Did Kevin Garnett almost go to the University of Michigan?
To this day, Kevin Garnett stands as one of the most successful athletes to have jumped straight from high school to professional sports. Yet Garnett's jump wasn't always a sure thing. In a fascinating oral history from Bleacher Report's Howard Beck, Sonny Vaccaro reveals that KG nearly went to the University of Michigan.
"He may or may not admit to this, but he was going to go to Michigan. The Fab Five guys, that whole era, Juwan Howard being from Chicago—I would've bet a million dollars that's what he was going to do."
It's fun to imagine what Garnett, who was already so diversely skilled coming out of high school, could have done in what would most likely have been a single year at Michigan. Safe to say that everyone who has ever been associated with the Minnesota Timberwolves or Boston Celtics is very happy that Garnett's stock rose to the point where he chose the NBA over college.
(h/t Bleacher Report)
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