Indiana gets credit for having the most rabid basketball fans in the union, but Maine is a very, very active basketball state.
BOB COUSYThe NBA wasn’t a big deal at that time, so it wasn’t really in my career plans.
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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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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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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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Bob Brannum was my body guard on the court. He was 6′-6 and built like a bulldog.
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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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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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I won the city scoring championship as a senior.
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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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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 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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Do your best when no one is looking.
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I grew up in the heart of the Depression.
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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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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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