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Kevin Garnett Biography

Nba Draft, 1995, Bank-breaking Contract, Chronology, "i'm A Battery"CONTACT INFORMATION



1976-

American basketball player

In 1995, Kevin Garnett became famous as one of the first high school basketball players to be drafted directly into the National Basketball Association (NBA). Despite many people's concerns about how a teenager would fare in that setting, Garnett did extremely well in his first few years. In 1997, when at the age of twenty-two he resigned with the Minnesota Timberwolves for $126 million over six years, and became the highest-paid athlete in any team sport.



Kevin Garnett

CONTACT INFORMATION

Address: c/o Minnesota Timberwolves, 600 First Avenue North, Minneapolis, MN 55403.

Sketch by Julia Bauder

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Famous Sports StarsBasketball