Kyle Anderson is set to become the next young player to rise to stardom under Gregg Popovich.
Those were the words that legendary St. Anthony’s High School basketball coach Bob Hurley used to describe his All-American senior Kyle Anderson in 2012.
I played high school basketball in New Jersey too; I watched Anderson play half a dozen times, and we competed in the same summer league for two years. I was not buying the Magic Johnson comparison. I thought, ‘How is someone so slow-moving possibly going to have success playing Division I basketball, much less in the NBA?