Anderson honed his game on the New York City playgrounds, starred at Archbishop Molloy High School in Queens and was deemed the finest prosect from the area since Lew Alcindor.

The Embassy in Moscow has sent no equivalent of the "Thinking the Unthinkable" cable sent by William Sullivan, the Ambassador in Teheran that raised the prosect that the Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi would be ousted in the weeks before the Iranian Revolution in early 1979.