Point has been made several times by voices louder than mine but I’ve sat through 20 years of people adamantly screaming that they missed physicality in NBA hoops, that the game was too soft, etc. Now we got a bunch of teams playing physical and everyone is still complaining.
Neil Funk remembers Stacey King: "He just loved life. It was amazing to me, we'd run into people on the street or in an arena and he made every one of those people feel like they were the only person in the building.
"They're not going to make another Stacey King."
Stacey King’s bio says it all.
He was all about spreading joy and keeping it light. Someone who constantly reminded us that sports are about having fun above all else.
I said them boys was ass halfway through the season might have watched 25 games last year if I woulda knew that was it for my boy I woulda watched all 82
Stacey King provided the sizzle on the steak of Derrick Rose’s MVP run. Still had his fastball for 15 years afterwards.
After Josh Giddey walked off from half court, King said, “that will be replayed when we’re all gone.”
RIP to one of the best local market commentators ever.
The white whale in our business, is finding an on-air combination that outdistances the sum of its parts.
No better, no truer example of that than Stacey and Adam Amin.
Thinking about Adam, Chuck Swirsky, Bill Wennington and the Bulls family today.
That smile will be missed.
Stacey King will forever be associated with Derrick Rose.
Not as his teammate or coach, but simply as a person giving life to every Derrick Rose highlight.
Cheering like a fan. Like one of us.
The Bulls need to put Stacey King’s name up in the rafters for his broadcasting career. He did for the Bulls what Hawk Harrelson did for the White Sox. Stacey was the greatest Bulls color commentator of all time.