Taylor King Finds a New Home

• Prescott

  Interesting read. Maybe, this kid should have stayed closer to home from the beginning.
  
  http://www.foxnews.com/sports/2011/01/29/king-ditches-hoops-royalty-naia-comeback/#
• reclegend22

  

  Maybe, this kid should have stayed closer to home from the beginning.

  I would agree with this. Not smoking a daily pack of cigarettes and working hard would have helped, too (in his earlier college days).
  
  Glad to see he has outwardly turned his life around for the better. I always hoped he would end up one of my favorites at Duke. I loved that confidence he always displayed in believing that any shot he took, whether from 8 feet or 40, was going to fall in. Not many players have that kind of self-conviction. He was a gunner, sure, but entertaining when "doing his thing."
• thedynasty1998

  

  What were his off the court issues discussed in the article? I understand the partying and drugs, but there seemed to be more to the story.
• reclegend22

  

  You know, dynasty, I've always wondered that myself, especially since King was a Blue Devil and his end there so abrupt and sad. There is a deeper piece to this narrative. I just don't know what that is, and have never read or heard anything carrying enough validity to make a reasonable guess.
  
  I do know this, though. Without all the incautions that disturbed his career at the Division I level and with a level head, King could have scored more points than most college players ever dream. He was a killer spurt scorer with a remorseless outside stroke who never saw a terrible shot and understood that defense was where scorers went to lose their defenders. The school of Brent Price and, more comparable to King, Brendan Plavich.
• sportswizuhrd

  He seemed so lost when he was playing at Villanova.