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.
BOB COUSYI 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.
More Bob Cousy Quotes
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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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We had a strong relationship with Walter Brown, and felt that he was the best owner in the league.
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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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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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We lived in Yorkville until 1940, at which point we moved into the St. Albans neighborhood of Queens.
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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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Bob Brannum was my body guard on the court. He was 6′-6 and built like a bulldog.
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French was my first language.
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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.
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Do your best when no one is looking.
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My biggest win was getting the meal money bumped from $5 to $7.
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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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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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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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