- Played 14 seasons in the National Basketball Association.
- Finished third in the NBA in scoring during the 1990-1991 season (28.4 points per game) and was returned to the All-Star game as a starter after a seven year absence.
- Led the NBA in scoring with 32.9 points per game during the 1984-1985 season.
- Starred for the University of Tennessee in college.
- Suffered career-threatening knee injury during 1984-1985 season and missed 103 games over the next two seasons.
- Was the seventh pick in the 1977 NBA draft by the New York Nets.
- Attended Fort Hamilton High School in Brooklyn, NY.
- Inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2013.
- Son of Thomas King, and Thelma Brown King.
- Brother of Albert King, and Thomas King, Jr.
- Has one daughter: Amina King (b. 1998).
- Inducted into Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame in 2007.
- Inducted into New York City Basketball Hall of Fame in 1994.
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