Bernard King was born on December 4,1956 and is an American former professional basketball player at the small forward position in the National Basketball Association.
19 Facts About Bernard King
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Bernard King played 14 seasons with the New Jersey Nets, Utah Jazz, Golden State Warriors, New York Knicks, and Washington Bullets.
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Bernard King was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame on September 8,2013.
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Bernard King attended college at the University of Tennessee and played college basketball for the Tennessee Volunteers.
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Bernard King followed this with another 50-point performance at Dallas, setting a Reunion Arena single-game scoring record in the process.
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Bernard King scored 11 points in both the first and second quarters and 14 points in both the third and fourth quarters.
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Bernard King drew 13 fouls on Dallas Mavericks defenders, including Mark Aguirre, who fouled out.
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Bernard King had scored 40 points by halftime, and finished the game with 19 of 30 shooting from the field and 22 of 26 from the free throw line.
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At the peak of his career Bernard King suffered a devastating injury to his right leg while planting it under the hoop attempting to block a dunk by Kansas City Bernard King Reggie Theus.
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On November 3,1990, Bernard King scored 44 points in a win over Michael Jordan and the Bulls, which was the most points Bernard King had scored in a game since his devastating 1985 knee injury.
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That season, Bernard King was selected to his fourth all-star team.
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From 1989 to 1991, Bernard King averaged 20-plus points in three consecutive seasons.
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Bernard King's scoring average peaked at 28.4 points per game at age 34 in 1991, which included ten games where King scored more than 40 points.
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Bernard King retired with 19,655 points in 874 games, good for a 22.5 points per game average and number 16 on the all-time NBA scoring list at the time of his retirement.
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That year, Bernard King averaged 21.9 points per game after having played just 19 games the season before with the Utah Jazz.
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Bernard King is working as a part-time broadcaster for NBA TV as well as the MSG Network, filling in on some occasions as color commentator when Walt Frazier is on vacation.
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Bernard King made an appearance in Miami Vice as Matt Ferguson, son of Judge Roger Ferguson, a basketball star with the fictitious Florida Sunblazers in the episode "The Fix".
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Bernard King appeared in the 1979 movie Fast Break.
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Bernard King took six different lie detector tests claiming that he was so drunk he had no recollection of what had happened that night, passing each test.