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c.2013 New York Times News ServiceThe news that Mookie Blaylock, a former NBA point guard, was involved in a car accident over the weekend hit the members of Pearl Jam like a tragedy in the family. In many ways, it was one.After all, before Pearl Jam was called Pearl Jam, the band was called Mookie Blaylock. The band’s first album, “Ten,” which became one of the iconic albums of the 1990s, was named after Blaylock’s jersey number.“I was a huge Mookie fan,” Jeff Ament, Pearl Jam’s bassist, said in an interview.Out of all the players in the world, why Blaylock? He had quick hands and made the All-Star team once, but he was hardly a franchise player.Part of it was his “superunique name,” Ament said, but Pearl Jam also includes some serious basketball fans, and the band admired Blaylock’s game.“He was really unselfish; great shooter; great fundamentals,” Ament said.Blaylock became forever entwined with the band around the time that Eddie Vedder, Ament and the other founding members started recording music together in Seattle. As Ament tells the story, the band would rip open packs of basketball cards during lunch breaks, competing to see who got the best players.“One of the cards that went to my manager, and ended up in a cassette, was Mookie’s card,” Ament said. “Fast-forward a couple of weeks: We got offered the Alice in Chains tour on the West Coast. The cassette was sitting on the desk, and somebody said, ‘What about Mookie Blaylock?’”The name stuck, at least for a while.“As time went on, we sort of created a little bit of a monster out of the name,” Ament said. “We never intended it to actually be the name of the band.”The band changed its name to Pearl Jam, released “Ten” and went on to become one of the most successful bands of the past 20 years. But the ties to Blaylock remained.Blaylock, who retired in 2002, was driving an SUV Friday afternoon in an Atlanta suburb when he was said to have crossed the median and slammed into a van. A passenger in the van, Monica Murphy, 40, died. Blaylock, who is in serious condition, is charged with driving on a suspended license and failing to stay in his lane, according to the Jonesboro police.Ament said he had been in touch with people involved in basketball to get updates on Blaylock’s condition. The band posted a get-well message on its Instagram account along with a photo of an old Pearl Jam T-shirt featuring a picture of Blaylock, now 46, in a Nets jersey.Ament remembers watching Blaylock play in college for Oklahoma, and he tracked Blaylock through his career, first with the New Jersey Nets and later with the Atlanta Hawks and the Golden State Warriors.Ament said he got to meet Blaylock when his team traveled to Seattle to play the SuperSonics. They talked about fishing, a shared passion, and played H-O-R-S-E. “I think I did get a couple of letters on him,” Ament said.Ament said: “You always worry when you meet people who have been on your radar for that long, rock stars included. He was one of the one out of 10 guys who exceeds your expectations, in terms of how nice he was.”Last week, just a few days before the accident, Ament came across a photo he had not seen in more than a decade, he said. It was a picture of him and Blaylock together; he put it aside to get it framed.Ament suspects that Blaylock probably does not have a framed photo of Pearl Jam in his house and that Blaylock probably does not dwell on his status as a rock ’n’ roll footnote.“It doesn’t have to be reciprocating props,” Ament said. “I went and played basketball with him, and he said: ‘You do have game! You have a good shot; you have a nice rotation.’ I was like, ‘Awesome.’ That was all I was looking for.”Copyright The Associated PressMore News Featured ArticlesAds By Google NewslettersRSS FeedsMobileClickable ContentThe 'most American-made' vehicles
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