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TIL the directors of Uncut Gems, did not want to cast Kevin Garnett because they were "sick Knick fan, my instinct when I saw Kevin’s name was, ‘I hate him. I don’t want him anywhere near my movie,’". After it did not work out with Kobe Bryant, Joel Embiid and Amare Stoudemire they stuck with KG.

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