Education
Saint Anthony"s High School.
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Saint Anthony"s High School.
He previously served as the Director of Player Development for the Houston Rockets in 2007-2008. Born in Huntington, New York, Atkinson played college basketball for University of Richmond, where he led the Spiders to a Sweet Sixteen berth in 1988. He had played professionally in Italy, France, Germany, Spain and the Netherlands from 1990 to 2004.
He had tryouts with several National Basketball Association teams, including the Knicks in summer of 1991.
Atkinson joined the New York Knicks coaching staff as an assistant coach on August 6, 2008. In 2012, after 4 seasons with the Knicks, he joined the Atlanta Hawks coaching staff