11/13/2023 0 Comments Kings road games![]() “I literally felt like I was 90 years old. “I was just so physically weak,” King said. His son Erick, who is living with them, would help him get up to shower or brush his teeth. There were times where King said he felt paralyzed in bed. “And then she would go, ‘Oh my god, you’re burning up’ and I really couldn’t feel it. “I didn’t even know I had a fever until my girlfriend, you know, she came in and she monitored my temperature like every 30 minutes,” he said. King, who is 54, stayed in bed for 16 days, he said, and each day his temperature would spike between 100 and 103. “I probably had one foot in a banana peel, ready to go to the hospital,” he said. They’ve gone 5-2 since coming back from that trip, including four consecutive wins after defeating the Hawks, 130-118, in Atlanta on Monday night. So King returned to his new home in a suburb near the west side and recuperated, while the Bulls, arguably the biggest surprise team in the NBA this season, tried and mostly succeeded making do with a patchwork team. But to me, the way I felt that day, it was like two miles. ![]() On a good day, the chair was probably 15 steps away. I couldn’t get out of my car and walk to that chair (outside the facility). I told Chip, they have to swab me from the car. “I didn’t have enough strength to get out of my car. “I actually shouldn’t have been driving that day,” King said. Three at-home tests were all positive and King then went to the Advocate Center to get tested by trainer Chip Schaefer. King, who was vaccinated and scheduled for a booster shot, thought he was dealing with a cold on that New York trip, but by the time he got home, he realized it might be COVID-19. Radio broadcaster Bill Wennington also was sidelined. That’s around the same time the Bulls were hit by a COVID-19 outbreak that caused three of their games to be postponed. 2-4 road trip to play the New York Knicks and Brooklyn Nets. King, who is scheduled to return to the Chicago Bulls’ TV broadcast Wednesday for a home game against the Atlanta Hawks, hasn’t worked since the Dec. His girlfriend Dawn Siesener fixed him soup and protein shakes as King tried to fight the virus that he had avoided for more than a year. ![]() “And I would take one bite into it, and it was ‘Oh god this is awful,’ because I had that taste in my mouth and I couldn’t even eat, I couldn’t finish the slice of pizza.” “As I started getting my little appetite back, there’d be days where I wanted Lou Malnati’s,” he said.
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