| King in 1993 as a University of Michigan basketball player next to Jalen Rose. | |
| Shooting guard | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Date of birth | August 9, 1973 |
| Place of birth | South Bend, Indiana |
| Nationality | American |
| High school | Plano East Senior |
| Listed height | 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) |
| Listed weight | 210 lb (95 kg) |
| Career information | |
| College | Michigan (1991-1995) |
| NBA Draft | 1995 / Round: 2 / Pick: 6th overall |
| Selected by the Toronto Raptors | |
| Pro career | 1995–2002 |
| Career history | |
| 1995–1996 | Toronto Raptors |
| 1996 | Quad City Thunder (CBA) |
| 1997 | Denver Nuggets |
| 1997–1998 | Quad City Thunder |
| 2001–2002 | Asheville Altitude (NBDL) |
| Career highlights and awards | |
| CBA MVP (1998) | |
| Stats at NBA.com | |
| Medal record | ||
|---|---|---|
| Competitor for United States | ||
| World Championships | ||
| Bronze | 1998 Greece | National team |
Jimmy Hal King (born August 9, 1973) is a retired American professional basketball player in the NBA.
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He was part of the famed University of Michigan Wolverines Fab Five along with Ray Jackson, current NBA player Juwan Howard, and former NBA players Chris Webber and Jalen Rose, that reached the 1992 and 1993 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship games as freshmen and sophomores. He was a starter for teams that reached the tournament four times. Before this, he was a high school All-American basketball player at Plano East Senior High School in Plano, a city north of Dallas, Texas. Although the Fab Five final four appearance have been forfeited,[1] he was not among the players called before the grand jury (Robert Traylor, Webber, Rose, Maurice Taylor, and Louis Bullock)[2] in the University of Michigan basketball scandal and was not found to have received large amounts of money.[3]
King was selected by the Toronto Raptors in the second round (35th overall) of the 1995 NBA Draft and played 62 games for them during the 1995–96 season, averaging 4.5 points, 1.8 rebounds and 1.4 assists per game. On July 24, 1996, before the start of the 1996–97 season, he was traded to the Dallas Mavericks in exchange for Ronald "Popeye" Jones, but King was eventually waived. After playing most of the 1996-97 season with the Quad City Thunder of the CBA, he signed with the Denver Nuggets on a 10-day contract, but participated in only two games for them, tallying six points, two rebounds, two assists and three steals.[4]
King also played a few seasons in Europe and with the Continental Basketball Association (CBA) where he was the 1998 MVP with the Quad City Thunder.[5] He played for the US national team in the 1998 FIBA World Championship, winning the bronze medal.[6] He also played for the Asheville Altitude in the NBDL.
King's last chance to return to the NBA came before the 2000–01 NBA season where King was the final player cut on the defending Eastern Conference champion Indiana Pacers.
In a phone interview on the Jim Rome Show on November 30, 2006, Jimmy stated he was working as a financial advisor for Merrill Lynch on Wall Street. During the 2008–09 Michigan Wolverines season King served as a radio color commentator.[7]
Currently, King is an analyst for the ESPN network.
The March 13, 2011 airing of the ESPN films 30 for 30 documentary The Fab Five sparked national outrage that led to a series of media exchanges between members of the press, Michigan Wolverines men's basketball players, including King, and Duke Blue Devils men's basketball players in forums such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post.[8][9][10][11][12]
On August 8, 2011 (King's 38th birthday) King was detained by police for failure to pay $17,000 in back child support for his 17-year-old son. He was incarcerated at Michigan's Oakland County Jail along with Jalen Rose, who was serving time for a DUI arrest. King was released three days later.[13]
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