We had a strong relationship with Walter Brown, and felt that he was the best owner in the league.
BOB COUSYWe 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, 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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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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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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My biggest win was getting the meal money bumped from $5 to $7.
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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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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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I was the original socially depraved shy ghetto kid.
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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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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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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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I grew up in the heart of the Depression.
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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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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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French was my first language.
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I won the city scoring championship as a senior.
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