Earl "The Pearl" Monroe is a basketball legend who is known as much for his unorthodox, "playground" style of play as his championship pedigree. On the 40th anniversary of the Knicks championship season--the franchise's last--Monroe is finally ready to tell his remarkable story.
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Earl "The Pearl" Monroe is a basketball legend who is known as much for his unorthodox, "playground" style of play as his championship pedigree. On the 40th anniversary of the Knicks championship season--the franchise's last--Monroe is finally ready to tell his remarkable story.
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The problem with the autobiography format, for the reader, is that we are too often looking for a complete record of a person's life. If that is what you are expecting you should stick to straight biographies. What I got from this book, and what I get from all autobiographies, is insight into the perceptions of the author.
I have waited more than forty years to read a book by Earl "The Pearl" Monroe, (like I am still waiting for the next New York Knicks championship. I know....I'll be waiting quite a while longer for that, to say the least.) I was an avid fan of the Knicks before their first championship in 1969-1970, and after the cheering died down for that accomplishment, and the one to follow in 1972-1973, it has been mostly downhill from there; (with a few high points).
But what I remember most from those early years, (my early years), was the rivalry between the Knicks and the Baltimore Bullets, (and the Lakers and the Celtics). The match-up between The Pearl and Walt "Clyde" Frazier is one for the ages. And when Monroe wound up on the Knicks in the early 1970s it was like a dream come true.
I then got to watch poetry-in-motion on a regular basis. The whirling dervish, double-and-triple pumping machine that was Earl "The Pearl" Monroe knocked me on my butt nearly every game. I often wonder when I watch the current crop of New York Knicks why they don't confer with the historic film footage to try and learn how to fake, (and drive fearlessly to the basket without eating the ball when their telegraphed moves are anticipated by the opposing defense). And if they don't have the ambition to do that they could at least tap the brain of Mr. Frazier, who is always present.
Mr. Monroe refers to himself as an improviser. I couldn't put it better myself. His arrival almost paralleled, in a way, the emergence of Louis Armstrong in the Paul Whiteman era. There just wasn't any way the music could ever return to a simpler state. Once the "damage" is done progress must go on. And we can see that progress, (again, looking at the historic footage; if you weren't privileged to view it first-hand), of the big stars that followed. The players who made their mark, (fill in your favorites here), must have all witnessed Mr. Monroe, at least on film.
You see, they just don't make them like Earl Monroe anymore. And no matter how bad things get in New York, I will always have those memories to fall back on. Is it any wonder that the Knicks organization, on a regular basis, provides the fan base with awards ceremonies; (number retirements, anniversaries of championships, etc.?) While accomplishing the right thing, (the honoring of our heroes), they are also trying to drop a hint. (Are you reading this Carmelo Anthony?)
