Bernard King's first college game. Who remembers? Where were you?

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Dumbledorange said:
We nicknamed him "Barnyard" due to his proclivity for acting like an animal and stealing TV sets. Or was it stereos? Or both?
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Both as I recall. He also got picked up for lurking in stairwells. I think he “borrowed “ a car every now and again and drove down the Pike.
 
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beamerman said:
Both as I recall. He also got picked up for lurking in stairwells. I think he “borrowed “ a car every now and again and drove down the Pike.
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I think he was picked up twice in Knoxville. Once by UTPD when wheeling the TV/VCR out of Stokely and a 2nd time by KPD in a West Knoxville apartment complex when he was trying to hide from them in the breezeway. The latter was a substance abuse issue. I believe the charge was for possession of cocaine, not for "lurking". I have no idea what you're insinuating with the automobiles on Kingston Pike comment. Rice Oldsmobile was on Kingston Pike and was pretty generous making rides available to UT athletics.
 
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Good to hear the announcer in the game last night give recognition to King and Grunfeld near the end of the game. Also Clark Kellogg was on the Dan Patrick show Friday and Dan asked Clark of Magic, Bird, Jordan who was the most difficult to guard. And he answered "Bernard King". Then they spent a few minutes talking about Kings incredibly quick and accurate shot, and his focus.
 
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1974Vol said:


Earnie Bernie show at its best!
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Ray Mears. . . the first showman Coach. It was quite the event! I saw UT vs. St. John's at Stokely, Dec. 18, 1976. Dad took my brother and I to Knoxville to buy my mother one of the new fangled microwave ovens (called a RadarRange by Amana). It was heave and he needed the strength to load it in the car. He took us to the game to say thanks. What a show. I got to meet John Ward for the fist time, got his autograph, etc. Good days.
 
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ClockworkOrange said:
A jaw-dropping performance against Pearl's old team, Wisconsin-Milwaukee, in November 1974.

King poured in 42 points. I listened to it with my dad in the front seat of a Buick that was about 20 feet long parked in my granddaddy's gravel drive in Collierville, Tennessee. For some reason we always got much better reception out in the driveway than indoors. Talk about instant impact! I knew we were in for an unprecedented thrill ride from that moment on.
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I’ll never ever forget the words of the GREAT John Ward when King went to the bench with about 7 minutes to go in that Milwaukee game. ”The freshman from Brooklyn, NY, leaves the game with 42 points and 7 rebounds. Ladies and gentlemen, buy a ticket!”

I was listening on the radio and remember like it happened yesterday.
 
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I was thinking he went 21 for 22 for 42 points.

Realize now how cloudy your memory becomes after almost 50 years.


But he had quickest release on a 6-8- foot baseline jumper I'm ever seen by a Vol.
 
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As a kid growing up in Jersey, college sports were really non existent, so when I arrived at UT in the Fall of 1975, what a treat it was to learn about Ernie & Bernie! Went to probably every one of their games and of course all UT football games over the next four years, so that might help explain my very strong 2.37 graduating GPA!!
 
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Volador said:
As a kid growing up in Jersey, college sports were really non existent, so when I arrived at UT in the Fall of 1975, what a treat it was to learn about Ernie & Bernie! Went to probably every one of their games and of course all UT football games over the next four years, so that might help explain my very strong 2.37 graduating GPA!!
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There is a word for that.....graduate!!
 
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ClockworkOrange said:
A jaw-dropping performance against Pearl's old team, Wisconsin-Milwaukee, in November 1974.

King poured in 42 points. I listened to it with my dad in the front seat of a Buick that was about 20 feet long parked in my granddaddy's gravel drive in Collierville, Tennessee. For some reason we always got much better reception out in the driveway than indoors. Talk about instant impact! I knew we were in for an unprecedented thrill ride from that moment on.
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I listened in the car too with cousins who were rabid fans. I was eight. It was a big era for Memphis and UT, and listened to both. How old were you?
 
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Jax_Vol said:
Wow...great memory! I will take your word....do remember that he had one of those games.

Larry Bird had one against Depaul in the NCAA semi-finals in either 1978 or 1980.
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I remember one of his early TV games at Georgia on TVS, with Tom Hammond and Joe Dean on the broadcast. He had 42 with about 5 min to go when Mears took him out

Edit: That was a year before they wore the powder blue Chuck's with their orange on road games
 
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I was at the game. I never missed a home game as I lived on campus fall of '74 to spring 80. I may have seen the game with a cast on my leg (acl from intramural roundball).
 
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I was at the game, King introduced the SEC to the Brooklyn notion of baggy shorts, the days of "trunks" were numbered, the fellow on the end of the row in section A, well into the pint of Makers, was concerned the university hadn't found Bernard King a pair of pants that fit. It was a memorable night in the old barn and laid the foundation what would become Tennessee's modern basketball history.
 
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TartanTurff said:
I was at the game, King introduced the SEC to the Brooklyn notion of baggy shorts, the days of "trunks" were numbered, the fellow on the end of the row in section A, well into the pint of Makers, was concerned the university hadn't found Bernard King a pair of pants that fit. It was a memorable night in the old barn and laid the foundation what would become Tennessee's modern basketball history.
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It was a shame the NCAA was an extremely limited tournament with not necessarily the best 32 teams. Two bids for about 5 leagues and the rest were mid major leagues and some worthy independents. The NIT was still a really good tournament then, but it had lost a little luster when the NCAA expanded to 32 teams. Not long before that it was as prestigious as the NCAA tournament
 
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BernardKingGOAT said:
It was a shame the NCAA was an extremely limited tournament with not necessarily the best 32 teams. Two bids for about 5 leagues and the rest were mid major leagues and some worthy independents. The NIT was still a really good tournament then, but it had lost a little luster when the NCAA expanded to 32 teams. Not long before that it was as prestigious as the NCAA tournament
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Minus the injures King could the Goat, I’ve never watched anybody better.
 
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I had learned to go potty all by myselfs! Thought it was way more impressive than what that man was doing on the screen. 😏
 
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I was at what I think was his first SEC game vs Auburn. Auburn had a freshman named Mike Mitchell who I think was higher rated than Bernard who proceeded to destroy Mitchell immediately. Amazing to see King‘s quick release and domination over whoever had the misfortune to guard him.
 
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