Jimmy King was a very big part of the team, and very highly recruited out of high school. He was a high school All-American. A bright future in basketball looked certain for him especially after his "Fab Five" years. He stayed all four years at Michigan, where he outplayed Ray Jackson when it was just them two left. The Raptors picked him up in the second round of the NBA draft. He played one season with them, then got traded to the Mavericks where he was released shortly after. Like Ray Jackson, he played in the CBA and had good seasons there. After a couple more years of trying for the NBA he stopped, and quit playing professionally after 2001. In the recent ESPN documentary about the Fab Five, Jimmy stated that he thinks he was the best player never to pan out in the NBA. Jimmy now works for the ESPN network as an analyst.
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