Thursday, the Chicago Bulls announced that the franchise will hold a Stacey King Celebration Night event at the United Center on Feb 4, 2027, when the Bulls host the visiting Oklahoma City Thunder.
Stacey King Forever ❤️
— Chicago Bulls (@chicagobulls) September 10, 2026
Join us at the United Center on February 4, 2027 for Stacey King Celebration Night, where we will honor Stacey's life and legacy.
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The Bulls also announced that team jerseys for the 2026-27 NBA season will display a black Stacey King memorial band. King passed away at the age of 59 on Jun 7, 2026.
Our team will wear this King jersey band throughout the season in Stacey’s honor ❤️ https://t.co/3FsQCqrDj9 pic.twitter.com/o1YUeLqh4Z
— Chicago Bulls (@chicagobulls) September 10, 2026
A touching context to the announced celebration is that it will occur approximately one week after what would be King’s 60th birthday on January 29th, 2027. It is also appropriate that the Bulls' opponent for the evening will be the Oklahoma City Thunder, given that King was an Oklahoma native and legendary NCAA men’s basketball player for the Oklahoma Sooners.
The agenda and honors publicized thus far by the Bulls are great, and the franchise must take the ultimate step in honoring Stacey King’s Bulls broadcasting legacy by retiring his broadcaster microphone to the rafters of the United Center.
A fitting tribute for Stacey King’s TV legacy
Stacey King’s broadcasting contributions to the Chicago Bulls radically transformed his place in Bulls franchise history. Of course, King was a valuable rotational contributor to the Bulls' first three NBA championship rosters between 1991 and 1993. However, King’s transition to the Bulls’ broadcasting seat forever institutionalized Stacey King as a Bulls icon.
King’s voice narrated the brief yet meteoric Bulls career arc of hometown hero Derrick Rose. Stacey King’s humor and wit doled out nicknames to Bulls players the way a great deli might name sandwiches.
When Bulls games were lean on star power or even fan-favorite players, Stacey King delivered energy and entertainment to Bulls broadcasts that forever attached the identity of Stacey King to the identity of Chicago Bulls games.
Before King, multiple generations of Bulls fans were privileged to watch the iconic Bulls television broadcasts of Johnny Red Kerr, who is memorialized with a statue inside the United Center. There are no comparisons between the two broadcasters because they are icons in their own distinct ways.
The context that gives merit to the Bulls raising a banner in the United Center for Stacey King’s broadcast career is the level of national recognition he received with the rise of Bulls games being streamed through NBA League Pass.
King, along with his play-by-play partner Adam Amin were regularly praised as a league-leading local television broadcast team among all 30 NBA franchises.
Stacey King’s broadcasting impact rose to the level of legendary Chicago Cubs broadcaster Harry Caray’s impact as his profile grew thanks to national televised cable broadcasts of Chicago Cubs games in the 1980s and 1990s.
Simply put, Stacey King’s broadcasting legacy is so deeply woven into the identity of the Chicago Bulls that his name and microphone should forever be visible during every Bulls home game in perpetuity.
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