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- Updated: April 20, 2016
One of most famous players in Big East history, and perhaps the most well-known, beloved Syracuse player ever — Dwayne “Pearl” Washington — died on Wednesday, according to his family.
He was 52.
Washington battled a brain tumor since last summer, when he was first diagnosed with the malignant growth. He had the first of multiple surgeries in August, and to help offset his crippling medical costs, a GoFundMe page was started in January. It subsequently raised more than $63,000 to aid Washington in during his fight.
In light of the news, Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim did something on Wednesday morning he doesn’t do often: tweeted.
There was no better guy and there’s nobody who has meant more to our basketball program than Dwayne Washington.#CuseFamily
— Jim Boeheim (@therealboeheim) April 20, 2016
You will forever be in our hearts. We love you.
— Jim Boeheim (@therealboeheim) April 20, 2016
“It could be a month, it could be weeks,” Washington’s close friend, Mark Finney, said on April 9. “We’re just accepting that God is ready for him. It’s Pearl’s time.”
Washington spent most of his final weeks at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, in New York City. The city’s mayor, Bill de Blasio, deemed April 9, 2016, “Pearl Washington Day.” The affable and dazzling …
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