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Kenny! No last name necessary. Say it on any playground in NYC and everybody knows who you’re talking about. Even the young cats who are on the come up, if they ball on the asphalt of the concrete jungle’s five boroughs, they’ve heard about the legend of Kenny Anderson.
In the most recent issue of Bounce Magazine, #21, we sat down with Kenny to unearth the story of his formative years. To really understand how the playground gave us one of the greatest phenoms in NYC history and hear from the man, in his own words, you need to cop the issue immediately. Read More »
Wow! Peep ‘Rad’s block at 4:00 then his backwards flush at 4:37, then watch towards the end to marvel at Todd “Boogie” a.k.a. Todd “Dangerous.” His handle was bananas! A lot of people forget about him, but for a seven or eight year stretch, the Cal-State Bakersfield guard killed NYC and New Jersey tournaments, and shook a lot of people in the process.
This is classic Entertainer’s Basketball Classic @ Rucker Park footage. You can feel the energy from the crowd reacting to the greatness on the court.
