One of my all time favorite players. A blue collar worker and one of the first point forwards. He had sick handle. Get well big man.
He was a hip hop icon being memorialized in The Beastie Boys song "B-Boys Makin' With The Freak Freak" on the album Ill Communication. "I Get My Hair Cut Correct Like Anthony Mason...Then I Ride The I.R.T. Right Up To Penn Station".