27 Facts About Bernard King

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.

Bernard King played 14 seasons with the New Jersey Nets, Utah Jazz, Golden State Warriors, New York Knicks, and Washington Bullets.

Bernard King was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame on September 8,2013.

Bernard King was born on December 4,1956, in Brooklyn, New York.

Bernard King developed his basketball skills on the playgrounds of Fort Hamilton, Brooklyn, near Madison Square Garden.

Bernard King used the outdoor courts in New York City to refine his game and as an escape from his surroundings.

Bernard King attended the University of Tennessee, where he had a successful collegiate basketball career.

Bernard King attended college at the University of Tennessee and played college basketball for the Tennessee Volunteers.

Bernard King followed this with another 50-point performance at Dallas, setting a Reunion Arena single-game scoring record in the process.

Bernard King scored 11 points in both the first and second quarters and 14 points in both the third and fourth quarters.

Bernard King drew 13 fouls on Dallas Mavericks defenders, including Mark Aguirre, who fouled out.

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.

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.

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.

That season, Bernard King was selected to his fourth all-star team.

From 1989 to 1991, Bernard King averaged 20-plus points in three consecutive seasons.

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.

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.

That year, Bernard King averaged 21.9 points per game after having played just 19 games the season before with the Utah Jazz.

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.

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".

Bernard King appeared in the 1979 movie Fast Break.

In July 1977, a month after being drafted by the Nets, Bernard King was arrested and charged with burglary for breaking into a UT athletics building to steal a television set.

Bernard King had earlier been suspended from the Tennessee team after being arrested for marijuana possession, drunk driving, and resisting arrest, which stemmed from an arrest after police were called by a woman who said a man was trying to break into her apartment, and upon arrival they found King in the hallway.

In December 1978, Bernard King was arrested by the NYPD while sleeping in his car with "less than $10 worth" of cocaine on hand, and was charged with several misdemeanors, later dropped.

In October 2004, Bernard King was again arrested in New York for battery of his wife Shana, who told authorities he had pushed her to the ground three times; the incident left her black and blue with bruises on her eye and swelling on her forehead.

The charges were dropped after Bernard King agreed to marriage counseling sessions, but the incident cost Bernard King a promotional relationship with local property developer Bruce Ratner, as well as resulting in his name being removed as an honoree of the Brooklyn Public Library.