King doesn’t have to look far when looking for a current NBA star that resembles his game.
“I would say the one player would be Carmelo Anthony. The great Carmelo Anthony,” King reiterated after a reporter asked him to repeat the answer.
King and Anthony had an odd controversy pop up during the playoffs in May, regarding tweets King did or didn’t send from his now-deleted Twitter account, but the two Knick small forwards have great respect for one another.
Anthony has said publicly, and has told King personally, that he would watch King’s tapes growing up, trying to replicate King’s moves.
“I see the similarities in there when I watch him play, particularly when he raises the ball over his head,” King noted. “That’s something I did every night.”