For Kenny Atkinson, the love of the game can most easily defined by the list of teams —and countries— he played over a 14-year career from the time he left the University of Richmond in 1991 till he went into coaching, first with Paris Racing Basket, in 2005.
He played in Atlantic City; Salmanca, Spain; Naples, Italy; Braunschweig and Paderborn, Germany; Monpelier, Golbey, Mulhouse, Evreux and Nantes, France; as well as Amsterdam in the Netherlands ... among others. Some of the gigs were short, a few games here and there.
The Long Island native was a basketball vagabond.