what you’ve earned. When you get that Larry O’Brien, you and the guys, y’all came together for one goal and got this. Not no one person did any of this. Coaches went into this. Equipment man, everybody went into the Larry O’Brien.

“When you get them individual awards, bro, those are your badges,” Garnett continued. “Those are no different from the scar you got on your face, from your finger being f***ed up, your knee, wars marks that’s on your arm. If I’mma pick one, I’mma pick one with the guys. ‘Cause you can do s*** on your own. Man, do something special with the guys, man, that’s only gonna happen very rare.

“Yeah, give me the championship all day,” Garnett added. “They gonna know me anyway for these stripes and these battle wounds. But yeah, what we did with the guys? Yeah, that’s between us and the guys. That can never be emulated.”

That’s a brilliant answer, which also shows what kind of character Garnett was during his career. The 50-year-old was all about the team and always had his teammates’ backs. He was the definition of “ride or die.”

Garnett was named MVP in the 2003-04 season, when he averaged 24.2 points, 13.9 rebounds, 5.0 assists, 1.5 steals, and 2.2 blocks per game for the Minnesota Timberwolves. He also led the Timberwolves to an excellent 58-24 record and ran away with the award.

With Garnett on a roll, the Timberwolves got to the Western Conference Finals for the first time in franchise history in 2004. Unfortunately for him, they’d lose to the Shaquille O’Neal and Kobe Bryant-led Los Angeles Lakers in six games.

That concluded Garnett’s ninth season in the NBA after the Timberwolves had selected him with the No. 5 pick in the 1995 NBA Draft. A championship continued to elude him, and he’d ultimately have to move to win one.

The Timberwolves traded Garnett to the Boston Celtics in 2007, and success came immediately. The Celtics went 66-16 in 2007-08 with him, Paul Pierce, and Ray Allen leading the way.

Garnett didn’t win MVP in 2008, but he did come away with the DPOY award. He then helped the Celtics get to the 2008 NBA Finals, where the Lakers stood in his way again.

Garnett would emerge victorious this time, though, as the Celtics won in six games. He famously declared, “Anything is possible!” after finally becoming an NBA champion. It is one of the most iconic moments in modern NBA history.

The Celtics and the Lakers met in the Finals again in 2010, but the outcome was different in the rematch. The Lakers won in seven games, denying Garnett his second championship. He would never play on that stage again, but he walked away from the game with his head held high in 2016.