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The recently inked six-year contract extension that will keep former Farragut Academy star Kevin Garnett playing basketball for the NBA’s Minnesota Timberwolves was variously pegged at anywhere from $120 million to $125 million. (What’s a few million in that dizzying territory?)
The Tribune put the number at $123 million and the figure seemed very familiar.
It didn’t take long to discover why. That was the value of the gold that was looted from the Belgian treasury by the Nazis and knowingly, shamefully accepted by Swiss banks in 1943.
Don’t mean to rain on Garnett’s payroll parade, but in a world where numbers–especially those in sports contracts–are becoming increasingly meaningless, some numbers are worth remembering.
