Source: New York Post
This was the perfect way to kick off a basketball year that quite possibly might be unlike any other in the long and beautiful history of The City Game. This was Thursday morning, inside a packed gym at the Earl Monroe New Renaissance Basketball School in the South Bronx — one of the great experiments of education in our city, one that in five short years has already made a dramatic impact on students, teaches and supporters alike. Here was the great Bill Bradley — onetime rival, onetime teammate and forever friend of the man for whom this school is named — talking about Pearl, taking about the school, talking about all the things that make this game such an important thread in the tapestry of New York City.