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We lived in Yorkville until 1940, at which point we moved into the St. Albans neighborhood of Queens.

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
Sports create a bond between comtemporaries that lasts a lifetime. It also gives your life structure, discipline and a genuine, sincere, pure fulfillment that few other areas of endeavor provide.
BOB COUSY

Athlete Sports Success
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
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
French was my first language.
BOB COUSY

Basketball Firsts Language
That seemed to be the case with most of the teams based in the smaller towns – the fans were more rabid, and they wanted to literally kill the opposition.
BOB COUSY

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

Basketball Games Riot
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
I was the original socially depraved shy ghetto kid.
BOB COUSY

Basketball Ghetto Kids
I once heard that Paul Seymour said as much as winning an NBA Championship, he’d like to see the Celtics lose a game after Auerbach brought out the cigar so he could go up to Arnold and stuff the cigar in his face.
BOB COUSY

Championships Games Winning
The NBA wasn’t a big deal at that time, so it wasn’t really in my career plans.
BOB COUSY

Basketball Careers Games
I had endured six years of frustration so I think winning it all meant more to me than most of the others on the team.
BOB COUSY

Basketball Motivational Team
Race wasn’t an issue. My family was French, but Yorkville was a melting pot of races and cultures.
BOB COUSY

Basketball Issues Race
I won the city scoring championship as a senior.
BOB COUSY

Basketball Cities Senior

We lived in Yorkville until 1940, at which point we moved into the St. Albans neighborhood of Queens.

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