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Earl The Pearl: My Story

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Earl “The Pearl” Monroe is a basketball legend whose have an effect on on the game transcends statistics, a player referred to as much for his unorthodox, “playground” style of play as his championship pedigree. Observers said that watching him play used to be like listening to jazz, his moves resembling freefloating
improvisations. “I don’t know what I will do with the ball,” Monroe once admitted, “and if I don’t know, I’m reasonably 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, on the 40th anniversary of that championship season—the franchise’s last—Monroe is after all able to tell his remarkable story.

Written with bestselling writer Quincy Troupe (Miles, The Pursuit of Happyness) Earl the Pearl will retrace 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 in the long run his redemptive, championship glory with the New York Knicks. The book will culminate with a revealing epilogue in which Monroe reflects on the events of the past 40 years, offers his insights into the NBA today, and his thoughts on the way forward for the game he loves.


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