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Where Does Kevin Garnett Live

Kevin Garnett is standing in his office, tucked into the back of a spacious home west of downtown Minneapolis. On a shelf behind him stands a photo taken with Barack Obama, the 2003 All-Star MVP trophy—a game in which he had 37 points, nine rebounds, and five steals—and other cherished keepsakes from his unparalleled 21-year NBA career.

But Garnett’s focus isn’t on any of that. He’s staring at the back wall, almost in a trance, his eyes boring a hole into a huge painting of the Larry O’Brien Trophy. In statue form, professional basketball’s ultimate prize stands about two feet tall and is covered in 24 karat gold. Garnett’s rendering is nearly twice as large, two-dimensional, and sketched in black and white inside a silver frame.

For years, it was suspended over Garnett’s bed. “I used to wake up to this every day,” he says. “Wake up, look at it, believe it. Wake up, see it, believe it. Wake up, ingest it, believe it. Every day. So much that when I went to Boston, I’d go to sleep thinking the same thing. Then it happened.” Even five years after retirement, months before his May 2021 induction into the Hall of Fame, the artwork still grips him.

Garnett shakes his head. His gaze drops to the floor as he turns back toward the rest of the room. I’m standing in its doorway, behind a small camera crew that’s in the middle of shooting Garnett’s documentary, Anything Is Possible, which debuts November 12 on Showtime. The air in the room suddenly shifts. Garnett narrows his eyes, grips the back of his office chair, and lets his voice drop an entire octave.

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“I see everybody with their shoes on,” he says. Garnett is not only one of the most important and talented basketball stars who’s ever lived, but also the most maniacally intense (he once got so worked up watching P. Diddy’s Making the Band that he headbutted a hole in his own living room wall). During over 55,000 minutes of NBA action, along with countless more in practice and on his own time, he embodied a violent squall.

“Leave your shoes at the front,” Garnett orders. “Y’all notice I got white floors, y’all notice I got white carpets.” My heart starts racing and I avoid eye contact, unsure what this offense might lead to. But Garnett exhales and claps his hands, and his entire body relaxes. As I speed-walk to the front door and kick off my Jordans, he smiles and asks one of the crew members how his family is doing.

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