Anderson's life is the subject of a new documentary.
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February 23, 2004 -- Some fans might know Kenny Anderson only as that guy who has dropped to No. 3 on Pacers point-guard depth chart. The basketball enthusiast, however, recalls him as the nation's top-ranked high school player in 1989 from Archbishop Molloy High School who still stands as New York state's all-time leading scorer.

Anderson's story, of a kid from a single-parent home in an impoverished area of Queens who escaped to college and the NBA, is the subject of a documentary being filmed by Rodney Henry and Michael Bohusz of Fastbreak Entertainment.

Henry and Bohusz have interviewed former teachers and administrators at Molloy, friends from his neighborhood and coaches such as Rick Carlisle, Bobby Cremins -- who recruited Anderson to Georgia Tech -- Dean Smith and Jim Boeheim. They've also talked to Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, Isiah Thomas, Jimmy Jackson, Mark Jackson, Kenny Smith, Jim Brown and Spike Lee.

Anderson sees it as an instructional film for aspiring high school athletes. "It's about how a kid in the inner city, if he wants to make it, has to have certain ingredients to get out of the negativity and the peer pressure," Anderson said. "There are things you have to do to get to this level."

Anderson would know.