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Kevin Garnett as Wilt Chamberlain (Rebound: The Legend of Earl The Goat Manigault, 1996)

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A young Kevin Garnett made his acting debut by playing Wilt Chamberlain in this 1996 HBO movie, "Rebound: The Legend of Earl The Goat Manigault" -- which is a dramatization of the life of streetball legend Earl Manigault.

It's a good movie, so make sure y'all check it out if you haven't seen it. The movie was directed by Eriq La Salle and starred Don Cheadle as Earl Manigault. It was filmed in Harlem and Toronto.

KG's role as Wilt The Stilt was small -- his scenes are essentially all in this sequence -- but did include a couple of lines. He got to have some fun with the part and talk trash a bit after setting a hard pick: "Welcome to the big league, schoolboy" -- which was met by Cheadle's shot rejecting "Welcome to Harlem, motherfucker.")

Notice that KG's would-be future Minnesota Timberwolves teammate Joe Smith played Connie Hawkins. Joe Smith and Kevin Garnett were selected in the same 1995 NBA Draft -- Smith at #1 by Golden State, Garnett at #5 by Minnesota.

Kevin Garnett as Wilt Chamberlain (Rebound: The Legend of Earl The Goat Manigault, 1996)

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