{"id":768239,"date":"2026-06-29T17:53:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T17:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/768239\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T17:53:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T17:53:08","slug":"memorial-service-held-for-chicago-bulls-three-time-champion-broadcaster-stacey-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/768239\/","title":{"rendered":"Memorial service held for Chicago Bulls three-time champion, broadcaster Stacey King"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A memorial service was held Monday morning for Chicago Bulls broadcaster and three-time NBA champion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/chicago\/news\/stacey-king-family-statement-death-chicago-bulls-broadcaster-champion\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Stacey King.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The service was held at the Advocate Center, a training facility close to the United Center.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/chicago\/news\/stacey-king-3-time-nba-champion-chicago-bulls-obit\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">King died on Sunday, June 7, at his home in west suburban River Forest<\/a>. He was 59.<\/p>\n<p>The 6-foot 11-inch Ronald Stacey King was born Jan. 29, 1967, in Lawton, Oklahoma, and attended Lawton High School. He played for the University of Oklahoma, where he was a first-team All-American and where he helped lead the Sooners to the NCAA championship in 1988, though they went on to lose to Kansas.<\/p>\n<p>He was selected at No. 6 by the Bulls in the first round of the 1989 NBA Draft.<\/p>\n<p>King, a power forward, played on the first three NBA Champion Chicago Bulls teams in the 1990-91, 1991-92, and 1992-93 seasons \u2014 alongside Michael Jordan, Scottie Pippen, Bill Cartwright, John Paxson, and B.J. Armstrong, among other icons.<\/p>\n<p>The Bulls traded King to the Minnesota Timberwolves in 1994. He also played for the Miami Heat and Boston Celtics. <\/p>\n<p>After a brief stint coaching in the Continental Basketball Association, King began his broadcasting career as a studio analyst for the Bulls in 2004, later becoming a game analyst during the 2006 NBA Playoffs, and a regular-season game broadcaster for the Bulls starting with the 2006-2007 season.<\/p>\n<p>King is survived by his four sons.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A memorial service was held Monday morning for Chicago Bulls broadcaster and three-time NBA champion Stacey King. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":768240,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,2066,590,85,145894],"class_list":["post-768239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-chicago-bulls","tag-nba","tag-sports","tag-stacey-king"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=768239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/768240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=768239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=768239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=768239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}