What is Jimmy King's Net Worth?
Jimmy King is a retired American basketball player affiliated with the National Basketball Association and other leagues and who has a net worth of $500 thousand dollars. Over the course of his ten year tenure with the NBA, he was awarded with the Continental Basketball Association Champion in 1998, and was named CBA Most Valuable player the same year.
He was born Jimmy Hal King on August 9, 1973 in South Bend, Indiana. Jimmy first came into prominence playing for the famous Wolverines, University of Michigan's basketball team. The starting line up was popularly known at the time as the Fab Five. He played alongside Juwan Howard, Jalen Rose, Ray Jackson and Chris Weber.
Back then, he was listed with an official height and weight of 6 ft 5 and 96 kg. The Fab Five played in NCAA Men's Division Basketball Championship in 1992 and 1993. Jimmy King averaged 15 points per game.
In 1995 he jumped to the Toronto Raptors. During his time with the Raptors, he played 62 games and averaged 4.5 points, 1.4 assists and 1.8 rebounds per game. King went on to play for the LA Crosse Bobcats (1992-2000), the Sioux Falls Skyforce (2000), the Quad City Thunder (2000), the Gary Steelheads (2000-2001), the Tratmundos de Carabobo (2001) in Venezuela, the Asheville Altitude (2001-2002), the Spojnia Stargard Szczecinski (2002-2003) in Poland, the Great Lake Storms (2003-2004), and the Guaiqueries de Margarita (2005) also out of Venezuela. Playing as a shooting guard, he has tallied 285 points, 112 rebounds and 90 assists. Jimmy King is currently the Program Director of a non-profit organization, H.Y.P.E. Athletics Community that provides mentoring for youth. In 2016, the next phase of King's basketball career began, as he signed on to coach Michigan's Ecorse Community High School men's basketball team.