Kenny Anderson Breaks Down Knicks vs Spurs Finals & Shares Incredible NBA Draft Night Story | The Carton Show with Chris McMonigle
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🗓️ 2 June 2026
⏱️ 13 minutes
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NBA and New York City basketball legend Kenny Anderson joins Craig Carton and Chris McMonigle on WFAN to talk about the Knicks' Finals matchup against the Spurs, why Victor Wembanyama is such a unique challenge, Mitchell Robinson's injury impact, and why European basketball is producing so many stars. Plus, Kenny shares stories from his unforgettable NBA Draft night, walking to Madison Square Garden before being selected by the New Jersey Nets, his years in the NBA, coaching young players, and why developing the next generation matters most to him.
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| 0:00.0 | Ladies and gentlemen, joining us now, my dear, dear friend, the king of Lefrak City, Mr. Chibs himself, |
| 0:08.3 | the one, the only, Mr. Kenny Anderson. |
| 0:14.3 | Kenny, how you been, buddy? |
| 0:16.9 | I'm doing great, man. |
| 0:18.8 | Hit me up, said, come on your shots, definitely, man. That's my God. And you with my man, Big Mac. Big Mac. So I said, yeah, definitely I go on, man. Meanwhile, I'm so jealous of you. You spent, it seems to me, like, a month in Italy. Oh. Oh, it was. It was, oh, man, it was the best trip I ever had in my life. No, like two weeks we were there. Where in Italy? Venice. Oh, Venice, Florence. We was all over, man. I said, look at my guy and his beautiful wife, lounging out in Europe. Yeah, thank you. Smoking cigars and joined the scenery. Yeah, it was awesome. It was my best trip, man. I told my wife, I've been all over the world, but that was the best, I'll 55. That was the best trip I've had, man. What's the craziest place in the world you ever went to to play ball? |
| 1:12.8 | Oh, Lithuania. |
| 1:13.7 | Lithuania. I played out there with my mother, yeah, I was out there. |
| 1:17.2 | And it was, it was, it was, it was, you know, I went over there with my mother passed. |
| 1:22.8 | Right. |
| 1:23.7 | The great team, the bonus, the bonus that I played with in portland he was the GM so he got |
| 1:30.7 | me over there and um man they take they take basketball series because you only play twice a week |
| 1:37.0 | so the games is like lit man the games are like man the fans show up right and all that. Yeah, they show up. They show up and act up too. It's great, great basketball. They show up. They act up over there, boy. Well, you were trained for that playing at Rucker. No doubt about that. You know what that's all about. Oh, definitely, definitely. Play it all over in New York. I was trained for it. It didn't matter. Have you kept an eyeball on this Knicks run this postseason, Kenny? Oh, yes, man. And I think everybody's hating on me a little bit because I'm not a Nick fan. I'm a New Yorker. I'm a New Yorker. So I'm going with the Knicks, the Siri. I'm going with the Knicks, man. They're having an awesome year. To tell you the truth, they're having an awesome year. They're playing extremely great basketball. They ran through the East. They just ran through the East. And that's what everybody's saying, that the West is tougher, |
| 2:35.0 | and the East is kind of weak. So, you know, the Knicks go have a handful with the Spurs, |
| 2:40.5 | what Wimby, he's playing. It's just, he's off the hook. |
| 2:44.2 | I always wondered this, Kenny. |
| 2:45.8 | As one of the great point guards of all time, obviously New York guys, it's legendary. We saw the great Kevin Durant dot point gods that you were in. Guys, that great for Alston, you know, skip to my Lou and Kenny Smith and all the great guards that came out of here. I want you to do me a favor. As you, as an expert basketball, your mind, I want you to tell me what you would do to try to take on Jalen Brunson. |
| 3:11.1 | Like, if you have the rock in your hands, what's his weakness that you would attack? |
| 3:16.3 | I would just go at him every time down. |
| 3:20.6 | You just got, that's all you're going to have to do. |
| 3:23.0 | You got to have another point. |
| 3:41.2 | And the Spurs have that. They have two or three guys. And, you know, I'm only six two. So, you know, he would be, offensively, he's great. So I would just have to, let's so much just tire him out or put him in foul trouble, things of that nature. |
| 3:42.9 | That's what they're going to have to try to do. |
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