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(ViacomCBS) – SHOWTIME unveils a marque caller documentary looking into the beingness and vocation of Kevin Garnett contiguous astatine 8PM ET/PT. Kevin Garnett: Anything Is Possible was produced and directed by the father-son duo of Marc and Daniel Levin. In summation to interviews with Garnett himself, the documentary besides features commentary from the likes of erstwhile teammate Sam Cassell, rival Pau Gasol and adjacent Snoop Dogg.
CBS‘ Matt Weiss spoke to Marc and Daniel Levin astir the documentary and what they’ve learned astir “The Big Ticket.”
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MW- Marc, Daniel, bully to spot you both! Kevin Garnett: Anything Is Possible comes to SHOWTIME connected November 12th astatine 8pm. You some person a batch of acquisition with pro athletes, what was it astir KG that made you privation to marque him the absorption of your adjacent documentary?
ML- Well, to commencement and past I’ll crook it implicit to Dan, I met KG astatine a Super Bowl party. We ended up getting successful rather a fascinating speech astir immoderate of the thoroughfare gangs country successful Chicago. He knew I wanted to movie a fig of films that dealt with that world. He was fascinated by the Gangster Disciples and Lary Hoover who founded the Gangster Disciples and I was conscionable amazed by his scope of interests.
You know, we hardly got to basketball. He was funny successful specified a wide assortment of subjects and past of people erstwhile I saw Uncut Gems I realized his show ability. He is evidently an unthinkable jock but he’s an astonishing performer, storyteller, critic. We discussed his Content Cartel helium was starting truthful it seemed similar a earthy acceptable to footwear disconnected that caller endeavor with an astonishing documentary astir his life.
DL- We’re some hoops fans and I would accidental 90’s hoops shaped my outlook on. KG was specified a pivotal relation successful each that but I deliberation what truly fascinated maine astir him was his disrupter quality wrong the NBA. He had these, what we call, 4 pillars of however helium changed the NBA. The archetypal and astir apt the astir good known was helium was the archetypal to travel consecutive from precocious schoolhouse for 20 years. Second of course, was his $126 cardinal declaration that benignant of changed the concern of sports.
Then of people however helium changed the presumption of the powerfulness guardant and however helium evolved it from the accepted backmost to the handbasket subordinate to spreading retired the floor, being capable to shot handle. The 4th was his determination to Boston which jumpstarted the modern epoch of the ace team. The Boston “Big Three” truly kicked disconnected the ace squad era, which we’re inactive in.
All of those things fascinated america and funny astir him. As Marc said, his storytelling quality is unbelievable, you’re conscionable captivated by him. So really, combining those 2 elements was the the archetypal model of the documentary.
MW- What did you larn astir that determination to spell consecutive to the pros and each the fallout that came on with that decision?
ML- Yeah, good evidently his elder twelvemonth of precocious schoolhouse erstwhile helium gets to Chicago is specified a pivotal year. You know, helium was a kid from South Carolina and helium gets into a benignant of altercation that makes him permission his hometown and helium yet ultimately ended up astatine Farragut successful Chicago. So each the ingredients of that twelvemonth culminate successful this astonishing story. He was a state kid from South Carolina thrown successful the mediate of Chicago and that determination to spell pro was not a thought retired crippled program but was benignant of a spontaneous phenomena of twisted fate.
He was playing successful this astonishing pickup crippled and he’s fixed immoderate sage contented from Isaiah Thomas, which benignant of turned the airy on. He told KG helium could play successful the NBA and that benignant of sparked thing successful him. The fallout initially I deliberation radical were precise skeptical of him and skeptical of his abilities to travel consecutive into the NBA.
But past the adjacent twelvemonth successful ’96 You person Kobe drafted and the cascade of players conscionable started coming close from High School, helium truly opened the floodgate. As helium primitively liked to telephone it, helium was the rip successful the matrix that became a elephantine tear.
MW- And you guys were capable to get a fig of his peers involved, guys similar Sam Cassell, Pau Gasol to sanction a few. How invaluable was their insight?
DL- We were blessed to get specified a wide formed of characters. It’s astonishing talking to each these radical astir KG. The admiration and the respect Sam Cassell has for KG was a astonishment to me, I didn’t recognize however adjacent of a narration they had.
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Then you person Paul Pierce, you person Rondo you person Doc Rivers. It was conscionable an astonishing formed of characters and past we person KG arsenic the halfway voice. He’s a 1 antheral amusement conscionable telling his beingness connected a signifier it’s unbelievable.
MW- So you mentioned 1 of those large pillars successful KG’s vocation is that Celtics squad helium helped created. When you deliberation astir that portion and what the lasting content for you?
ML- Well arsenic a New Yorker I was of people rooting against him during regular season. I was amazed however aggravated of a rival Kevin was. There was thing astir him, adjacent arsenic a non-Celtic instrumentality that moved maine and truthful erstwhile they yet won, I retrieve reasoning wow, what a story.
He did yet travel to New York with the Nets but helium and Paul Pierce were benignant of astatine the extremity of their careers and truthful determination were decidedly mixed feelings I think.
DL- One of the fascinating things that we uncovered astir that squad and astir Kevin and Paul’s narration is that it goes mode backmost to erstwhile they were teenagers. Paul Pierce ever tells a communicative that helium tried to get him to travel to Englewood and get him to travel decorativeness this precocious schoolhouse vocation successful California.
So I deliberation those 2 were ever friends, which was amazing, I ne'er knew that. The information that they got to squad up Boston was amazing. Kevin truly took this communicative into his ain caput erstwhile helium saw that helium had a accidental to triumph a title by combining the forces of each these all-star caliber players that astatine each had ne'er won championships but that they could together.
MW- One of the astir fascinating things, I think, astir Garnett’s vocation was his instrumentality to Minnesota. A batch of athletes motion 1 time contracts to discontinue wherever they started but it felt antithetic with Garnett. He was drafted to Minnesota astatine 19-year-old kid, has this odyssey of a vocation and past goes backmost arsenic a 38-year-old man. What did you larn astir that 2nd stint successful Minnesota and however overmuch that meant to him?
DL- Yeah, I deliberation that’s portion 2 of this movie. I deliberation Kevin ever had a emotion for Minnesota, helium ever had a emotion for the city. It’s the spot that gave him a accidental and of people helium had a batch of admiration for his manager Flip Saunders. I deliberation erstwhile helium was connected his mode backmost astatine the extremity of his vocation helium thought helium would go a bigger portion of the squad erstwhile helium retired on with Flip.
I deliberation that’s thing that helium was ever looking guardant to and past of people tragically Flip passes distant and things benignant of deteriorated. But yea erstwhile helium returned helium was the seasoned looking retired for the younger stars similar Sam Cassell did for him erstwhile helium was young. He was coming backmost arsenic a mentor and and a seasoned and I deliberation it’s a cleanable afloat ellipse for his career. I deliberation it truly meant a batch to him.
MW- Well convey you some truthful overmuch for the clip and I’m surely looking guardant to checking retired the documentary erstwhile it drops this Friday connected SHOWTIME. Thank you both!
ML- Thank you!
DL- Thanks, Matt.
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Kevin Garnett: Anything Is Possible comes to SHOWTIME connected Friday, November 12th astatine 8PM ET/PT. Check your section listings for much information.
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