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FRIDAY, JULY 26, 1991 -THE INDIANAPOLIS STAR- D-7 Albert King hopes for NBA comeback like his brother By BOB SANSEVERE KNIGHT-RIDDER NEWSPAPERS Minneapolis Last season was tough for Albert King. The season be King spent last season with the CHA's Albany Patroons. There was no escaping news of the NBA. It was In all the papers. It was on TV.

King could flip on ESPN almost any night and see who was doing what in the NBA. In many cases, he would be watching people he had played with and against. On many nights, he would see highlight clips of his older brother, Bernard, who had battled back from major knee surgery to become a star player once again. There are NBA coaches and scouts out there, as well as a few doctors, who doubted Bernard King ever would play basketball again. But he showed them.

Took him two years of rehabilitation, but he showed them all, averaging 22.4 points for the Washington Bullets last season. Bernard King's white-heat tenacity and success Is one reason Albert King Is taking part In the Timberwolves' rookle-free agent camp, which began Thursday. "The bloodlines are good," said Jimmy Rodgers, the Wolves' new coach. The thinking Is, if one brother can make it back, maybe the other one can, too. "Maybe it's a lucky charm in the King family that after two years you get back In," Albert King said.

It took two years for Bernard King to return to the NBA. And two years Is how long Albert King has been out of the NBA. A knee Injury, Albert says, is what bounced him out of the league. It wasn't anywhere near as serious as Bernard's Injury. But it did hinder him, taking away some of the quickness that got him into (he NBA in the first place, and It required arthroscopic surgery.

Some background. King was the New Jersey Nets' first-round draft choice In 1981. He spent six seasons with New Jersey, and averaged a career-high 17 points In the '82-83 season. He left the Nets, a team in constant upheaval, after the '86-87 season and signed with Philadelphia. He lasted one season In Phllly before being traded to San Antonio, King first hurt his knee with the Sixers and relnjured It In San Antonio.

He also suffered a groin injury during the Spurs' training camp and missed a month. "A lot of my game Is quickness," King said. "That was lacking when 1 was hurt." He's quicker now. But not as quick as he used to be. "I saw Albert play last season.

He doesn't move the same way," said Jim Brewer, the Wolves' director of player personnel and assistant coach. "But he still had quickness and could put the ball in the basket." King displayed those skills Thursday during scrimmages with other rookies, free agents and some veterans attending the five-day camp. "It doesn't seem like the ability to shoot has left him," Rodgers said. "When he was healthy, he could light It up," King is at the Wolves' camp hoping to prove he can light It up again and, In doing so, prove he's not too old. At 31, he's older than anyone who played for the Wolves last season.

"If It's close between him and another guy who's younger, you gravitate to the other guy," Brewer said. fore, it wasn't so bad. He was playing basketball In Europe, far from any news of Michael and Magic and all that glitters in the National Basketball Association. But last season was a bear. King was playing in the Continental Basketball Association, a place where dreams, egos King and knees shatter with regularity.

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