UNSTOPPABLE: BERNARD KING STORY

[@TownsGroup]

Bernard King’s game was pure.

[@DeCurtaRican]

People don't talk enough about Bernard King and Michael Ray Richardson.

[@williamjohn4377]

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.

[@graylonarnwine3261]

If he didnt get hurt top easily

[@ObjectiveEthics]

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.

[@kjski21]

💯💯💯

[@loydkline]

Pre knee surgery Bernard king was unstoppable on the basketball 🏀 court

[@petergoodelle291]

My favorite knick

[@Sean72_]

One of the best basketball players ever!!

[@rice_goat80]

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.

[@Target_Buster]

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.

[@cardphins68]

Thank you for posting this! Bernard King was such a nasty player and it's great to see him not forgotten.

[@felixgonzalez5882]

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 !

[@abrahammitchell5599]

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.

[@andrewczuba498]

what a CLASS ACT ! strength , skill, heart, and dignity ! BK!

[@Kfree67]

My favorite player ever... Simply unstoppable!

[@Lord_of_The_World]

I remember as a teenager I was so heart broken when he got his knee injury.

[@devaughnmorris7315]

Bernard King is the reason why I am still a Knick Fan. Just imagine this man playing in this era.

[@craigdavis5407]

Very Underrated!!!!

[@nyterpfan]

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!!)

[@winst0n888]

The quickness pf his shots were ridiculous.The only NBA game I ever got to attend was in Atlanta.He had a hand injury and his hand was all taped up and I actually thought he was not going to play.I believe he dropped 43 on the hawks.I was like how do you shoot the ball that well with your hand taped up like that.One of the best alltime.

[@louiebrilliantes9680]

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.

[@ErnestPorter-wl1cx]

Bernard King was a Beast. He was unstoppable.

[@smile4u724]

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)

[@ejsbeast]

Underrated player of alltime

[@DeCurtaRican]

EJSBeast : Dennis Johnson, Alex English, Sidney Moncrief, Tom Chambers, Jack Sikma, and Dominique Wilkins were extremely underrated, too.

[@dogemaester6881]

@@DeCurtaRican you can take moncrief and sikma out. sikma if anything is OVER rated. wilkins gets his, dj english chambers yes yes

[@orbonds3603]

Alvin robertson...most underrated of all time! Go bucks

[@gurujaketube]

@@orbonds3603 Go Razorbacks!

[@lloydkline6946]

@@orbonds3603 bernard king, gave machiel jordan a whipping

[@TedAlexandro]

To say I love that man is an understatement. He carried NYC on his back for a few miraculous years.

[@butchkerley]

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 .

[@roberthalfull]

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!

[@johnnyreed8537]

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!

[@79SteelyMatt]

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

[@TimothyZakaria]

Great to watch

[@franklukas4527]

My favorite player, a true gentleman that played with heart and determination every time he stepped on the hardwood !

[@MrAitraining]

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.

[@gullintanni]

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.

[@toddsands6000]

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.

[@KTF0]

Man, I wish him and Ewing played together. That was a legit duo that could've went far in the NBA playoffs.

[@tompaulcampbell]

"Literally"?

[@youtuber3328]

my #1 tied favorite male atheltes/jocks ever are + were wilt chamberlain + bill russell

[@contactpq]

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

[@sicfrynut]

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.

[@vishwas9842]

he deserves more respect and fame than mj tbh. he's such an amazing player. Probably the best NBA has ever seen. RESPECT.

[@franklukas4527]

I loved his play.. the turnaround jumper from the baseline was like no other! First class man and ballplayer.

[@faealldayable]

To bad he was a convicted rapist and a drug addict and a wife beater?

[@Kfree67]

@@faealldayable typical white boy comment

[@Lamar1911]

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 "

[@bipmancini9133]

I wish I was Old enough wits the greats play ‼️

[@michaelnauls6718]

a determination unparalleled a talent unrelenting, a Hall of Famer from Brooklyn, New York

[@carseye1219]

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.

[@JardoniJovonovich]

My hero as a 13 yr old in NYC.

[@toddsands6000]

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.

[@hamptonbrooks7623]

Second to nun what a talent

[@ludvigborga3676]

Greatest Knicks of all time: PG - Walt Frazier SG - Earl Monroe C - Patrick Ewing SF - Bernard King PF - Willis Reed

[@tysoncowan5192]

I grew up reading about legends like Bernard King, Gervin, Clyde Frazier. 10 year old white boy in Salt Lake City, memorizing stats of players I didn't get to watch live, but hanging in conversations with grown men. Mentioning Adrian Dantley side by side with B.King. lol

[@johndaniels2817]

Definitely deserves to be in the hall of fame.

[@frizza241]

LEGENDARY..His game was SHOCKING at times..

[@adon31997]

I'm a 80's baby. My dad made me watch Bernard King play, especially shoot! #LEGEND🏀

[@benjaminmorillo5250]

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

[@ObjectiveEthics]

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.

[@pedrofrancochau2643]

Probably the Greatest 1 on 1 player ever!

[@hilliarddillepree7717]

So true

[@RD22]

Anybody remember the movie Fastbreak ? Or something with Gabe Kaplan.....i think Bernard King was nominated for best supporting actor.

[@rickwpaperworkmakeschildsu4655]

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!

[@elfuertedeleon2114]

Bernard king,,,,,,he was the men,,believe that..

[@stevetalley5800]

Great,great player! Unstoppable!!!

[@wobblertv8083]

Most underated of players ....Best forward in the nba for 5 years ..

[@lloydkline6946]

Owned the nba. Gave machiel jordan a whipping

[@luvlgs1]

not good enuff for the warriors, i guess (disgruntled warriors fan here...

[@aljeffries5541]

I met Bernard recently, very friendly guy. One of the best players ever!

[@loydkline]

Lucky Bernard king used to owned nba basketball in early 1980s

[@Ameerah.G]

He has a great speaking voice.

[@jamesstaubin938]

He is so underated he was incredible scored at will even after 2 knee injuries with the bullets he averaged 29 a game

[@jtoddjb]

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

[@nylesfrench3568]

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.

[@LostBoysBasketball]

That turnaround on the left block was money

[@duskopopov77]

@@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!

[@jingovidal5981]

Bernard is in my top 10

[@TheOlmonroe1]

The best turnaround jumper in NBA history.

[@lloydkline6946]

Elvin hayes, invented turnaround jump shot

[@TheOlmonroe1]

Just my opinion.

[@MrAitraining]

It was the best and fastest catch and turnaround.

[@ssviking81]

His baseline game was almost unstoppable.

[@TheOlmonroe1]

@@ssviking81 ... Yes it was.

[@knaziringram4589]

BK was virtually unstoppable, especially on that turn around jumper. Once he began his turn...it was over!

[@kemtitanproductions8831]

I always have B. King on the Knicks as my small forward on every NBA2K and Live game. He was undeniably great.

[@christianschultz3612]

An amazing athlete and an amazing person. Would be a dream to shake his hand some day.

[@jerryblair2339]

Bernard King one of the greatest big.men of his time

[@allbrown401]

GOAT ,,SALUTE

[@kennethferguson4031]

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.

[@williamwooten2677]

amen

[@victorcox581]

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.,

[@56original]

Bernard King 👑 and inspiration to me.He overcame his circumstances to excel.

[@Perfection212]

Definitely, will be included in the NEXT LIST of NBA's GREATEST OF ALL TIME!!

[@maiden2314]

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.

[@victorcox581]

Those are true words!!!!!

[@JerryFerko]

Great Line .................... Under rated Super Star................ 30 for 30 ......... The Bernie And Ernie Show ............. MUST SEE !...............

[@thomased2094]

A scoring machine

[@andremaldonado6079]

Bernard had the perfect last name,special player

[@hillelhalevi]

My favorite basketball player of all time. The guy was unreal! He carried a team of let's say...not very good players. With a talented team around him, he would have been one of the best ever. No doubt.

[@mfcmfc8483]

Best turnaround jumpshot in the game ever

[@roberthalfull]

I watched and remember his back-to-back 50-point games. Man, I was not surprised!

[@Amick44]

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.

[@marcusking4289]

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

[@FrankJSelkeIV]

mine too! still are...

[@adrianvonquistorp2915]

Thanks a lot for upload ... i just freaked out ... Wow ... he and his brother enormous talents for New Jersey & New York

[@zzzz-ok7733]

Glad I can say I saw King play 3 times!🦾🦾🦾

[@chrisoakley5830]

This guy was a scoring MACHINE!! If you never saw it you just don't know.

[@frizza241]

FACTS. had to grow up during that time to understand.. LEGEND.

[@RoyPage1970]

@@frizza241I would take Bernard King over Kobe Bryant any day

[@tchallabryant1710]

Bernard King was an all time great... I attended that game when he beat my beloved Detroit Pistons

[@GreybeardSD]

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.

[@joelhoward8211]

Greatest Tennessee Vol of all time

[@dennisdewald6729]

🍊🍊

[@DonnyDonowitzzz]

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.

[@zekaierkal9432]

One of my favorite Knicks, was a pleasure watching him play

[@gregorywilliams3620]

The best small forward post player, his turn around jump shot on the baseline was unstoppable

[@DonnyDonowitzzz]

It was beautiful, didn’t matter who guarded him, it was automatic.

[@abhi2013roy]

kawhi leonard

[@loydkline]

Bernard king gave Larry bird private lessons

[@victorcox581]

​@@abhi2013royK Leonard could not stop Bernard King,maybe contain to 26 points, but no one could stop BK.

[@TheIceman101]

Benard King was a King for sure.

[@je9212]

Benard king Brooklyn legend

[@russellgilbert3453]

Bernard King: True definition of a "walking bucket."

[@jonb903]

@MAN UTD And, what's your point?

[@tellthetruthg]

Saw him withGSW I agree he was a scoring machine .. he could make it on the way up or coming down.

[@johnnyp5025]

The single greatest and most unstoppable offensive force in NBA history, bar none.

[@pedrofrancochau2643]

Kareem Abdul Jabbar holds that distinction!

[@faealldayable]

To bad he was a convicted rapist and drug addict who beat his wife, huh?

[@jonny15dk]

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.

[@Kfree67]

@@faealldayable jealous white boy

[@kingsleyjackson8287]

I wish he was healthy enough to play with Ewing for the rest of his career

[@tamaku2903]

They would have won a championship

[@fromphilly2thebury335]

@@tamaku2903 Hell yeah. DAMN the Bulls Knicks rivalry could've been that much greater

[@michaeladderley5180]

Image that....Mark Jackson, A healthy King, Kenny Walker, and Ewing....that's not good....

[@teofemo7000]

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.

[@loydkline]

Bernard king gave Larry bird private lessons on the basketball 🏀 court

[@dab75db]

Very under rated player! 💪🏾👑

[@deejaycerebral]

Thanks so much for this! Being an old NYC guy he was our hero! We all tried to play like BK!

[@joecalhoun5303]

DJ Cerebral mentally tough as steel also!!! Bernard’s guts and heart also just as great as his skills!!!

[@toddsands6000]

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.

[@marcoslaureano5562]

Put it to ou this way - I was a Bulls fan growing up because MJ introduced me to basketball BUT - if those great NY teams of the early 90s would have had Bernard King in his prime on that team - the Bulls would have been in serious trouble. He was THAT great and nearly unstoppable on offense. I remember that game where he pretty much cooked Jordan. He was the man. And dudes just did NOT come back fro his type of injury - not back then. He came back to average what he used to average. The guy is simply a LEGENDARY NBA player who deserves to be in the top 75 all time.

[@victorcox581]

Well said by a BASKETBALL fan, even though a fan of Chicago.

[@eboooo]

I love Bernard!

[@michaelwoodward9894]

Nard was one of the most unstoppable players to ever play the game against anyone at anytime anywhere on anybody, WORD

[@victorcox581]

That's the Truth,anyone at anytime, anywhere. Word 💯

[@thenobleone-3384]

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

[@JerryFerko]

I Hope Some Of The Guys Playing Today ................. Know Who This Guy Is ................ Every Athlete ...In Every Sport ............ Should See This Video .

[@BlackMamba-hq7ri]

One of the greatest all time

[@tonyramos1936]

Soooooo underrated! Scoring machine!!!!!!

[@Amick44]

Publicity wise, he is. His peers knew though. Believe me, they knew.

[@whitneymacdonald4396]

Awesome story. Thanks for posting. I was a Celtics fan back then and always had such respect for Bernard King. He was the Knicks. What he did to come back and how good he was at the end was awe inspiring. That is an impressive man.

[@johnwilliams-bey8707]

I had never seen anything like him. He was a machine unstoppable

[@ronaldlee7566]

Bernard King still can dominate & school the nba's today

[@DeCurtaRican]

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.

[@josh8837]

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 😂

[@jonny15dk]

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.

[@louisstipe7925]

@@josh8837 😆

[@melvynsngltn27]

@@DeCurtaRican Today athletes are average players

[@bangbang7519]

I like Bernard’s voice. Soft spoken but the message gets across.

[@jlsnn9]

Of bernard never got injured, he would've been widely known as the greatest scorer ever. Who Scored 42.8 points on 60% shooting?

[@ewoe21]

It was an honor to watch Bernard King.

[@Uberstrib]

Before Jordan there was KING!!

[@harrishoward5924]

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.

[@francismuiruri9064]

No Dr J.

[@lloydkline6946]

@@francismuiruri9064 ❤ dr.j he was more of a 1970s basketball 🏀 legend & early 1980s

[@benjisilva2196]

Dr j was first though

[@Uberstrib]

@@benjisilva2196 doc couldn't score as effortlessly as the King

[@davidmeza3157]

What an inspirational story!