High school basketball became really big in the mid-90s because so many kids who got through elementary school daydreaming about the Bulls and then imitating their moves after school with their friends were now in high school, and the crop of phenoms that came out that year had Nike and Gatorade-fed daydreams unlike any other. They all played Lakers vs. Celtics on Sega Genesis, knew all the players, and the very best of them played side by side at Farragut High School in Chicago, the very hub of this new basketball psychosis thanks to Jordan and Pippen's Bulls. Their names were Kevin Garnett and Ronnie Fields.

Garnett has gone on to be a world famous player. He won the 04 NBA MVP award, the 08 NBA championship, and was the very first player in any sport to ever make over 100 million dollars. For Ronnie Fields it was a different story. At 31, he plays for a CBA team in Minot, North Dakota.

Go back in time fourteen years. They're playing high school kids and just annihalating them. They come down court and Garnett was tall and skinny as hell. He surprises you by making hard kick out passes while underneath the basket. He dunks and it's artistic and professional like the splash an Olympic diver makes -- it's nothing, and it appears it could be done through a very very small margin of space. Then comes Ronnie Fields. He comes down the court slow, the crowd gets excited, he goes up very slow, and suddenly the rim is touching the top of shoulder and he still hasn't raised his hands.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!! He throws the ball down hard enough that it hits the ceiling on the return bounce from the floor.

Next time down, Fields jumps out of rotation to steal the point guard's dribble because in his mind, there's only like 3 out of 10,000 point guards that won't lose their stomachs when they see him coming, or they dribble way too high -- so he grabs their dribble from them, comes down again, has a brand new move in mind (pay attention, San Antonio Spurs) and BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!! This time he vaults like an M-80 high enough to dunk with a fully extended arm separating the rim from his shoulder.

People are like DAAAAAAAMN.

And then the kids on the other teams try to do it. They come down court and people in the stands are loudly talking to each other, saying "this guy's gonna hurt himself." And sure enough he embarrasses himself, confuses himself on the way up thinking he's got to outdo just a normal dunk, and misses the dunk and falls down on his butt.

HHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH the kids laugh HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!

Farragut would dominate the public league season, killing everybody, finally beating Carver for the city title. But then they got downstate and lost to a Thornton team consisting of Antwaan Randle-El who threw a touchdown in the Super Bowl eleven years later, Tai Streets who started at reciever for the 49ers for 7 years, and Melvin Ely who plays on the New York Knicks.

At the time I was a junior in high school, and that's when you take the ACTs. Well the big story was that Kevin Garnett was getting 14, 15, 13, 15, meanwhile everyone in my class was getting 25, 28, 33. It is this very thing that led to him going pro.

He ended up doing great and filled out his body frame.

Fields ended up getting in trouble and almost paralyzing himself in a car accident. I met one of the assistant coaches at DePaul somehow, and remember asking him about Ronnie Fields. He acted like I had hit on something very hurtful and disappointing and he refused to discuss it.

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