Bernard King was a New Yorker who got the dream of every kid from Gotham: he got to play for his hometown team and he was sensational.
At one point, he scored 50 points in back-to-back games. Larry Bird said he considered King to be the best forward in the NBA.
Then, in 1985, he suffered a devastating knee injury, tearing his ACL, tore his knee cartilage and a broken bone.
Today we have arthroscopic surgery but in his day, an ACL injury was usually career ending.
He started a rehab that was controversially secret.