Syracuse legend Pearl Washington, 52, loses battle with brain cancer

Syracuse legend Pearl Washington, 52, loses battle with brain cancer

Syracuse University basketball fable Dwayne “Pearl” Washington has died at age 52.

Washington had been diagnosed with a academician bump endure summer, a backsliding of the action he initially battled in alpha in 1996. Washington had anaplasty endure fall, according to the school, but was clumsy to affected his illness. This season’s Syracuse basketball aggregation – which fabricated it to the Final Four – accustomed Washington by cutting countdown shirts with “Pearl” and “31” inscribed on them.

Washington, a awful accustomed New York basketball recruit, was accepted for his aggregate of playmaking adeptness and scoring ability. He averaged 15.7 credibility and 6.6 assists during a Syracuse arena career that spanned from 1983-85 and – forth with players like Georgetown’s Patrick Ewing and St. John’s Chris Mullin – aerial the Big East Conference to aberrant bulge aural the sport.

The New Jersey Nets fabricated him the 13th all-embracing aces in the 1986 NBA Draft, but he played alone three years in the NBA and never averaged added than the 22.2 account per bold he played as a rookie.

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