One of the greatest players to ever come out of New York, Kenny Anderson was a high school phenom at Archbishop Molloy under coach Jack Curran, where he joined elite company with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar as the only players to be all-city in all 4 years. He went on to Georgia Tech and formed the “Lethal Weapon 3” trio alongside Dennis Scott and Brian Oliver and helped lead Georgia Tech to the first Final Four appearance in program history. He followed up an incredible freshman year with an even better sophomore year and by the time the 1991 NBA draft came along, he would be picked 2nd overall by the New Jersey Nets. The Nets already featured Derrick Coleman and Drazen Petrovic and by 1993, it seemed to be only a matter of time until they were among the league’s elite. Sadly, during the summer of 1993, Petrovic was killed in a car accident. Anderson remained on the Nets for a few more seasons, but the relationship slowly soured. He would be traded to the Charlotte Hornets in 1996, then sign with the Portland trailblazers going into ’97 where he was one of many great acquisitions, alongside Rasheed Wallace and Isaiah Rider. Anderson would have one of the best years of his career, but by the second half of the ’98 season, he had been traded to Boston to play with Antoine Walker and Paul Pierce. Anderson didn’t have much success in Boston, aside from being part of the surprising 2002 Boston Celtics team who made a run to the Eastern Conference Finals. Anderson would spend the final years of his career as a journeyman until he was out of the NBA by 2005. Kenny Anderson had lofty expectations and wasn’t able to live up to them, but that doesn’t change that he was one of the league’s top point guards for a few years in the mid 90s with his elite ball handling and playmaking, and if circumstances would have been different, Kenny Anderson may have seen himself in the all time conversation.
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