KG: Playoff seeding 'always matters'

Our friends at ESPNChicago.com caught up with Kevin Garnett at a promotional event in Chicago on Wednesday night, and the Celtics' emotional leader wasn't downplaying the importance of the No. 1 seed in the East on the eve of the showdown between the C's and Bulls, the conference's top two teams.

It always matters," Garnett said of playoff seeding. "As much as people say it [doesn't], it always matters. If it didn't matter, then it wouldn't be a one, two, three, four or five. It wouldn't be a sequence. But to be honest with you, everybody wants to be number one. Wherever we're at is going to be wherever we're at. Whether we're at one or two [seed], we're still going to have to play and still going to have to deal with some type of adversity or something."

Garnett admitted that he is looking forward to the possibility of facing the Bulls in the Eastern Conference playoffs.

"I look forward to [it] not only because they're the young up and coming team, but they're trying to establish something here," he said. "We're trying to establish something. The competition is what fuels me at the end of the day, so it's cool."