George Smith King Jr. (August 16, 1928 – October 5, 2006) was an American professional basketball player and collegiate coach.

George King attended Morris Harvey College (now the University of Charleston), where he led his team to four NCAA championship tournaments.

In 1955, King led the Syracuse Nationals to the Finals, where he hit the series-clinching free throw in Game 7 and had a key steal to win the championship.

In 1956, King toured eleven Middle East countries with the Nationals for the Educational Exchange Service of the State Department.

In 1969, he led the Boilermakers to their first Big Ten Championship in 29 years, and the first postseason appearance in school history.

In that 1968–69 season, Purdue led the nation with 94.8 points a game on a team that consisted of notable players such as Rick Mount and Billy Keller.

For the next 21 years as Purdue's seventh athletics director, King directed the Boilermaker program through a period of tremendous growth and change.

[2] King received an honorary doctorate from the renamed University of Charleston in 1983, when he was also named recipient of a Distinguished Alumni Award.