Kevin Garnett’s ticket to immortality

Photo by Barry Chin/The Boston Globe via Getty Images There are heroes, and there are legends. And then, there is Michele Tafoya, then the NBA sideline reporter for the NBA on ABC who on June 16, 2008, was tasked with navigating a mob that engulfed the parquet floor of TD Garden in an effort to find Kevin Garnett. Of course, that’s too tall an order, given that Garnett stands tall and distinctive, a 6-foot-11 behemoth of a man overwhelmed with joy. Corralling him was one thing. Interviewing him, at that moment? Another animal entirely.

But Tafoya did it, as if there was ever any doubt she would. With microphone in hand, voice turned up to 11 in an effort to drown out the swarm of bodies…