Matt Spiegel

He was great every time you talked to him in person.

And I know plenty of fans have plenty of stories and have had great interactions with the one and only Stacey King, who died yesterday.

We lost Stacey King yesterday.

yesterday at the age of 59, 1967 to 2026, a stunner for everybody.

And one of those that when you read it, you're checking four or five times and hoping that it's just bogus news and it's one of those fake deaths out there.

And it's just, it's an absolute stunner.

And as I said earlier, Marshall, in transition, there are some people that

that are so alive and so full of life and so vibrant and all of that, that you don't actually consider the possibility that somebody like that would cease to exist, that that person would die because they are life.

They embody that, and that's what Stacey King did.

Absolutely.

Everybody, we all have our own relationship with Stacey King, just as broadcasters, inevitably being around each other at different times.

And I've known Stacey King for a long time, but we didn't really know each other.

Like he may have known who I was just from being around here as long as I have been.

But of course, I always knew who Stacey King was starting when he was drafted.

By the way, I could not,

When Stacey King was drafted in 1989 by the Chicago Bulls, they get him sixth, and he dropped.

Apparently, he should have gone looking back and remembering.

At the time, he was thought of even more highly, and a lot of people thought he was going to be drafted in the first three picks, but the Bulls got him.

In 1989, when the Bulls were on the cusp, they had a made team right there.

That is obviously right before they started their real winning, so it felt really good.