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 COUSYThe NBA wasn’t a big deal at that time, so it wasn’t really in my career plans.
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There were riots in just about every game we played with Syracuse.
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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.
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The NBA wasn’t a big deal at that time, so it wasn’t really in my career plans.
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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.
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I was the original socially depraved shy ghetto kid.
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My biggest win was getting the meal money bumped from $5 to $7.
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We lived in Yorkville until 1940, at which point we moved into the St. Albans neighborhood of Queens.
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French was my first language.
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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 lived in Yorkville, which is located on the East End of Manhattan. It’s further east than Hell’s Kitchen, and back then it was the kind of place where the roaches and cockroaches were big enough to carry away small children.
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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.
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Race wasn’t an issue. My family was French, but Yorkville was a melting pot of races and cultures.
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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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Bob Brannum was my body guard on the court. He was 6′-6 and built like a bulldog.
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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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