{"id":1117602,"date":"2020-03-14T12:10:31","date_gmt":"2020-03-14T16:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports7.us\/?p=1117602"},"modified":"2020-04-19T20:05:09","modified_gmt":"2020-04-20T00:05:09","slug":"ranking-the-4-players-taken-ahead-of-kevin-garnett-in-the-1995-nba-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports7.us\/news\/ranking-the-4-players-taken-ahead-of-kevin-garnett-in-the-1995-nba-draft\/","title":{"rendered":"Ranking the 4 Players Taken Ahead of Kevin Garnett in the 1995 NBA Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
“With the fifth pick in the 1995 NBA draft, the Minnesota Timberwolves select Kevin Garnett from Farragut Academy in Chicago.” These were the words from then-NBA commissioner David Stern<\/a> at the Skydome in Toronto on the evening of June 28, 1995. The first player selected in the draft straight from high school since 1975, Garnett would go on to have one of the great careers in NBA history. <\/p>\n\n\n\n