In his own words, the story of Knicks hero, NBA champion, and iconic superstar Earl "The Pearl" Monroe. Earl The Pearl Monroe is a basketball legend whose impact on the game transcends statistics, a player known as much for his unorthodox, playground style of play as his championship pedigree. Observers said that watching him play was like listening to jazz, his moves resembling free-floating improvisations. I don't know what I'm going to do with the ball, Monroe once admitted, and if I don't know, I'm quite sure the guy ...
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In his own words, the story of Knicks hero, NBA champion, and iconic superstar Earl "The Pearl" Monroe. Earl The Pearl Monroe is a basketball legend whose impact on the game transcends statistics, a player known as much for his unorthodox, playground style of play as his championship pedigree. Observers said that watching him play was like listening to jazz, his moves resembling free-floating improvisations. I don't know what I'm going to do with the ball, Monroe once admitted, and if I don't know, I'm quite sure the guy guarding me doesn't know either. Traded to the New York Knicks before the 1971-72 season, Monroe became a key member of the beloved, star-studded 1972-73 Knicks team that captured the NBA title. And now, for the first time in paperback, Monroe tells his remarkable story of that championship season and so much more. Written with bestselling author Quincy Troupe ( Miles , The Pursuit of Happyness ), Earl the Pearl retraces Monroe's life from his upbringing in a tough South Philadelphia neighborhood through his record-setting days at Winston-Salem State, to his NBA Rookie of the Year season in 1967, his tremendous years with the Baltimore Bullets, and ultimately his redemptive, championship glory with the New York Knicks. Updated since first published in hardcover, the book culminates with a revealing epilogue in which Monroe reflects on the events of the past 45 years, offers his insights into the NBA today, and his thoughts on the future of the game he loves.
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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?)
