Ben Knight has been announced as the 2022 winner of the Brydens Lawyers Sydney Kings’ Ring of Honour award.
The fan and member-voted award will be presented officially at Sunday’s massive clash at Qudos Bank Arena against the Illawarra Hawks.
The Ring of Honour recognises players not just for their talents on the court, but for other reasons worthy of recognition consisting of:
- The most entertaining;
- The most courageous;
- A great teammate; or
- Those who gave back to our community.
Separate to the Sydney Kings Wall of Legends, which is the club’s most distinguished award, the Ring of Honour is an award that enables the entire Sydney basketball community to vote on the winner.
The other nominees for this year were Ben Madgen, Brad Rosen, Jason Smith, Bruce Bolden and Leon Trimmingham.
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Ben joined Dan Boyce on the Aussie Hoopla podcast to discuss his NBL career which included playing for nine teams (an NBL record) during his 16 seasons in the league.
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Podcast topics include;
- On being recognised for his role in Sydney Kings history and entering the Kings “Inner Circle” (2:00)
- Coming up through the Sydney Kings development program the Sydney Sky and making his debut for the Kings in 1997 (4:00)
- Playing for Brian Goorjian at the South East Melbourne Magic in 1998 (8:00)
- Is there truth to the narrative that Goorjian pushed his players too hard during the 1990s and by the Grand Final were always too ‘gassed’ to win the title (14:00)
- The Magic and the Giants merge to create the Victoria Titans and Ben gets squeezed out of the roster and signs with Brisbane (17:00)
- His fourth team in four seasons, playing for the Townsville Crocodiles in 1999/00 (20:00)
- A breakout season in Cairns opens up opportunities with the Australian Boomers (27:00)
- Being a part of the 2002 Australian Boomers squad which lost to New Zealand and failed to qualify for the FIBA World Championships (32:00)
- Financial instability in Cairns leads him to move to Wollongong to play with the Hawks (40:00)
- A homecoming for Knight as he returns to play for the Sydney Kings and helped win the team’s third championship (42:00)
- Falling short in the Kings run for a fourth championship in a row before falling short to Chris Anstey and the Melbourne Tigers (49:00)
- The Singapore Slingers and the difficulties it faced being Australia’s first Asian based team (54:00)
- A near career-ending injury during his year with the Melbourne Tigers (103:00)
- A return to the Sydney in 2010 to help re-launch the Kings (105:00)
- Reaching his 400th NBL game in 2016 (109:00)
- Coaching and life after the NBL (1:13:00)
- The highlights and the biggest lessons learnt during Ben’s NBL career (1:15:00)
All of this and a whole lot more…
