Report: KG was to star in college reality show if he retired in 2013
Paul Pierce went on the record earlier this fall, saying Kevin Garnett was ready to retire as a member of the Boston Celtics in 2013. Pierce, the story goes, had to sell him hard on the blockbuster trade that sent the pair to Brooklyn Nets.
What wasn't apparently known was Garnett was in preliminary talks with Showtime about shooting a reality show where the then-37-year-old would go to college for the first time.
"Live in the dorm and let Showtime shoot it," The Vertical's Chris Mannix said in a Tuesday podcast. "He said he wanted to do the whole thing. He said he wanted the whole nine."
As the original member of the contemporary prep-to-pro generation, Garnett skipped college and went straight from high school to the NBA in 1995. Yet the idea of the notoriously ornery "Big Ticket" playing beer pong and participating in other campus shenanigans in his late thirties is downright hysterical, and on another level, could have possibly spared the Nets setting their franchise back a decade.
Of course, Garnett is now retired and dabbling in media work. This could still happen if there's one enterprising TV executive out there.
- With h/t to EOB