Earl the Pearl: My Story

Earl Monroe

Earl the Pearl: My Story
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Sports Publishing LLC
Country
Published
19 March 2019
Pages
448
ISBN
9781683583295

Earl the Pearl: My Story

Earl Monroe

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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