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NBA All-Star Kenny Anderson gained notoriety as one of the nation's best basketball players at an extremely young age.  Collegiate recruits began scouting him 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, Kenny was named a Parade All-American three times, the first player since Lew Alcindor to accomplish the feat. He was the first player to be named All-City four times, and was a McDonald's All-American, Gatorade High School Player of the Year, Parade Player of the Year, Naismith College Player of the Year, USA Today Player of the Year, and New York State Sportswriters Association Player of the Year, and was named New York State's Mr. Basketball.   Despite never playing in the first quarter of any games during his freshman year at Archbishop Molloy High School, Anderson set the all-time state record for scoring in New York, with 2621 points, a record which stood until 2004.

In 1988, Kenny signed a letter of intent to play at Georgia Tech, choosing the Yellow Jackets over North Carolina, Duke, and Syracuse.  He quickly became the team's starting point guard, and helped lead the team to the Final Four in 1990.  That year, Anderson also earned a bronze medal with Team USA in the 1990 FIBA World Championship.  After averaging nearly 26 points per game in his second season at Georgia Tech, he decided to forego his last two years of eligibility to enter the NBA Draft.

Kenny was selected 2nd overall in the 1991 NBA Draft by the New Jersey Nets, becoming the youngest player in the league at that time.  In his third season, he averaged 18.8 points and 9.6 assists per game and was named to the East squad in the 1994 NBA All-Star Game. Throughout the remainder of his NBA career, Anderson played for the Hornets (both the Charlotte and New Orleans franchises), Portland Trail Blazers, Boston Celtics, Seattle SuperSonics, Indiana Pacers, Atlanta Hawks, and Los Angeles Clippers, giving him unique insight into the diverse coaching techniques and strategies used in the game today. His professional basketball career ended after the 2005-2006 season.

Kenny was inducted into the New York City Basketball Hall of Fame in September of 2008, and, in 2010, he entered into a partnership with 24 Hour Fitness to operate a series of youth basketball camps.