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Kerner decided to trade my rights to the Chicago Stags, which sounded better to me than Tri-Cities, but the Stags folded up almost immediately.

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We had a strong relationship with Walter Brown, and felt that he was the best owner in the league.
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Basketball League Strong
We lived in Yorkville until 1940, at which point we moved into the St. Albans neighborhood of Queens.
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Basketball Neighborhood Queen
It also didn’t take me long to decide that Tri-Cities wasn’t for me, and that I wasn’t going to go there to play basketball.
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Basketball Cities Play
French was my first language.
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Basketball Firsts Language
I grew up in the heart of the Depression.
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Basketball Grow Heart
Cooper was my road roommate, and also happened to be the first African American player drafted by a National Basketball Association team.
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Basketball Player Team
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.
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Ghetto Heart Sports
Indiana gets credit for having the most rabid basketball fans in the union, but Maine is a very, very active basketball state.
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Basketball Fans Maine
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.
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Basketball Fans Team
Race wasn’t an issue. My family was French, but Yorkville was a melting pot of races and cultures.
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Basketball Issues Race
There were riots in just about every game we played with Syracuse.
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Basketball Games Riot
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.
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Championships Games Winning
The NBA wasn’t a big deal at that time, so it wasn’t really in my career plans.
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Basketball Careers Games
My biggest win was getting the meal money bumped from $5 to $7.
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Basketball Meals Winning
Kerner decided to trade my rights to the Chicago Stags, which sounded better to me than Tri-Cities, but the Stags folded up almost immediately.
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Basketball Cities Rights
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.
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Basketball Motivational Team

Kerner decided to trade my rights to the Chicago Stags, which sounded better to me than Tri-Cities, but the Stags folded up almost immediately.

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