Earl Monroe vs Knicks 1971 RS

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[@brooklynbobbyscardrips]

Pearl was my favorite player at the time..Used to watch 1st quarter then start of 2nd quarter would go outside and play because Riordan would come in for Earl when he was a Knick....Great PLayer

[@johnnyp5025]

Magnificent player. Exciting beyond belief. Everything that Kyrie Irving does today, Earl was doing 50 years ago. And I do mean EVERYTHING. In fact, Kyrie is essentially a carbon copy of Earl. Every move Kyrie has, Earl had. They play and move exactly the same way. The spins, the fadeaways, the spectacular drives in traffic. People today marvel at the "handles" of great dribblers like Kyrie and Steph Curry. Earl's handles were every bit as great. And unlike the guys today, Earl did it without carrying the ball or traveling.

[@stevewatkins7144]

I remember watching that series with the Knicks and I was always an Earl Monroe fan after that. He was poetry in motion. He had some sort of magic about him. I was disappointed that the Bullets got swept by the Bucks after that but I think Earl was hurt.

[@lloydkline6946]

My favorite backcourt Jerry west &gail Goodrich & earl Monroe &walt fraizer

[@rick6582CNCMedicalParts]

@@lloydkline6946 I went to Gail Goodrich camp in 70s

[@louishamilton9648]

Unstoppable, awkward, arthritic, artistic baller who, to this day defied category.

[@choward5430]

Earl was my favorite player during this time. I tried emulating everything he did.

[@robertcooper1952]

Earl is one of the most entertaining players of all time.

[@WallTrapMedia]

Black Jesus aka Earl the Pearl, the Whirling Dervish from Winston-Salem State! I would love to see him make a mockery of today's pitiful team defense and extra spacing. I don't think any NBA superstar sacrificed more of their game in order to win a ring that he did when he got signed by the Knicks. He and Frazier on the same team back then was like Klay and Steph. Great footage. Do you have any footage of Pistole Pete thats not already on KZbin? He was the most exciting player to watch to me besides Jordan and there's hardly any footage and he was a superstar?

[@70sfan]

I don't have much from Pete unfortunately.

[@haroldsteinblatt2567]

He wasn’t signed by the Knicks - he was traded to them.. So he didn’t consciously decide to change teams for a championship. But because of that trade, he had no choice but to temper his game - Frazier ran the show. That being said, I remember how great Earl was on the Bullets, and it certainly had to bother him, playing second fiddle on the Knicks. But he is a great guy, always honest in interviews, smart, and he knows, like anyone who watched him on the bullets, that he was one of the best ever.

[@Jiltedin2007]

Could this be the reason why the New York Knicks got Earl “The Pearl” Monroe before the 1972-73 Season?

[@Raider352]

Thanks but I saw the entire series between my Knickerbockers and the Bullets. Monroe kill Clyde.

[@jacksmith5692]

Baltimore/Capital Bullets played the Knicks 6 years in a row in the playoffs and won once. In 1971 Willis Reed played the series injured with a bad left shoulder that he hurt running into Walt Bellamy in round 1 and it affected his shooting. The normally very clutch Reed in the playoffs shot 41% in the 1971 and the Knicks lost game 7 by a 93-91 score sending the Bullets to the finals. It should be noted that Reed was 15-6 lifetime against Alcindor/Jabbar despite the Bucks winning 304 to the Knicks 266 from 1969 to 1974. In the 1970 playoffs, a healthy Reed beat Alcindor in 5 games averaging 28 and 12. A healthy Reed in the 1971 playoffs and the Bucks don't win their NBA title and Alcindor/Jabbar is titleless without Magic Johnson! Remember a 70% healthy Reed wearing a massive Lenox Hill Knee brace on his left knee stepped up against Wilt in the last 3 games of the 1973 finals scoring 61 points with 33 rebounds in only 96 minutes to win a second MVP finals and NBA title. The great Willis Reed only played 99 regular season games his last 3 seasons and in the 1974 playoffs averaged 3.4 points barely dragging his left leg up and down the court. It was so sad to see and he was told at age 31 that he would again major knee surgery and said I'm done!

[@petegobeckli1386]

Jack Smith. Whoa whoa whoa! Jabber don't get anymore titles if it wasn't for MAGIC?! Magic don't get that 1st Chip without Kareem! Jamal Wilkes. Norm Nixon, Jim Chones, Spencer HAYWOOD etc. Like Larry in Boston, both players already had READY MADE TEAMS. Johnson & Bird were the final SPARK PLUGS! that ignited their respective teams' engines. 🎩 🪄 🔮 ✨ Magic coming off that Michigan State Spartan ncaa championship in 79, put the BULLS * Lakers into COIN FLIP! mode. L.A. won it, Magic & Kareem aided 1 another as it turned out. Put the winning ahead of everything. 8 finals appearances & 5 🏆 trophies between 80 & 89.kaj hung em up after 20seasons in 89 at age 42.

[@jacksmith5692]

@@petegobeckli1386 How many titles did Jabbar win without Magic? Oh one and that was a gift because Willis Reed injured his left shoulder badly in round 1 against the Hawks and couldn't shoot and the Knicks lost to the Bullets in 7 games. The Knicks beat the Bullets 5 times in 6 playoffs from 1969 to 1974. Oh by the way, what was Willis Reed's record against Alcindor/Jabbar? Only 15 wins and 6 losses so a healthy Reed in 1971 and the Knicks defeat the Bullets instead of losing game 7 by a 93-91 score and go to the finals to defeat the Bucks. Alcindor/Jabbar was 6 and 15 against Willis Reed. In the 1970 playoffs before his game 5 injury in the finals, Reed played Alcindor and Wilt in 9 games winning 6 and scored 266 points and grabbed 121 rebounds shooting 54%. 30 and 14 against Alcindor and Wilt going 6-3. Jabbar would of won nothing without Magic on his team and a healthy Reed to 36 like Wilt or 35 like Russell and the Knicks win 5-6 NBA titles. His last 3 seasons he only played in 99 regular season games due to a bad left knee and missed 9 games in 70/71. Good medicine and we would of never heard of Alcindor/Jabbar until Magic joined the Lakers in 1979. Hell in game 7 of the 1974 finals, the 7 foot 2 Jabbar shot 10 for 21 and 6 for 11 at the line and scored 26 and 13. Little Dave Cowens at 6 foot 8 shot 52% and 100% scoring 28 with 14 rebounds against the 7 foot 2 Jabbar. Cowens stepped up and they won the NBA title by a 102 to 87 score. Jabbar gagged in a big spot!

[@gffpau]

another reason the knicks lost in 71 is that their overrated coach red holzman had no play to run in the final seconds of the game when the knicks had a side out with seconds remaining........the coach couldn't come up with a play to get frazier the last shot or willis or debushere. and the coach should not be losing a game 7 at home .............would love to watch that game 7

[@jacksmith5692]

@@gffpau Agree with that ridiculous play with Bill Bradley who was penny Bill on that play. A weak impotent shot that barely hit the rim as we lost 93 to 91. It was the only time in 6 playoff series that the Bullets beat the Knicks from 1969 to 1974 and Wes Unseld admitted we knew that Willis couldn't shoot with his bad shoulder and was being used as a decoy and to set picks. It allowed us to cheat and go away from Willis! Kareem wins NOTHING until he had Magic if not for Willis Reed running into Walt Bellamy in Round 1 and destroying his shoulder in 1971. In 1972 the Knicks made the finals without Willis and in 1973 they made it back with an injured Willis who somehow willed himself in games 3-5 of the finals against Wilt to score 61 points with 33 rebounds shooting 54% in only 96 minutes. It earned him tremendous praise from Bill Russell who was doing the games with Keith Jackson and a second Finals MVP award. The NBA was so lucky that from the spring of 1971 to when he retired Willis Reed was never healthy at age 28. TRAGIC!

[@jaykay6387]

Totally unique player, don't think there's ever been anybody that's close to being a "comparable". He'd pumpfake you to death, had some great matchups with Frazier and gave him fits when he was with the Bullets. Not an "athletic" player by any means, don't think I ever saw him get more than a few inches off the floor but that wasn't his game, he was like a magician of sorts, always about "misdirection", get you leaning the wrong way either up or down or side to side.

[@vengod7]

Please make a HL video of Clyde vs Pearl on this game..