Alabama Basketball Coach Avery Johnson Introduced

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Nick King, a forward who transferred from Memphis, committed to Alabama after taking an official visit to the school this weekend, his father Greg confirmed to AL.com.

King will sit out the 2015-16 season and be ready in the fall of 2016. He will have two years left to play.

"We got down there and Coach Avery (Johnson) explained to Nick what he was trying to do with the program and what he wanted to do with Nick," Greg King said. "Nick said he loved the campus and loved everything about the visit."

The 6-foot-7, 220-pound King is a former top 50 national recruit in the class of 2013. He scored 7.2 points per game as a sophomore at Memphis this year. He has the versatility to play either forward spot.

It was Greg King's second visit to Tuscaloosa, as he took his younger son once for a Nick Saban football camp.

King picked Alabama over Ole Miss and Arkansas. He visited Ole Miss last weekend, and was scheduled to visit Arkansas next weekend.

Alabama now has two scholarships remaining for the 2015-16 season if it chooses to use them. This is Johnson's second Alabama commitment after securing the signature of Alabama's Mr. Basketball Dazon Ingram from Theodore.