I think Darko should feel forced to play Temple 40 minutes today.

“Jarvis pull up my mixtape”

he should show his son all his appearances on “Who he play for?”

dude is basically a superstar of that segment

But by accepting his role as a great teammate, mentor and motivator, Temple — at 39 years and 358 days old — has become the fourth-oldest active player in the league behind James, Grizzlies forward Taj Gibson and Philadelphia 76ers guard Kyle Lowry.

When asked how he learned humility, Temple said, “Honestly, how I was raised, my parents and hard work. But I also say at this age — just with my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, as an actual person that believes in Christ — the No. 1 thing, you have to be humble. And we do affirmations with my kids every day, and one of the things we say is, ‘I’m a servant leader.’

Raptors general manager Bobby Webster says Temple has been a key mentor for their young players.

“He’s invaluable,” Webster said. “Three years ago, when we met him in Vegas, we didn’t have a great personal relationship with him. There is nobody on the team I trust more about the pulse of the team, what I need to watch and what messaging you can help us with, especially in today’s NBA with so many young kids coming in.

“He’s been [mentoring] Scottie [Barnes] for a couple years; we have this young kid Collin Murray-Boyles. He’s a huge mentor and invaluable to us.”

One of my favorite role players ever. Started out as a defender but gradually improved his ball handling and shooting as he aged, while being an A+ teammate. It’s telling that he’s still around at his age despite never being a star player. 

More teams need vets and it’s unfortunate that even with an expanded roster of 18, we don’t have vet presence.

Your 3rd year 24yo player should not be the resident elder statesman showing the rookies how to be a professional.

Ngl I didn’t know bruh was still in the league

‘You save Superman for emergencies”

But really he’s going to be one of the like top 1% of basketball earners globally career wise

Love the attitude and the way he continues to put in the work and help those around him. Every team needs vet guys like this.

“Because he’s washed sweetie”

Because there’s 3.3 million reasons why he practices, he sets an example, and can lead/guide his teammates throughout the season. Just because the old vet doesn’t play doesn’t mean he brings value to the club. Now go enjoy your millionaire family lifestyle kid.

He’s going to make a great player consultant one day

Garrett temple is a hero in this subreddit! “who he played for” is an amazing segment on NBATNT! end o story!

“then why does Lebron play and his younger teammates sit on the bench??”

dont disrespect your og kiddo, that inheritance gonna hit like crack.

I met Garrett Temple when he was playing in Sacramento. I use ‘met’ loosely here.

Girlfriend and I went to the movie theaters. I spotted a tall dude at the concession stand buying popcorn. I was about… 85% sure that it was Garrett Temple, but I didn’t want to be that guy and ask a random tall dude if he was in the NBA, so I checked with Google before I said anything.

After I confirmed it was him, I went over and went to dap him up, but he offered me his hand to shake. I took it and told him it was night to meet him. He pulled me in close and asked “you good?” in a way that made it very clear that I was in fact not good. Before I could respond, he took off and headed towards his theater.

30 minutes into my movie, I realized that I looked like a crazy person looking at my phone, then at him, then back at my phone and then back to him several times in the theater and felt hella embarrassed. I had tickets to the game the next day and considered making a sign that said “Sorry for being a weirdo at the movies” but I think that would’ve only made things worse.

Wholesome

Looks like it’s time for some father/son one on one

Did Garrett Temple ever play a lot?

Started out with the Rockets. Nice 10th or 11th man but if you were playing him meaningful minutes, your team is probably pretty bad. Def a great guy though.

Is this guy in the nba? Or is this some euro league ? Who gives a hoot