Hooped Up

Well it’s about flippin’ time. After decades of being just a dubious omission. Prolific scorer Bernard King was finally elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame to join the elite club he should have been a part of long time ago.

“I’d love to say its a dream come true but you can’t dream of this,”

King played 14 seasons with the New Jersey Nets, Utah Jazz, Golden State Warriors, New York Knicks and the Washington Bullets. Finishing his stellar career with 19,655 points in 874 games, for an average of 22.5 points per game.

H/N NY Daily News

Lifetime Knicks fan Spike Lee stars and directs in his personal recount of the time Bernard King scored 60 points on Christmas Day against the visiting New Jersey Nets in 1984. While “Get Up Stand Up” by Public Enemy from their “Most of My Heroes STILL Don’t Appear on NO Stamp” album plays in the background. Titled “The King of New York“, see why Carmelo Anthony draws comparisons to the great Bernard King decades later.

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