UNSTOPPABLE: BERNARD KING STORY
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- Bernard KinG is an American retired professional basketball player at the small forward position in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played 14 seasons with the New Jersey Nets, Utah Jazz, Golden State Warriors, New York Knicks and the Washington Bullets. He was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame on September 8, 2013. His younger brother, Albert, has also played in the NBA during his career.
How have the Knicks not retired his number? Not just for his amazing hall of fame playing there but for representing NYC since day one! Underrated legend.
This guy was a scoring MACHINE!! If you never saw it you just don't know.
FACTS. had to grow up during that time to understand.. LEGEND.
@@frizza241I would take Bernard King over Kobe Bryant any day
Greatest Knicks of all time:
PG - Walt Frazier
SG - Earl Monroe
C - Patrick Ewing
SF - Bernard King
PF - Willis Reed
He is so underated he was incredible scored at will even after 2 knee injuries with the bullets he averaged 29 a game
I went to the Tennessee game in 1975 in Memorial Coliseum and watched Bernard King drop a bomb on Kentucky. He was as good an offensive player as has ever lifted a basketball. He is in the same group as Elgin Baylor, Jerry West, Oscar Robinson, Wilt, Kareem, Michael Jordan, Kobe, and Lebron. No telling how many points he would have had without the injury.
If he didnt get hurt top easily
Thank you for sharing a great memory. Our young brothers will only have respect for the greats of "old" is if we OG's tell them stories about how good the players who built this game really were.
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Pre knee surgery Bernard king was unstoppable on the basketball 🏀 court
Bernard King is the reason why I am still a Knick Fan. Just imagine this man playing in this era.
One of My Favorite Ballplayers of All Time. Onecof my favorite Small Forwards, right up with Dr. J. While Doc had Stratospheric Leaping and Floating ability King had a variety of Unstopple shots, especially the Turnaround.
That turnaround on the left block was money
@@LostBoysBasketball To not have king on the all time 75 list is incomprehensible,50 yrs of watching basketball u can make a legit argument, In his prime he was the greatest small forward ever!
It’s crazy how I spent a whole day with this man and didn’t even know who he was and now I’m finding out he is a nba legend
I was a warehouse guy back in the day and loaded a truck load of furniture for a former NBA player. He was very polite. It's the humble side of of many pro athletes that I really respect.
One of the best basketball players ever!!
THIS MAN PLAYED HIS ASS OFF.DAY'S WHEN YOU PLAYED EVERY DAY&MAGIC MAN,ICE MAN. 70&80,S WAS THE SHIT I LOVE THEME DAY'S! THE BEST.
One of my favorite players in the 80s very underrated one of the best mid range shooters in NBA history should have been on the 50 Greatest Players List.
My favorite player ever... Simply unstoppable!
I remember as a teenager I was so heart broken when he got his knee injury.
what a CLASS ACT ! strength , skill, heart, and dignity ! BK!
Definitely deserves to be in the hall of fame.
Great,great player! Unstoppable!!!
Probably the Greatest 1 on 1 player ever!
So true
Bernard King was a Beast. He was unstoppable.
I was front row that game he blew his knee out in KC. 16:34 in the clip thats me on the far right of the 4 seated on the front row. The noise it made when he planted and it blew we all knew or thought his playing days were done! It sounded like a shotgun goin off! he was so fun to watch. :o)
Underrated player of alltime
EJSBeast : Dennis Johnson, Alex English, Sidney Moncrief, Tom Chambers, Jack Sikma, and Dominique Wilkins were extremely underrated, too.
@@DeCurtaRican you can take moncrief and sikma out. sikma if anything is OVER rated. wilkins gets his, dj english chambers yes yes
Alvin robertson...most underrated of all time! Go bucks
@@orbonds3603 Go Razorbacks!
@@orbonds3603 bernard king, gave machiel jordan a whipping
It's about time somebody gives this guy some props!! when you talk the greats I never could understand how this man's name did not come up
true fans knew all about Bernard King. losing 2 years in his prime hurt him and then going to washington where little attention was paid with magic, jordan , thomas, drexler, etc. playing didnt help sadly enough.
he deserves more respect and fame than mj tbh. he's such an amazing player. Probably the best NBA has ever seen. RESPECT.
I loved his play.. the turnaround jumper from the baseline was like no other! First class man and ballplayer.
To bad he was a convicted rapist and a drug addict and a wife beater?
@@faealldayable typical white boy comment
I wish he was healthy enough to play with Ewing for the rest of his career
They would have won a championship
@@tamaku2903 Hell yeah. DAMN the Bulls Knicks rivalry could've been that much greater
Image that....Mark Jackson, A healthy King, Kenny Walker, and Ewing....that's not good....
If his knees were healthy they win some championships. NY already ran the World Champion Celtics 7 games with Bird, McHale, Parish, DJ, Etc. If Bernard never hurt his knees think about it....Young Ewing comes into the league without the pressure of having to score. So he can fulfill that role of defense, shot blocking, that had people comparing him to Bill Russell.
Whole dynamic changes.
Bernard king gave Larry bird private lessons on the basketball 🏀 court
Still the greatest offensive player the Knicks ever had. And He carried mediocre Knick teams in 83' and 84' on his back. His knee injury was heartbreaking. Knick fans were devastated.
I almost cried and I'm a Celtic fan. I loved it when The Sixers and Knicks gave us some competition and those Knicks games never failed to be good.
I watched that injury live on MSG cable. It was a game against the Kansas City Kings. My old man and I were speechless after watching BK go down with that knee injury. I always thanked my parents for cable TV back in the day. I loved those Knicks teams growing up. It was fun to watch them. Living on LI, it was also possible to watch some Celtics games with a good tuned TV antenna. Or to simply listen to the games over the radio.
Man, I wish him and Ewing played together. That was a legit duo that could've went far in the NBA playoffs.
"Literally"?
my #1 tied favorite male atheltes/jocks ever are + were wilt chamberlain + bill russell
My father's favorite athletes growing up was Marcus Allen and Bernard King. I had to go back and watch this guy when I got to my late teens and 20's. This dude was a beast
mine too! still are...
For a couple of years Bernard was as good as Bird & Dr J. He wasn’t the same after the knee injury, still good but not great. I believe he was the Sporting News MVP in 1984.
He was still a beast after the knee injury dude he was a All-Star at 34 years old with the bullets
The best turnaround jumper in NBA history.
Elvin hayes, invented turnaround jump shot
Just my opinion.
It was the best and fastest catch and turnaround.
His baseline game was almost unstoppable.
@@ssviking81 ... Yes it was.
I use to watch Bernard King play in Madison Square Garden & what a thrill it was to watch him score effortlessly. He was just unstoppable & a great team leader. One of greatest all time scorer.
Bernard King's release on the shot was a thing of beauty--fluid and lightening quick. When he got on a roll he was absolutely unstoppable!! (Any time he stepped on the floor he was a threat to go off and bust 50 on you!!)
You knew where he was going you knew when he was gonna get there but you can't stop him 🏀 Cedric Maxwell of the Boston Celtics on Bernard King 👑
I always have B. King on the Knicks as my small forward on every NBA2K and Live game. He was undeniably great.
Love Red Auerbach wearing his Celtics warm up. The man could coach. Now that's an old school legend. About Bernard King, I so admired that guy. I'm so glad he's finally recognized as a Hall of Fame basketball player. He was almost forgotten, but I'm glad he's officially recognized as one of the all time basketball greats.
Second to nun what a talent
Most underated of players ....Best forward in the nba for 5 years ..
Owned the nba. Gave machiel jordan a whipping
not good enuff for the warriors, i guess (disgruntled warriors fan here...
a determination unparalleled a talent unrelenting, a Hall of Famer from Brooklyn, New York
Bernard King Truly Unstoppable...so honored to have literally witnessed those games in the 80's...especially those when he would destroy my Pistons😁...I Absolutely Loved Bernard King's Game it was " Next Level "
Of bernard never got injured, he would've been widely known as the greatest scorer ever. Who
Scored 42.8 points on 60% shooting?
Bernard King was an all time great... I attended that game when he beat my beloved Detroit Pistons
The single greatest and most unstoppable offensive force in NBA history, bar none.
Kareem Abdul Jabbar holds that distinction!
To bad he was a convicted rapist and drug addict who beat his wife, huh?
Kareem was shutdown down a whole quarter by Old Wilt.
Shot blocked atleast 5 times and ball stolen fron Kareem atleast 4 times.
It made Kareem look like a Highschooler Baller temporarily.
@@faealldayable jealous white boy
I met Bernard recently, very friendly guy. One of the best players ever!
Lucky Bernard king used to owned nba basketball in early 1980s
Bernard King one of the greatest big.men of his time
Bernard King: True definition of a "walking bucket."
@MAN UTD And, what's your point?
Saw him withGSW I agree he was a scoring machine .. he could make it on the way up or coming down.
My hero as a 13 yr old in NYC.
Glad to have witnessed his career. His prime was short but magnificent. For those that didn't get a chance to see it, you missed out on all time greatness. My all time great team of hurt players. Bill Walton, Bernard King, Grant Hill, Andrew Toney, Penny Hardaway.
I watched Bernie play in the '80s like it was a religion. He was and is a badass! And I'm from Tucson, Arizona. That quick release and DUNK was uncanny! I watched WWOR on cable to watch the Knicks and Bernie!
Thank you for posting. Watching Bernard King again took me back to the 1980's when the Knickerbockers would make the playoffs and win one series then go down in the next series against superior foes. However, they fought and you were proud to call yourself a Knicks' fan.
Those are true words!!!!!
I'm a 80's baby. My dad made me watch Bernard King play, especially shoot!
#LEGEND🏀
Before the knee injury I thought he was the best player remembered James Worthy all over him and it didn't matter he was all net from all over the court and Worthy was stuck to him like glue. Amazing never understood why he didn't get the recognition he deserved.
His teams weren't that good. He was the reason those teams were competitive.
Glad I can say I saw King play 3 times!🦾🦾🦾
Bernard King 👑 and inspiration to me.He overcame his circumstances to excel.
The Knicks should have been patient with King 👑 him Ewing, Starks and the rest of the squad would’ve been TUFF 💯
My favorite player, a true gentleman that played with heart and determination every time he stepped on the hardwood !
Definitely, will be included in the NEXT LIST of NBA's GREATEST OF ALL TIME!!
The best small forward post player, his turn around jump shot on the baseline was unstoppable
It was beautiful, didn’t matter who guarded him, it was automatic.
kawhi leonard
Bernard king gave Larry bird private lessons
@@abhi2013royK Leonard could not stop Bernard King,maybe contain to 26 points, but no one could stop BK.
He has a great speaking voice.
BK was virtually unstoppable, especially on that turn around jumper. Once he began his turn...it was over!
BERNARD KING is the quintessential NBA professional.
Best player I ever saw. He was unstoppable, watching him on the fast break and on the low post was a thing of beauty. Nobody did it better. If I had to pick one player in nba history to pick to give the ball to when you needed a score, he would be it, no better scorer in the history of the league.
I don’t know why Bernard kings not mentioned more when they talk about the All Time greats,Bernard King was a baaaaaad man!!!!! He would score Double nickels 55 points with broken fingers he was a great player a hall of famer!!!!!!
It's just the injury destroyed his prime. If he stayed healthy we'd be talking about him with Magic and Larry.
One of my favorite Knicks, was a pleasure watching him play
Bernard King is a terrific NBA player. The New York Knicks should have retired his uniform #30. And he overcame the battle of booze.
Ny Knicks should have retired his 30 jersey because he was a dominant scoring machine.he carried 84 NY Knicks team to game 7 eastern conference semifinals vs Boston Celtics
Very under rated player! 💪🏾👑
My favorite Knicks player of all-time. Then there’s Patrick Ewing. A lot of great memories growing up watching Bernard inside the garden and Ewing
as well.... 80s and 90s basketball the best.
amen
70's the best, because we won 2 championship and had the greatest Knick team til this day.Clyde, Wilt, Dave, Bill, Dick,Cazzie Jerry, phil, and Earl among others made those teams great.,
Possibly the greatest player in SEC history with Maravich being his only competition . I have never seen a more relentless player . Bernard King was the SEC player of the year three years in a row . He led the league in rebounding all three years and led the league in scoring 2 of the three years finishing 2nd one year by 2 percentage points to teammate Ernie Grunfeld . The thing about King was he was a great team player . He didn't take bad shots . He shot in the upper 50 percent He went to NBA after 3 years at Tennessee and some of the greatest players in NBA history simply could not guard him . Julius Irving said King was the most difficult player he ever faced . He wasn't fancy or flashy just efficient . What a Great Player he was .
From a purely scoring standpoint..... probably the most unstoppable 3 ever , Bird and LeBron included
Keith Falconer Iceman too
@@imperiousrex1873 don't forget melo and durant
Keith Falconer : See my list!
Greatest scorers ever under 7-0 (no particular order):
Michael Jordan
Kobe Bryant
Larry Bird
Alex English
Len Bias
A.I.
Stephon Marbury (hella creative!)
Derrick Rose
Steve Francis
Penny Hardaway
Tracy McGrady
Grant Hill
Scottie Pippen
Isaiah Thomas
Dwayne “Pearl” Washington
Mahmoud Abdul Rauf
LeBron James
Michael Ray Richardson
Isiah Thomas (Detroit)
Dr. J
George Gervin
“Pistol” Pete Maravich
Earl “the Pearl” Monroe
Bernard King
UNSTOPPABLE SCORERS!!!
Note: Reggie Miller was a pure shooter, not a “pure scorer,” likewise with guys like Dirk Nowitzki, Tom Chambers, and Kiki Vandeweigh.
The guys I listed above could score at will; if they weren’t scoring they were getting teammates involved.
Ramone DeCurta, Elgin Baylor, Rick Barry, Jerry West
Bernard had the perfect last name,special player
he was one of my favorite players. His name is not mentioned often enough when people are discussing the greats, and comparing modern to earlier players
To say I love that man is an understatement. He carried NYC on his back for a few miraculous years.
I always loved to listen to him speak as well, what a well spoken man whom you'd never expect to be so damn tough!
It was an honor to watch Bernard King.
1984 NBA 1st round playoffs against Detroit. Bernard the King smokes Isaiah and the bad boys all by himself. Most underrated playoff performance by the most underrated player in NBA history PERIOD !
One of the greatest all time
I love Bernard!
i leaned so much from watching him in 8th grade i study him from spinning moves to turn around to shoulders on the spin and it fixed my shot i tape my fingers up, king all day and not one player in history of basketball not one player was a better scorer than King.
Bernard King was the most intense player ever. I remember him getting his shot blocked and instead of being embarrassed by it he concentrated on getting the ball back and scoring. He was the greatest player ever to play at Tennessee and he was treated badly by local police and some racist boosters and was arrested for vagrantcy and if I ever got the chance to talk to him I would apologise to him for the way he was treated while he was here. The same people that caused him so much trouble cheered him on the basketball court and that is a disgrace. I can't help but feel that was the start of his personal problems that he had at the beginning and I admire him for overcoming all of that.
Great post, Mr. Henry!
Tennessee fans worshipped Bernard King. When he played his last game at Stokely no Tennessee athlete ever received an ovation like he did. It seemed to go on forever. He is still my favorite player of all time. He had some problems off court because he liked to drink and do cocaine and he got into some trouble. The charges of racism are nonsense, but like a lot of blacks he feels that his problems were because he was black.
@@jerryupchurch1131 okkk
@@jerryupchurch1131Racism still exist until this day, and if you think Bernard was not shown racism, you might be a racist yourself. I'm sure this story is not made up, when your young, a lot of mistakes are made. As you grow, and if you are willing to learn from you mistakes you can really grow up and see the world for what it is. Question if your best friend a racist, are you a racist also.
Bernard King still can dominate & school the nba's today
Rnld Lee : You mean “could/would have.” I agree 100%. That isn’t saying much because, while the average player is a better athlete than the average player of the past, the players aren’t nearly as good basketball-wise.
Even LeBron has some of the worst footwork I have ever seen on any player at any level. He gets over because he is supremely athletic and very coordinated, especially in his upper body.
Their fundamentals suck, they aren’t nearly as creative, and they don’t play defense.
The league is now watered down and weakened because of those things, and many top scorers from today would suffer in a league with the likes of Jordan, Pippen, Rodman, GP, Mookie Blaylock, Jason Kidd, Charles Oakley, Anthony Mason, and Mugsy Bogues guarding them.
Giannis, K.L. and A.D. wouldn’t know what to do with Rodman or Oakley on their asses.
Ramone DeCurta you must be old af every old head says this awful ignorant argument based just on opinion literally no stats or facts at all lmao obsessed with the past 😂
Benard King played in a tougher era and even led the NBA 1 season in scoring and you don't think he can dominant ?
Leading the NBA in scoring is extremely hard to do.
@@josh8837 😆
@@DeCurtaRican Today athletes are average players
We don't know about that LeBron dude, this is the ORIGINAL true King right here! #BKAllDay
Too bad he was a drug addict who beat his wife and was a convicted rapist?
@@faealldayableI'm sure you have no sin at all. You are the worst kind of person, may God help you.
The “Curse of Knicks” started when the Knicks traded Bernard King. I need find myself a new team, sick of being disappointed every year.
I hope your Knicks can bring back the magic again. Not so long ago, they were only behind the Bulls as the best team of the East.
Alex actually it started when Willis traded Clyde to freaking CLEVELAND for Jim CLeamons. Reed was the coach and didn't feel he could coach Clyde after playing with him,.
LEGENDARY..His game was SHOCKING at times..
Soooooo underrated! Scoring machine!!!!!!
Publicity wise, he is. His peers knew though. Believe me, they knew.
Before Jordan there was KING!!
Yes! At the playgrounds you make a quick turnaround shot people would call you king. His injury and return is in that gale sayers class in football.
No Dr J.
@@francismuiruri9064 ❤ dr.j he was more of a 1970s basketball 🏀 legend & early 1980s
Dr j was first though
@@benjisilva2196 doc couldn't score as effortlessly as the King
When healthy, that's the word, UNSTOPPABLE. Silky smooth. Never saw another like him that could be going full steam and go absolutely straight vertical as the defender's "drift" created the space for the shot. Listening to his audiobook. He narrates it. Love his honesty.
My all time favorite with John Havlicek only because he was a Buckeye BK was unreal best shooter I have ever seen and his return from injuries was one of the greatest comebacks ever (#30) should be retired by the Knicks He finally got redeemed with the HOF I am so glad he got to see this and get the props he so greatly deserves a class act and without the two and a half lost seasons from injuries he would have scored. 5-6000 more points
Well spoken, no thuggery, no padding stats, no flopping, no holding teams hostage and deck stacking. Bernard King was a better player and better man, than 95% of today’s players.
THUGS can also be well spoken
I watched and remember his back-to-back 50-point games. Man, I was not surprised!
I have long said I feel Jordan is the greatest largely because he accomplished what he did with less help than some other greats. Nonetheless, Bernard had even less help than Jordan. And no he did not equal Jordan's team success not by a long shot. But he did have even a bigger load to carry and he did pretty damn well offensively. Getting those very very ordinary, at best, Knicks teams to the playoffs. And they gave the powerful Celtics a good run that one year to seven games.
First big mistake the nix made during the Ewing era was not signing Bernard. Both played for nix Ewing's rookie year but were never on the court together
Second mistake trading Mark Jackson their floor leader.
An amazing athlete and an amazing person. Would be a dream to shake his hand some day.
People don't talk enough about Bernard King and Michael Ray Richardson.
I like Bernard’s voice. Soft spoken but the message gets across.
Great player,Great story.👍👍
I wish I was Old enough wits the greats play ‼️
Nard was one of the most unstoppable players to ever play the game against anyone at anytime anywhere on anybody, WORD
That's the Truth,anyone at anytime, anywhere. Word 💯
Great highlights. Most of BKs shots as I recall were nothing but the bottom of the net indicating a pure shooter whereas Isaiah Thomas' baskets seemed to get all the rim the law would allow. The NBA was so competitive with some really good teams in the Eastern Conference back then.
He has a great relationship with his daughter I respect that. I can't even imagine having a daughter like Kobe. She would play Basketball not Box like me. If I have kids
Great story! Awesome player. Grew up in CT, watched him play for the knicks with my grandfather. I played small forward, practiced his post moves, that turn around was deadly. I remember when he came back after the injury, I was so excited to see him play again. Memory lane is a mofo
Being a Celtics fan, I clearly remember Cedric Maxwell guaranteeing that Bernard wouldn't get fourty against them in the playoffs and King lit them up just like he had done against everyone else. One of the great players that didn't win a title doesn't take away the fact that in his prime, Bernard was KING!
Benard king Brooklyn legend
One of the top players the Knicks ever had.
Total respect for this dude. Man could he ball!!! Playing with the flu 2 bad fingers and still dominated
You forgot the part where he was a convicted rapist and drug addict and a man who beat his wife?
@@faealldayableand you have no sin I'm sure. Your are the worst kind of person. May Jehovah forgive you, who has probably done worst.
Thanks so much for this! Being an old NYC guy he was our hero! We all tried to play like BK!
DJ Cerebral mentally tough as steel also!!! Bernard’s guts and heart also just as great as his skills!!!
Bernard King was one of the most unselfish superstars in his day. I remembered watching BK practice on the floor at MSG before a Knicks game. And before leaving the floor, he signed autographs for fans, especially for the kids. I always remembered that.
Thanks a lot for upload ... i just freaked out ... Wow ... he and his brother enormous talents for New Jersey & New York
Bernard King’s game was pure.
The greatest UT player.
thanks for the memories Bernard...I remember John Ward saying "King!..of the Volunteers!..on a big shot...