Jake: My all-time favorite ballplayer was Earl Monroe. Earl the Pearl. Yeah, he was nice. See, everybody remember him from the Knicks, you know, when he helped win that second championship and everything like that. But I’m talking about when he was with the Bullets down at Winston-Salem Stadium… before that game, with 42 points a game the whole season. 41.6… the whole season. But the Knicks, they put the shackles on him, man, you know, on his whole game. They locked him up, like in a straitjacket or something. When he was in the streets of Philly, the playgrounds, he was like… You know what they called him? Jesus. That’s what they called him… Jesus, ‘cause he was the truth. Then the white media got a hold of it. Then they got to call him Black Jesus. He can’t just be Jesus, he got to be Black Jesus, you know. But still… he was the truth. So that’s the real reason why you got your name.

Jesus: You named me Jesus after Earl Monroe, and not Jesus in the Bible?

Jake: Not Jesus of the Bible, Jesus of North Philadelphia. Jesus of the playgrounds. That’s the truth, son.

(via soletherapy)

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