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Chapter 1: 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.
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Chapter 2: 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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Chapter 3: What personal memories does Leila share about working with Stacey King?
We know, especially this past season, a lot of people tuned in just to watch Stacey and Adam Amin just get to chop it up. And I know people joke about the Luke Cornett. I don't know how long it is, and I know we're up against a break, Tyler. Can you tell me how long the clip is? It's 49 seconds. Oh, we got time. We do. But the beauty of this is not even...
This started because Daniel Gafford, who ultimately ended up being a starting five on an NBA finals team, wasn't getting as many minutes as Luke Cornett, who is a part of the Spurs, an NBA finals team now. But at the time, they were both on the Bulls. We were trying to figure out why Luke Cornett was getting more minutes than Daniel Gafford.
And this is the report that happened when I was reporting in the 2019 season. We talked about that half that Luke Fournette had is wearing out in the third quarter. And believe it or not, Jim Boylan said that he reminds him of Robert Horry. That was something that Boylan brought up yesterday at practice, Neal and Stacey. Of course, Boylan spent time as an assistant with the Rockets.
And he said Horry was one of the first guys who could win protected a high level and make threes. We all know Robert Horry could shoot a three. Luke Cornett was one, made three tonight, but that's the idea, he said. Luke Cornett has rib protection, blocked shots, and he liked how he guarded Giannis and cut a kufo in the first half against the box gentleman.
What? Neil Funk, Stacey King. Oh, my goodness. Robert Ory? Robert Ory was a great two-way player. One rings, too. Oh, my goodness.
I did not expect Robert Worre to have heard about that. That took on a life of its own. But Stacey was all of us in that moment. All of us.
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Chapter 4: How did Stacey King connect with Bulls fans?
And that's just the kind of teammate he was. He wouldn't leave you hanging. And as he said on this station, and it was many years ago in an interview that we did with Stacey. You heard Neil Funk there. He spoke yesterday in the tribute on CHSN. But Stacey said, Neil, just let me be myself. And he got to entertain and be himself and say all the famous lines that we think of. The G stands for gets.
Did you not get the memo? Cookies. He made the game so fun for all of us.
Cookies.
He was every bit himself. The Stacey that you saw is the Stacey that we knew. And he... This just is not fair.
312 with the text I think will be highly relatable in this moment. As one who normally is the strong one in moments of loss, I think as a whole, we've all had to just sit in this moment of grief. There's no shaking this off.
And also, Stacy had come from, and we had fun with this. We don't have time to play it. Maybe later. But, you know, he joked about the L.A. Dodgers hat being the Lawton area. We had fun with that. Lawton, Oklahoma. There's a huge part of a group of people where I come from who know Stacy for playing for the late, great Billy Tubbs at OU and being a part of an excellent Oklahoma team.
Interestingly enough, Dennis Rodman also played in Southern Oklahoma at Southeast Oklahoma State. And it's just amazing, you know, those those guys put a put a region of basketball on the map at the time that I think got a lot of shine, but beloved everywhere he went. And it's just incredibly, incredibly cruel that he is gone.
Adam Amin is joining us in studio next to talk about his broadcast partner's legacy.
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