Syracuse, N.Y. — Pearl Washington, perhaps the most beloved player in Syracuse University basketball history, is gravely ill, his friend Mark Finney said Saturday night.
Washington was diagnosed last summer with a brain tumor and has undergone various treatments since the detection of the tumor. The most electric of Syracuse point guards is currently at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City.
"The doctors have said it won't be long, but we don't know what that means," Finney said from New York, where he is with Washington and Washington's fiancée Debra Busacco. "It could be a month, it could be weeks.