Vernon Earl Monroe is a retired American ... The record was later broken by Gilbert Arenas. Monroe was traded to the New York Knicks in 1971. Paired up with the equally flamboyant Walt Frazier ...

“God couldn’t go one-on-one with Earl Monroe,” a teammate declared during his prime in the late 1960s and ’70s. A half-century later, as he turns 80 years old Thursday, Monroe struggles to ...

Earl “The Pearl” Monroe turns ... of ushered in a new way to play basketball,” Monroe said in our recent phone interview. Monroe grew up in Philadelphia but first rose to national prominence ...