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2019 Training Camp | Day 3: Bernard King

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In the mid-1980s, there wasn’t a full slate of NBA games scheduled on Christmas Day -- just one. “We were the sole attraction. You knew all your peers and the basketball world was watching,” Bernard King would recall, years after he recorded one of the all-time Christmas Day performances, when he poured in 60 points against the Nets.
Being from Brooklyn, King recalled having goose bumps every time he took the court at the Garden. “Every game at Madison Square Garden was Christmas,” he said. And every time King took the floor, you knew he just might deliver the gift of another offensive performance for the ages.

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#NYK70 | 1984: Bernard King Scores 60 on Christmas Day

In an era of high-scoring forwards, from Larry Bird and Julius Erving to Dominique Wilkins, few players were as prolific at putting the ball in the hoop as Bernard King. In 1985, the future Hall of Famer led all players by averaging 32.9 points per game. But that was the same year that King suffered a devastating knee injury, one that would keep him on the sideline for the entire following season. Miraculously, King made a then-unprecedented recovery, returning to All-Star form during the 1990-’91 season, five years after being told he would never play again.

“My attitude was, I’m from Brooklyn, I grew up on the toughest basketball courts in the world,” King said on the day he was elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame, in 2013. “I knew I would be an All-Star again. And I was.”

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#NYK70 | 1956: Knicks Legend Bernard King is Born in Brooklyn

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This Date in Knicks History: May 7

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This Date in Knicks History: May 4

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This Date in Knicks History: April 22

Bernard King, Herb Williams, and LJ Celebrate Knicks Fans