Remembering beloved Bulls broadcaster Stacey King
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What was Stacey King's impact on Chicago basketball?
Rahimi, Harrison, Groovy. Midday's K-2. On Chicago Sports Radio. One, two, three, four.
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I'm coming, Elizabeth, is funny every time. Stacey King was good every time he opened up a mic. 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 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.
Stacey King was such a gateway into basketball and the way that he became interwoven into not only the identity of the Bulls, but the identity of basketball in Chicago and the city itself, because of the way he talked about the city. You wouldn't know that this is a guy out of the University of Oklahoma, where obviously he was an All-American. And before the Bulls took him sixth overall in the 1989 draft, he was just one of the most famous college basketball players on the planet. But what's remarkable to me is he went from being that role player on a three-peat team, that first three-peat of the Bulls in the 1990s, to having such a larger cultural impact on this city by what he was able to do in that broadcast booth and the way that he became a part of the viewing experience, a part of the way you experience the Bulls, in good times and bad.
In good times, as we heard in the clips that we played earlier, he was in a way the exclamation point on a Bulls broadcast, right? In bad times, he made the Bulls palatable. And that's hard to do sometimes. I mean, this past season was a perfect example, right? And so I think what happened for me personally is it was just so jarring to read the news that he was gone. Because I was thinking, you know, this is a guy who's finally going to get a new administration, a new front office, new coaching staff, and take us through the next phase because he's so synonymous, as we've heard, with the Derrick Rose era of the Bulls. You know? It feels like that was just taken away from us. And the reverence he had for the fan base itself and the way he connected with the fans is the thing that always made me kind of smile thinking about him is that he was the mayor of...
Bulls Chicago, if you will. Kind of was.
How did Stacey King become a beloved figure in sports broadcasting?
He was the mayor. If you walk into the United Center and see Stacey King, you're going to want to talk to him. Even if you don't want a picture, an autograph, whatever, you're still going to be like, oh, man, I love you on the broadcast. Because the man deserved his flowers and got them and gave the fans their flowers for being a part of the whole journey that is Bulls basketball.
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 when stacy king was drafted in 1989 by the chicago bulls they get him sixth and he dropped apparently he should have gone like looking back and remembering he he should have like 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 when the bulls were on the cusp
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What was Stacey King's impact on Chicago basketball?
0:00–3:50
2
How did Stacey King become a beloved figure in sports broadcasting?
3:50–7:01
3
What memorable moments defined Stacey King's broadcasting style?
7:01–7:51
4
How did Stacey King's career evolve from player to broadcaster?
7:51–8:55
5
What personal stories highlight Stacey King's connection with fans?
8:55–9:04
Speakers
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