Bob Brannum was my body guard on the court. He was 6′-6 and built like a bulldog.
BOB COUSYThere were riots in just about every game we played with Syracuse.
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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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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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Back then every small town had a gym, and if itseated more than 2,000 then we’d be interested in playing in it.
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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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Do your best when no one is looking.
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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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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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My biggest win was getting the meal money bumped from $5 to $7.
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French was my first language.
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I was the original socially depraved shy ghetto kid.
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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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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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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 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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