The man had 60 without taking 1 3 pointer. Crazy!!

he is the most efficient turn around shooter, damn

Such a smooth jump shot. And he puts the ball above his head before the release, really hard to block that!

He was a scoring machine. He was totally unstoppable. I wish he didn't blow out his knee.

As great of a scoring machine as there has ever been in the game.truly unguardable

One of the best scorers ever. He lost a full season with a bad knee injury in 85-86 I believe, and was out a season before the 93 season until his knees couldn't hold up. Even with the injury and missed time he's top 20 scoring all time.

Love this camera angle, makes it look like you’re actually In the stands

It's curious. Such a small thing that no one notices but it makes all the difference. No one realizes how difficult that turn around jump shot is and unlike most people that have a turn around jumper the range of motion on Bernard's jumper is so minimal. The only guy that I know of that had the same turn around was Elvin Hayes. One pivot in which he doesn't need a great deal of space and he was never more than fifteen feet away from the basket which means almost none of the times King got the ball were clear outs. In another words, unlike Carmelo, King didn't catch the ball, clear out the entire strong side and held the ball long enough for his teammates to clear insuring a shot late in the shot clock, the defense having enough time to send a double team and putting the ball on the floor which means... no assist. The touch it takes to shot that shot is unreal. By my count, the Knicks as a team got ten assists on ten of his field goals by King but it's not like he was catching and shooting open uncontested jumpers like a Reggie Miller, Glen Rice or Rip Hamilton... all of them were post ups and all of them were defended. CAN I GET A WITNESS!?!? I usually don't look for co-signers when I post but for the sake of fundamental and efficient basketball, someone tell me they see and appreciate that!

Wow....bernard king and michael ray richardson on the same floor....what history! I loved watching both of these all time greats while growing up. 'Sugar' scored 36 in this epic battle. No 3 pointers....just back to the basket, work creation from king! I love watching him and kevin durant in the small forward category.

Name Me one Guy that can score 25ppg with that repertoire of shots in the NBA now and I MIGHT consider watching again. He 22/26 from the FT Line that game as well. You'll never get to the line like that hoisting grenades from 35 ft away.

Bernard King -- poetry in motion. I really miss this era of the NBA. Driving to the hoop and the 15 footer.

He was so great at drawing fouls, too.

I always liked this camera angle.

Dude had the nastiest baseline jumper I've ever seen. Great mid range game all the way

I had no idea King could pass like that... Damn

I met Bernard King today in Alpharetta or Johns Creek GA really nice guy had no clue how good he was Hall of Famer!!

unlike Melo's 62, Kind didn't take a 3 point shot and passed the ball to his teammates... Unbelievable..

The lost art of feeding the post. King was such an efficient scorer.

40 points in the first half thats amazing

Tennessee will always love Bernard King!

Wow, the guy is on fire and still makes the right passes. Impressive performance

alot of kids today dont realize how good these current coaches/gm were when they played. guys like ainge, bird, mchale, kerr, hornacek, baylor, jerry west, doc rivers, jason kidd, fisher and a bunch of others im missing

incredible game footage

Such a tremendously great player, the knee engery derailed his Hall of Frame career and status. He was unstoppable in most situations.

Bernard king: one word: COLDBLOODED!!!!!!!

And I´m supposed to be in absolute awe of Lebron´s 10-26 shooting performance in yesterday´s Christmas game.

insane mid range game, not much you can fo against that

i love the camera angle in this game~

Bernard belongs in the Hall of Fame......

Bernard King is a hall of famer

That turnaround shot from the baseline is money.

Awesome upload! 17 yrs old during this time. Huge Knick fan and LOVED Bernard King! really cool seeing this and hearing Jim Karvellas again. Great NBA announcer. Also nice touch in the beginning with a little John Condon doing the public address for the "garden feel"

sometimes i watch King, Dr.J & Elgin Baylor videos. it looks like Mj.. MJ Took some moves i see

I stood at the edge of the tunnel when the Knicks were coming out of the locker room to the court once. I was about 14, 15 at the time (but I was 6 foot then, fully grown). King held up his hand to just high five people nonchalantly as he shuffled by. My memory - again, I was pretty much the size of a man - is that his fingers were about 4 inches longer than mine.

Much Gratitude.

Melo's 62 points game sent me here

One of the GOAT scorers great upload

he is in the hall of fame

Lamar. I love your description of this upload. I am a life long BK fan. And yes you do not have to tell me about this game. And I adore you said that. Any Basketball fan Should know about Bernard. And I am Glad You Do!!!!

Great tribute/film to a great player.

Bernard King, smoothest shot ever, I hope the Knicks find a new King sometime soon.

I wish the NBA still used this camera angle

king was as gifted as they come offensively

The playoff series against Detroit was one for the ages!

So do I. I wish more games were televised at this angle.

HE HAS 8 50+ POINT GAMES TO HIS NAME #underated

And people gettin' hyped up over Lebron's 61-point game against the Bobcats just recently, lol. At least the Nets were actually TRYING to stop King from going off on them in this game. I mean their coach was basically throwing everything but the kitchen sink at him, but it was so futile. King was the most unstoppable offensive force at this time until Jordan finally established himself in the league. Damn tragedy he blew his knee out right near the end of that season because he was playing at a truly elite level for the Knicks. Bianchi should've held onto him after they lucked out with Ewing in the following draft. Even at slightly above half-speed, both him and Ewing together would've been looking at a serious title run or two...

I was unaware of the Indiana game you were talking about. It took me a couple times watching this game to notice that Albert King did not play. Of course, within a year or so of this game Richardson would be banished from the league and Bernard King would wreck his knee and lose two years of his prime and the chance to play with Patrick Ewing.

Good Lord,the defensive rotations in this era were so slow at time. If the Knicks put 3 of their players on the perimeter,he would have had 100 lmao. They wouldn’t be able to pre rotate at that point,but even when they were in the area here,they were extreme ineffective

People don’t realize how sneakily athletic King was. He had hops before he hurt his knee, and had one of the quickest releases I have ever seen.

Great job with the B King post!

Poor Jeff Turner what chance did he have King absolutely torched Bird’s Celtics in the playoffs sometimes doubled and triple teamed Celtics won series but king was all that

No answer for King.He could score a 100.Goat

You had to be around and watch Bernard King play just to know how good he really was even after the injury he made an All-Star game at 34 years old with the bullets

This is never mentioned when talking about great scorers.

I was at this game and Bernard was giving them the business. The Nets slowed him down when they put the 7 ft shot blocker George Johnson on him in the 4th quarter.

It's crazy that the Nets still won this game even when King was killing them

Is just sooo smooth omg

King was a machine gun. Shame that his teammates couldn't hold the lead for him.

excellent shooter

The man isn't even sweating.

I was hoping (sugar) michael ray richardson could've just put up like 35 in this epic battle of 2 guys i enjoyed watching as a youth. King looks more like 6 - 5 then 6 - 7.

Dude had a sick release.

This is a great camera angle

Legend.

I always enjoyed the Bernard vs Bird matchups. I wish he could have avoided injuries to see him play at the level he was capable of. He had a very smooth shot. Similar to Clyde Drexler.

BEAST!

Can you imagine if King and Ewing were perfectly healthy in '86? They likely won't get Jackson due to their improvement but the Oakley - Cartwright trade still happens.

60 pts without making a 3 from a SF. Impressive.

So many fouls drawn by King, and he keeps making those FTs. That makes defenders to throw towel... Great performance. Sadly both franchises had tough season with key performers of the early 1980's injured. Cartwright gone and King missing 27 games, the Knicks were left with decent but unflashy role players. Even Coach Brown has no answer in two-men-out situation.

***** Bernard King did have a Hall of Fame type NBA career, but most of it were covered with what ifs when it came to what could've been had Bernard King not missed '85-'86 to a Torn ACL as well as missing the entire '91-'92 to a knee cartilage removal operation. And nobody (not even yourself or myself) remembers Bernard King playing one season for the Utah Jazz in '79-'80 playing in only 19 games, and not playing up to his All-Star super scoring machine skills, only averaging a shade of 9 points. Why didn't Bernard King top the 10+ PPG threshold for Utah and his short 32-game stint with the New Jersey Nets in '92-'93?

That was a man's 60. No 5/20 3pts shooting here.

I didn’t see any three point shots. It’s like they were ignoring it completely. Baseline jumpers and driving to the basket with bad knees.

Truly the king-not bad in college either.june2020.

I just noticed something. Bernard went for sixty in this game. Micheal Ray Richardson went for his career high thirty six. Everyone knew of that. Bernard's little Brother Albert didn't play in this game.

My Favorite Knicks

Greatest pure scorer in NBA history. None better, not even Jordan, Kobe or Oscar.

My GOAT

Quickest release of the ball ever

How many rings do Ewing and King win if they play together?

Greatest Tennessee Vol of all time

4:10 check this out!!!

The fact that Carmelo was voted into the 75 players all time list and Bernard King wasnt is an absolute travesty

If he hadn't gotten injured, if he had stayed around for Ewing, IF IF IF. What might have been

I'll take serious for $200 Alex. The look on his face at the line; ouch

This the 9 spots he talking about

amazing how the nets chose not to double him

A beast

The precursor to Mello. He got assists though.

"Hello, Goodbye

However, the Nets had lost even more yet landed .500plus record thanks to Williams and MR. Birdsong, A.King, O'Koren, "Chocolate Thunder," and Cook missed sizable amount of games that season. It's painful to hear the analyzers talking of the painful knee of Birdsong... Tough fate (rather than luck) on Christmas for the Nets.

That's a whole lotta foul shots.

He helped take down the team that brought him into the league.

I noticed he juke defenders with his dribble then shoot 👍🏽

Bernard was a master from 8ft out on the left.

b king was out there getting buckets!

Epic Epic Epic

great

For some reason often overlook should have made top 50 and definitely should have made top 75 insanity that he didn’t make either could give anybody the business

This is obviously before Bernard King broke his leg during the 1985 season. Bernard King to me was a better version of Dominique Wilkins, someone who was a great all around scorer, but with more of an all around game.