After NBA glory, demons haunt NYC basketball legend Kenny Anderson

“I study downfalls,” a young Kenny Anderson told Sports Illustrated more than 20 years ago. The implication was obvious: By analyzing where other stars went wrong, Anderson could avoid a similar fate.  

This was 1994. Anderson was 23 years old and blossoming as an NBA star after a two-year All-American career at Georgia Tech. 

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Before that, he’d been a prep basketball legend from Queens, a wizard of a point guard who broke ankles and threaded no-look passes as a young prodigy in the world’s media capital. Now here he was, making big NBA money, beaming a superstar’s smile, and giving interviews to Sports Illustrated.  Read more…

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