{"id":100730,"date":"2016-01-27T16:19:52","date_gmt":"2016-01-27T15:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackouthiphop.com\/?p=100730"},"modified":"2016-01-27T16:19:52","modified_gmt":"2016-01-27T15:19:52","slug":"the-legend-of-pearl-by-bobbito-garcia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/the-legend-of-pearl-by-bobbito-garcia\/","title":{"rendered":"The Legend of Pearl by Bobbito Garcia"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Bobbito Garcia<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

This past weekend, I learned that Dwayne \u201cPearl\u201d Washington had a brain tumor relapse. Washington was my favorite guard to watch in the early 1980s when I was a teenager. The news had my mind spinning, and made me reminisce\u2026<\/p>\n

March, 1983. Mater Christi High School, Queens. My boy John Merz and I barely found space to cop a squat on the highest bleacher row at the standing-room only crowd for the Wheelchair Classic (NYC\u2019s premier high school all-star game in that era). Billy Donovan (yes, same one that won two consecutive national titles at U of Florida and now coaches the OKC Thunder) crossed a dude up at half court, and the crowd lost their minds.<\/p>\n

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