Former NBA All-Star Kenny Anderson has resigned as head males’s basketball coach at Fisk College after 5 seasons on the helm, per an announcement on Saturday on X, previously often known as Twitter.
In a press release obtained by The Tennessean, Fisk College Athletic Director Valencia Jordan mentioned, “We recognize (Anderson’s) contributions to the Fisk College males’s basketball crew and want him properly in his future pursuits.”
Kenny Anderson is a basketball lifer. He performed faculty basketball for the Georgia Tech Yellowjackets from 1989-1991, then being chosen 2nd general within the 1991 NBA Draft by the New Jersey Nets. He went on to play 15 years within the league, being named an NBA All-Star in 1994.
Anderson joined the Fisk College basketball program in 2018. He spoke about his rent in feedback obtained by WKRN.
“After I walked away from it and I used to be residence, properly, retired,” Anderson mentioned. “I used to be residence in Florida, I didn’t know what I used to be going to do, after which President Rome referred to as me up, mentioned, ‘We would have a job for you right here at Fisk,’ so I got here down to go to Fisk and he mentioned, ‘We want some work,’ however I mentioned, ‘It don’t matter. I’m a coach, it’s one thing I like to do, and I’ll coach these younger males.’”
Per Anderson’s feedback obtained by WKRN, he additionally spoke about how particular it was to teach at an HBCU.
“I’m very emotional on the subject of them, [the] program that I’m teaching and I’m educating these guys. The sport is straightforward to show. I performed the sport with my eyes closed, however my life classes that I’ve realized from my head coach, I’m giving it off to them.”
In his time at Fisk, he went 33-79. The crew’s greatest efficiency underneath his management got here within the 2023-2024 season because the Bulldogs completed 14-16 general and 10-8 within the Gulf Coast Athletic Convention.
