Chris Bosh wanted to pick Kevin Garnett’s brain.
It was the 2010 All-Star Game in Bosh’s hometown of Dallas. The East All-Star locker room was quiet and the superstars were lacing up. Garnett, the 33-year-old All-Star starter and NBA champion with the Boston Celtics, wasn’t in the heat of battle, spitting obscenities at Bosh. For the moment, Garnett and Bosh were anointed allies in the pregame locker room, a most-sacred place in sport.
“At the time, I wasn’t a threat,” Bosh tells me during an hour-long conversation, “so we could talk.”
This was the time and place, Bosh thought.