NBA legend Kevin Garnett recently shared an eye-opening and hilarious story about his experience at the 2000 Olympics during an episode of All The Smoke. While the Olympics are usually celebrated for their intense competition and national pride, Garnett revealed a wild, behind-the-scenes reality of life inside the Olympic Village.
The most jaw-dropping moment of his story?
Witnessing 10,000 condoms disappear in less than 30 seconds as athletes from around the world scrambled to grab them like it was a Black Friday sale.
“Let me tell you something, the Olympics is all gang banger. You go through the village, yo. So I’m going to go ahead and say something I probably ain’t going to say, but yeah. So the dopest part about the Olympics, y’all, is day one when you get there. They got a place that only the athletes can go.”
“So you come in the village—me, Ray Allen, Jason Kidd, and Dice walk through the village on the first day. We go to the game room. This game room is probably about 10,000 square feet. It’s got games. It’s got everything you can do in here. Everybody is in the middle hitting the table. Every athlete that’s in the Olympics is in this room hitting the table.”
“As we’re walking in, there are dorms. It looked like apartments, like townhomes. But everybody got a Brazilian flag. You look over here, it’s the Swedish flag. In this, you see n***as in Speedos. The girls walking—like, it’s about a thousand people just walking around, walking with a Dominican flag. It’s this.”
“We’re going in here, everybody hitting the table. Some small dude, you can’t even see him. He got a trash can. He walking, he walking. Finally, he gets to this big old bowl on the table. You don’t even know this is a bowl. The man dumps about 10,000 condoms in the middle of the thing. And then, as he gets out of the way, you can’t even see him no more because after about 30 seconds, it’s not a condom left in the bowl.”
“It cracked so hard, security got us out of there. It’s like, ‘No, you’ve got to get y’all out of here.’ And they don’t let NBA players in the village because they’re so influential. They got us out of there so fast. I’m talking about NBA security.”
“You remember Horace? Y’all remember Horace? Y’all remember Horace from security? He’s like, ‘Oh, no, no, we got to get y’all out of here.’ So they would always have the players and all of us like 90 minutes away with the ladies and all that. And then they have the Olympic Village.”
“But it was one of the best times in my life, dog. When you come out, and you walk out, and you represent your country. Y’all put the flag up, man. Australia talking their s**t—’Oy, oy, oy! Ozzie, Ozzie, Ozzie!’ The n***a Torpedo—it was a kid, they called him the Torpedo because he had like a 17-foot wingspan.”
“Him and Michael Phelps was talking—’Yo, we’re going to smash all the mermaids. Man, we’re going to eat your f**king lunch tomorrow, man.’ Michael Phelps was like, ‘F**k y’all. We in Maryland, USA.’ We was like, ‘What?'”
“Yo, it was like almost World War III in the back. You gotta wait, but there’s friction back there. Lord, beef in the play, y’all. Yeah, and then they finna race, they finna swim. So it’s a bunch of that back there, bro. It was like, ‘What is this?’ But then I saw Serena and Venus and then Michael Phelps. I’m like, ‘Oh, we about to get it in here as Americans?'”
“Oh, man, it was a whole ‘nother feel. And it had a true, like—you feel me? It was like some true representation. We over here in Australia, we’re going to have to ride as Americans, so we’re going to have to all stick together. But it was a great time because then you come out, you bite and go, you talking that s**t, but they talking that s**t too.”
“You know what? All the athletes, man, everybody was aggressive. You see the big Brazilian volleyball players, they looking at you, you looking at them. Everybody looked dangerous. Don’t nobody know how to speak no language, but you feel me? Energy speaks.”
“Listen, if you can ever go to the Olympics, go to the Olympics, bro. It’s a great experience.”
Beyond the insanity, Garnett also spoke about the camaraderie among American athletes. Seeing Serena and Venus Williams, Michael Phelps, and other USA legends created a sense of national unity. Despite language barriers, energy and competition spoke for themselves.
Whether it was swimmers talking trash before their races or basketball players locking in for game day, the Olympics were a once-in-a-lifetime experience.
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