Kenny Anderson

I was pretty adamant early on that he was the player that I felt the Nets should target with the number six pick in the draft, and it never seems to work out that what I think the Nets should do is what they ultimately do, but they did it here, so I'm excited to see it, man, because this is the first time that the Nets have had a rookie with this skill set probably ever in terms of a rookie guard or a rookie point guard.

I mean, if we're talking high-level guards that the Nets have drafted and developed and, you know, try to develop as homegrown players, I mean, you're going all the way back to the 90s with guys like Kenny Anderson and Kerry Kittles.

And, you know, those guys are very good players.

But I think we could all agree that Mikel – possesses a more dynamic skill set than both of those guys and if you're talking about you know some of what Nets fans can look for during this debut and during you know just Mikel's rookie season and what it cites me most about Mikel it's just his versatility and his ability to fit into Jordy Fernandez's scheme and that was a common theme when I talked to a lot of draft people there was you know, there were a fair amount of draft people who I talked to who weren't as high on Michael Brown Jr. as they were on some of the other guys in the Nets range, but they liked Michael for this Nets situation specifically because of Jordy Fernandez, because of the way that Michael's skill set can fit into that.

Happy birthday to Steve McQueen, the director.

Uh, he did 12 Years a Slave, right? Happy birthday to Kenny Anderson.

Happy birthday to Jimbo Fisher.

Happy birthday to Mike Singletary.

Yo, yo, to corny niggas, y'all get ate (Ate) My shit'll make you faint (Faint) So much platinum on my walls that I can hardly see the fuckin' paint (Paint) You think it ain't, but for a year I stopped recordin' (What) Now look, we comin' back and runnin' shit like fuckin' Michael Jordan (Damn) Accordin' to my niggas in the sewer (What) Yo, you a (You a) corny nigga, so we gots to do ya

Since all my niggas on the block Handlin' rock like Kenny Anderson I'm brandishin' stickity style that keep MCs vanishin' Scatterin', fuck it, styles don't be matterin' My pattern's amazin', son blazin' like the Saturn Battlin's a no-no (Nah), got more flame than coco I'm paid and still jooked you with a blade from my logo So take your style and go-go like DC, nigga Y'all know the hats, we movin' strapped from the East, nigga

Mayday, mayday

It's crazy, crazy payday I riggity-wreck it every day, kick shit like fuckin' Pele Or Ray J (What) Minute 'cause we get in it for the masses (What) Classic, yo KRS come kill up in they asses Follow me, follow me with my syllable, syllable Lyrical criminal, MC threats are minimal To my physical, they just whittle and whittle away With little and little to say as they prittle and prattle away They say, "Okay," but I chop that ass up anyway Push your handle, I got mad MC heads up on a mantle I got genuine MC skin sandals I like to light up like a candle, watch it melt 'Cause when I felt lyrics you felt was screamin' for help when you hear it (What) You can't bear it, you can't even wear it You all should just cheer it, go and get in the spirit of that Fa-la-la-la-la, I'm comin' with that rah-rah Rock your mic 'til you was goo-goo ga-ga to your mama You wanted to battle KRS when you was young, you told your papa He slapped you in your head and said, "Uh-uh" But you didn't heed the warnin' Now I'm in your place, now I'm in your face Lookin' at your crew, but they all broke out because they nothin' but lace KRS is like mace in your motherfuckin' face Yo, DJ, turn on the bass

When was handshake rule killed in 2004? Handshaking still exists.

i just think that you're the ball handler hand checking never stopped anybody from who was really good with the ball in their hands this is what i'm saying like i want to say kenny anderson was a 20 point per game guy at 6-1 you know what i'm saying and i'm like as physical as the it was in the 90s like guys who could really like what did the league do when grant hill when they saw grant hill he was 6-8 and he had a basic right to left crossover You know what I'm saying? Like, they couldn't check him.

Now that's a basic move.

I see big dribble like that.

Yo, you a corny nigga, so we got some niggas on the block.

Handling rock like Kenny Anderson.

I'm brandishing.

Stick to these styles that keep MCs vanishing.

LeBron has been telling everybody he's the greatest basketball player of all time, and how does he sink that in his brain, his little pea brain? He is not the greatest basketball player of all time, and anybody that knows basketball, and anybody...

I don't wanna hear about Kenny's, Kenny Anderson coming on the show-

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... agreeing with Quentin Kopel about what Michael Jordan and what, like...

Even though Kenny Anderson said that Michael Jordan's the greatest basketball player of all time, but he didn't take away the greatness of Mi- uh, LeBron James.

I never take the greatness of LeBron James away either.

But the youngsters, the young fans don't know Michael Jordan, so how would they even know how good Michael Jordan was in the '80s and the '90s? You wouldn't.

So the storyline is he put up a fake sign that wasn't even, uh, p- uh, said by the, by this player.

And New York City point guards are stylish and flashy, and they grow up playing on the playground.

And the no-look pass and the alley-oop and the between your legs and behind your back, like it was a thing, right? So when you see Kenny Anderson playing at Georgia Tech, right? Or you even saw Smush Parker playing at Fordham or Kenny Smith at UNC, they all brought this style to, to point guard play that they developed on the playgrounds of New York City.

And for my money and for most people's money who know New York City point guards, there's no New York City point guard better, more stylish, more emblematic of the period than Dwayne 'The Pearl' Washington.

And Pearl Washington was born in 1964, Brownsville, New York.

And I really wish Pearl Washington heard more of this when he, when he was able to.

People spoke about his brilliance as a basketball player.

They spoke about this young prodigy who was better than Mark Jackson, who was better than Kenny Anderson, who was better than Kenny Smith, who was better than Stephon Marbury, who was probably the most important basketball player in the history of Syracuse, certainly in establishing the program.

They spoke about a guy who, yeah, the NBA career didn't work out, but he never lost his decency and his kindness and a really fun sense of humor and a, and a love of life.