Leila Rahimi shares her Stacey King memories
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What are Leila Rahimi's initial thoughts on Stacey King's passing?
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The G stands for Gets, if you don't know. Man, it is hard to believe. It's really hard to believe that Stacey King is no longer with us. This is Rahimi Harrison-Grody on 104.3 The Score. And I was out yesterday. And on Sunday, I got the news within the 12 o'clock hour, just like everybody else did. And I... was just absolutely shocked. I was as gutted as I was shocked to see that Stacey King passed away at the age of 59. It's just unbelievable. The longtime Chicago Bull and also Bulls analyst and a colleague of mine who I just absolutely loved working with any single time I was part of the Bulls broadcast or even watching, even watching the Bulls broadcast One of my favorite parts about working in sports here in town, in Chicago, is you may not always agree with what I say.
I get that. But we know who you are. The community is established here. Where every Bulls fan feels like you can talk to Stacey King. You can communicate with him. He would take pictures after games. Where... I know which White Sox fans I might hear from after a win or a loss because you know the community. Where I know people who are in the bleachers at Cubs games where you see familiar friends and faces. It's not just about the broadcasters. It's about the fans, too, and the people that you know.
How did Stacey King impact the Chicago Bulls community?
Even the Bears fans groups, you know, sitting in a stadium that fits over 60,000 people. One of the best parts has been getting to know all the fans and just the full, complete... experience that is that is covering sports and being a part of the sports community which is really what it is in this town and i i said on saturday stacy king was such a joy to work with or sunday to learn the game from and to talk to but you know that you know that because you watched the games and you saw the exact same version of stacy that we got to experience off the mic he was like that in every broadcast And to have to write that in past tense is something that I still don't fully comprehend. And I think it's going to take a lot of us a very long time to be able to do so.
He was so good at teaching the game too. We're so lucky. And the analysts that we have who are somehow as brilliantly entertaining as they are good teachers. And Stacey is one of those. It's just such a loss. And I don't even know how to completely put it into words like this.
I think that's okay because I think The Chicago Bulls fan base, the city of Chicago, those who followed him as a player, those who followed him as a young rookie back in 1989, and those who saw what he eventually evolved into as a broadcaster. I think a lot of people feel the way that you're describing right now. It becomes, if not indescribable, very much hard to put into words what he meant when Because he was a lot of things to a lot of different people. I mean, we were talking about it yesterday a little bit. You got to understand, there's a generation of Bulls fans who follow the team right now that don't know Stacey King, All-American at Oklahoma, Player of the Year. They don't know him as a player.
And I made the analogy to a lot of people who watch NBA basketball in general. There's a whole generation of people who don't understand how good Charles Barkley was.
Yeah, they have no idea. They just know him for the personality that he became in their homes every day.
And what he was for me as a broadcaster superseded what he was as a player. Remember, he only played in the NBA for eight years. He played a little bit overseas. He coached a little bit. But for the last 20 years, this man has been the biggest and most consistent voice talking about Bulls basketball.
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