December 29, in a game against the Denver Nuggets, King scored a season high 52 points in a 161-133 victory. It was the most points a Washington player had scored since the team moved from Baltimore in 1972. That season, King was selected to his fourth all-star team. From 1989 to 1991, King averaged 20-plus points in three consecutive seasons. His scoring average peaked at 28.4 points per game at age 34 in 1991, which included ten games where King scored more than 40 points. New Jersey Nets After a year-and-a-half hiatus due to yet another knee injury, King returned for a 32-game stint with the New Jersey Nets at the end of the 1992–93 season, until knee problems forced him to retire from the NBA permanently. NBA career statistics King retired with 19,655 points in 874 games, good for a 22.5 points per game average and number 16 on the all-time NBA scoring list at the time of his retirement. Regular season |- | style="text-align:left;"| | style="text-align:left;"|New Jersey | 79 || || 39.1 || .479 || || .677 || 9.5 || 2.4 || 1.5 || .5 || 24.2 |- | style="text-align:left;"| | style="text-align:left;"|New Jersey | 82 || || 34.9 || .522 || || .564 || 8.2 || 3.6 || 1.4 || .5 || 21.6 |- | style="text-align:left;"| | style="text-align:left;"|Utah | 19 || || 22.1 || .518 || || .540 || 4.6 || 2.7 || .4 || .2 || 9.3 |- | style="text-align:left;"| | style="text-align:left;"|Golden State | 81 || || 36.0 || .588 || .333 || .703 || 6.8 || 3.5 || .9 || .4 || 21.9 |- | style="text-align:left;"| | style="text-align:left;"|Golden State | 79 || 77 || 36.2 || .566 || .200 || .705 || 5.9 || 3.6 || 1.0 || .3 || 23.2 |- | style="text-align:left;"| | style="text-align:left;"|New York | 68 || 68 || 32.5 || .528 || .000 || .722 || 4.8 || 2.9 || 1.3 || .2 || 21.9 |- | style="text-align:left;"| | style="text-align:left;"|New York | 77 || 76 || 34.6 || .572 || .000 || .779 || 5.1 || 2.1 || 1.0 || .2 || 26.3 |- | style="text-align:left;"| | style="text-align:left;"|New York | 55 || 55 || 37.5 || .530 || .100 || .772 || 5.8 || 3.7 || 1.3 || .3 || style="background:#cfecec;"|32.9* |- | style="text-align:left;"| | style="text-align:left;"|New York | 6 || 4 || 35.7 || .495 || || .744 || 5.3 || 3.2