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Kenneth Anderson (born October 9, 1970) is an American former professional
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player. After a college career at
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, he played point guard professionally from 1991 to 2006, mostly in the
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.


Early life

Anderson was born in
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. As a 16-year-old high school sophomore, the LeFrak City, Queens native who attended academic and athletic powerhouse
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, was considered one of the best basketball prospects in America. Collegiate recruiters began scouting Anderson in sixth grade and he was on the front page of the New York City sports section when he was 14. By the end of his high school career, he was a four-time '' Parade'' All-American, a feat not accomplished since
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, and the first player to be named All-City four times. He was a
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, was named New York State Mr. Basketball by the New York State Coaches Organization, and named High School Basketball Player of the Year by Gatorade, the
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, benching him for the first quarter of all of his games during his freshman year at Molloy, Anderson set the all-time state record for scoring in New York, with 2,621 points. This record stood until 2004, when Lincoln High School guard
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eclipsed the mark late in his senior season. He was considered the No. 1 player in the country, over such notables as Jimmy Jackson and Shaquille O'Neal.


College career

After a long recruiting process, Anderson signed a letter of intent in November 1988 to play at
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, selecting the Yellow Jackets over
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, and Syracuse. Anderson played two years for Georgia Tech as the team's starting point guard, helping lead the team to the Final Four in
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, along with swingmen Dennis Scott and Brian Oliver. The trio was nicknamed "Lethal Weapon 3". Despite winning the ACC title, they entered the NCAA tourney as only the fourth seed. They proceeded to sweep through the
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, led by Shaquille O'Neal, and two Big 10 teams on their way to the Final Four. Georgia Tech's tournament run ended against eventual champions
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in the Final Four. With Scott and Oliver gone after that season, Anderson averaged nearly 26 points per game. Georgia Tech secured a No. 8 seed for the 1991 NCAA tournament, where they lost in the second round to
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. Soon after, Anderson announced that he would forgo his last two years of eligibility to enter the NBA draft.


College statistics

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Professional career

Anderson was selected by the
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with the second pick in the 1991 NBA draft. He was the youngest player in the league in his rookie year, and averaged seven points, two
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, and 3.2 assists per game. During Anderson's second season he nearly doubled his point, rebound, and assist averages en route to the Nets making the
1992 NBA playoffs The 1992 NBA playoffs was the postseason tournament following the National Basketball Association's 1991-92 season. The tournament concluded with the Eastern Conference champion Chicago Bulls defeating the Western Conference champion Portland ...
. While in New Jersey, coached by Chuck Daly, Anderson formed what was widely expected to become a "big three" of sorts with
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and Drazen Petrovic. However, Petrovic’s 1993 death in a car accident prevented this from coming to fruition. In his third season, he averaged career-highs of 18.8 points and 9.6 assists per game. That season, on February 18, 1994, Anderson scored a career-high 42 points and recorded 14 assists during a 119-114 win over the
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. That same season, Anderson and teammate Coleman represented the East squad in the
1994 NBA All-Star Game The 1994 NBA All-Star Game was the 44th edition of the All-Star Game. The event was held in Minneapolis. The East All-Stars won the game with the score of 127–118. Scottie Pippen of the Chicago Bulls was voted MVP of the game. It was broadcas ...
. He was traded to the Charlotte Hornets in 1996, along with Gerald Glass, in a deal for
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. In 1996 Anderson signed with the
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. During the
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, Anderson averaged 17 points, 4.8 assists, and 4.3 rebounds per game during Portland’s first round loss to the Los Angeles Lakers. In 1998, the Trail Blazers traded Anderson, along with
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,
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, and two 1998 first-round picks to the
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for
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, Carlos Rogers,
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, and a 1998 second-round pick, but he refused to report to the team because he did not want to play in Canada, which prompted the Raptors to trade him to the Boston Celtics, along with
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for John Thomas,
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, and Dee Brown. Anderson spent a considerable amount of time as a Celtic before he was sent to the
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, along with
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and
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, and in a package for
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and
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. At the 2003 NBA trade deadline, Anderson was dealt back to the Hornets, who had since relocated to New Orleans, for
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. He then played as a reserve point guard for the Indiana Pacers,
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, and
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. Anderson was released from Lithuania's Žalgiris Kaunas after the 2005–06 season, thus ending his professional career as a basketball player.


National team career

Anderson played for the U.S. national team in the 1990 FIBA World Championship, where they won the bronze medal.


Personal life

Anderson was raised by his mother, Joan, and did not meet his father until he was in his thirties. He has two sisters, Sandra and Danielle. He was poor growing up, but Anderson says that being able to provide for his mother was inspiration for him to become a professional basketball player. In October 2005, his mother died from a
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. Anderson is the father of seven children, by four women. He became a father of a daughter while attending Georgia Tech. He had a relationship with Dee Dee Roper (
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of the rap group Salt-n-Pepa), and they have a daughter together. He was married to
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(who has appeared on the reality series '' Basketball Wives''), but they divorced. They have two daughters, including hip-hop artist Jazz Anderson. Anderson met his second wife Tamiyka R Lockhart in West Los Angeles in 1998 while they both were going through divorces. They have a son together, Kenneth Anderson Jr. They divorced in 2004. He met his third wife, Natasha, during the 2004 NBA playoffs. They married in 2007. Anderson and Natasha are raising his son Kenny Jr. and her daughter. In 2005, despite earning $63 million during his NBA career, Anderson filed for bankruptcy. In 2013, Anderson reported that he was sexually abused as a child by both a person who lived in his neighborhood and a basketball coach. In February 2019, Anderson was hospitalized for several days near his home of Pembroke Pines, Florida after suffering a stroke.


After the NBA

In 2007, Anderson was named as the coach of the Continental Basketball Association's Atlanta Krunk. The team was owned by
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of
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. In 2008, Anderson made a TV appearance on ''
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''. In September 2008, he was inducted into the New York City Basketball Hall of Fame. In 2008, he became the head coach of
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, and helped them to a semi-finals berth. Anderson graduated in 2010 from St. Thomas University in Miami, with a degree in organizational leadership. In August 2011, Anderson took the position of basketball coach at the David Posnack Jewish Day School in
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. In May 2013, following a DUI arrest, the school indicated that they would not renew his contract. In 2014, Anderson was named to a team assembled by
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as part of his "basketball diplomacy" effort in
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with the job of playing an exhibition match against the North Korean Senior National Team to celebrate the birthday of Kim Jong-un. In 2015, Anderson appeared in
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's reality TV show '' Wake Up Call''. In 2017, Anderson appeared in ''Mr. Chibbs'', directed by Jill Campbell. This documentary tracked Anderson's life post basketball as he came to terms with personal demons in his life. In 2018, Anderson was hired as the head basketball coach for Fisk University.


NBA career statistics


Regular season

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Playoffs

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New Jersey New Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York; on the east, southeast, and south by the Atlantic Ocean; on the west by the Delaware ...
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1997 File:1997 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The movie set of ''Titanic'', the highest-grossing movie in history at the time; '' Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'', is published; Comet Hale-Bopp passes by Earth and becomes one of ...
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Portland Portland most commonly refers to: * Portland, Oregon, the largest city in the state of Oregon, in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States * Portland, Maine, the largest city in the state of Maine, in the New England region of the northeas ...
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Boston Boston (), officially the City of Boston, is the state capital and most populous city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as well as the cultural and financial center of the New England region of the United States. It is the 24th- mo ...
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New Orleans New Orleans ( , ,New Orleans
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Indiana Indiana () is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States. It is the 38th-largest by area and the 17th-most populous of the 50 States. Its capital and largest city is Indianapolis. Indiana was admitted to the United States as the 19th s ...
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NBA.com biography
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