"A standout star at Brooklyn's Fort Hamilton High School, King was one of the most explosive scorers in Knicks history. In his first three seasons with the Knicks, King averaged 26.6 points, shot 54.5% and led weak teams to the second round of the playoffs twice before suffering a serious knee injury. He is the only Knick to have back-to-back 50-point games, scoring 50 points against the Spurs and then the Mavericks in 1984. King won the NBA scoring title in 1984-85, averaging 32.9 points per game despite making just one three-point shot the whole season. His 60-point game on Christmas Day in 1984 stood as the team's single-game scoring record for 30 years."
"He gets the second spot here simply because he moved from New York to Baltimore when he was 8, so that is the city that really had the most influence on his development as a player. Still, there's no denying how important Anthony was to the Knicks franchise. He was a seven-time All-Star with the team. In 2012-13, he averaged an NBA-high 28.7 points and led the Knicks to 54 wins and the second round of the playoffs."
Jose Alvarado played his first game as a Knick at Madison Square Garden and is a Brooklyn native who starred at Christ the King in Queens. He joins a long line of New York-bred players to wear the orange and blue. Bernard King, a Fort Hamilton High School standout, became one of the Knicks' most explosive scorers, averaging 26.6 in his first three seasons, posting back-to-back 50-point games in 1984, winning the 1984-85 scoring title and scoring 60 points on Christmas Day, a single-game franchise record for 30 years. Carmelo Anthony moved to Baltimore at age eight, was a seven-time All-Star with the Knicks, averaged an NBA-high 28.7 in 2012-13, led the team to 54 wins and the second round, and scored 62 points at Madison Square Garden on Jan. 24.
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