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Clippers Owner Donald Sterling Besmirches Jewish Basketball History | New Republic

'Three years later, a black player known for a more isolation-heavy type of play, Earl Monroe, helped the Knicks to a second title. '

'It’s sad for all the obvious reasons, but it’s also sad because basketball and the National Basketball Association have historically been a concentrated locus of Jewish-black exchange, and even solidarity. '

'Holman’s starting five that season comprised two blacks and three Jews, and for a time, these were basketball’s dominant on-court ethnic groups. '

'These principles—an essential part of the game even today—were codified into something known as the City Game by coach Nat Holman, whose City College squad won both the NCAA and NIT titles in 1950. '

' A few years later, Woody Allen published an extended riff in praise of Earl the Pearl. '

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