B/R: Did you reach out at all to Moses Malone or any of the other guys from the previous generation who made the jump from high school to get their advice? Garnett: I couldn’t get Moses Malone on the phone. I couldn’t get Darryl Dawkins or track him down. There wasn’t the internet back then. You couldn’t just DM or reach out. But I did have a long conversation on the phone with Bill Willoughby, who was the last guy to do it before me. He shared some of his experiences with me. A lot of information about the league and the business. How they do guys with injuries. It just kind of took me down an avenue of a reality check on what the real NBA is like. He played eight years, could have played more. He thought that politics came into play a little bit in some situations. Fired his agent, went through a lot of catastrophic episodes that I thought I needed to hear.