French was my first language.
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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I won the city scoring championship as a senior.
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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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There were riots in just about every game we played with Syracuse.
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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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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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Do your best when no one is looking.
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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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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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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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We had a strong relationship with Walter Brown, and felt that he was the best owner in the league.
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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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My biggest win was getting the meal money bumped from $5 to $7.
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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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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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