Kevin Garnett, who retired last year after 21 seasons in the NBA, used Facebook Live to broadcast from New Orleans during Saturday’s All-Star Slam Dunk Contest in a second-screen experience that could be found on his KG Area 21 Facebook page.
Former NBA player and current TNT analyst Charles Barkley joined Garnett. The duo ate beignets and gave live analysis of dunks from Aaron Gordon, DeAndre Jordan, Glenn Robinson III and Derrick Jones Jr., as it was Verizon that sponsored both the dunk contest and Garnett’s show.
After narrowly losing the dunk title in 2016 to Zach LaVine, Gordon entered the contest as the heavy favorite.