Kevin Garnett pitched a television show to Showtime in which he would attend college after his retirement from the NBA.

Garnett was the first high school to NBA star of the current era.

"I can tell this story now because it's not going to happen," Mannix told his guest, Zach LaVine, who played with Garnett on the Minnesota Timberwolves. "He was retired. But when it ended in Boston, he thought he was done in Boston. He thought it was going to end there. Paul (Pierce) had to talk him into the trade to Brooklyn.

"He was on a plane to China with the head of Showtime Sports, and he went up to this guy -- Stephen Espinoza's his name. He went up to Stephen and said, 'I've got an idea for a show. How about I go to college?' KG came out of high school, he never went to college. He wanted to go to college, live in the dorm, and let Showtime shoot it."