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My biggest win was getting the meal money bumped from $5 to $7.

Bob Cousy

I was literally fabricated over in France and born about six months after the boat landed at Ellis Island. This was the heart of the Depression. For the first 12 years of my life we lived in a terrible ghetto on the East River.
BOB COUSY

Ghetto Heart Sports
My biggest win was getting the meal money bumped from $5 to $7.
BOB COUSY

Basketball Meals Winning
Cooper was my road roommate, and also happened to be the first African American player drafted by a National Basketball Association team.
BOB COUSY

Basketball Player Team
French was my first language.
BOB COUSY

Basketball Firsts Language
The NBA wasn’t a big deal at that time, so it wasn’t really in my career plans.
BOB COUSY

Basketball Careers Games
Every jock gets up and tells the world how lucky he is. But I feel that I may be the luckiest one of all in terms of timing and being at the right place at the right moment-even though, for the last 30 years, I was told I was born 20 years too soon, for obvious reasons.
BOB COUSY

Lucky Sports Years
Race wasn’t an issue. My family was French, but Yorkville was a melting pot of races and cultures.
BOB COUSY

Basketball Issues Race
Do your best when no one is looking.
BOB COUSY

Basketball Famous Player
There were riots in just about every game we played with Syracuse.
BOB COUSY

Basketball Games Riot
Indiana gets credit for having the most rabid basketball fans in the union, but Maine is a very, very active basketball state.
BOB COUSY

Basketball Fans Maine
I was the original socially depraved shy ghetto kid.
BOB COUSY

Basketball Ghetto Kids
We had a strong relationship with Walter Brown, and felt that he was the best owner in the league.
BOB COUSY

Basketball League Strong
Back then every small town had a gym, and if itseated more than 2,000 then we’d be interested in playing in it.
BOB COUSY

Basketball Small Town Towns
I won the city scoring championship as a senior.
BOB COUSY

Basketball Cities Senior
These days I smile benignly at the fights that I see in NBA games. There aren’t any broken noses or black eyes, which happened quite often when I played.
BOB COUSY

Basketball Eye Fighting
People have been killing because of racial differences since the time of Adam and Eve, but in this country racism has been primarily aimed at African Americans.
BOB COUSY

Basketball Country Differences

My biggest win was getting the meal money bumped from $5 to $7.

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