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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.

Bob Cousy

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.
BOB COUSY

Basketball Children Motivational
Cooper was my road roommate, and also happened to be the first African American player drafted by a National Basketball Association team.
BOB COUSY

Basketball Player Team
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.
BOB COUSY

Basketball Country Differences
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.
BOB COUSY

Championships Games Winning
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 COUSY

Basketball Cities Rights
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.
BOB COUSY

Basketball Cities Play
I won the city scoring championship as a senior.
BOB COUSY

Basketball Cities Senior
My biggest win was getting the meal money bumped from $5 to $7.
BOB COUSY

Basketball Meals Winning
I was the original socially depraved shy ghetto kid.
BOB COUSY

Basketball Ghetto Kids
Race wasn’t an issue. My family was French, but Yorkville was a melting pot of races and cultures.
BOB COUSY

Basketball Issues Race
The NBA wasn’t a big deal at that time, so it wasn’t really in my career plans.
BOB COUSY

Basketball Careers Games
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.
BOB COUSY

Lucky Sports Years
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.
BOB COUSY

Basketball Fans Team
French was my first language.
BOB COUSY

Basketball Firsts Language
Back then every small town had a gym, and if itseated more than 2,000 then we’d be interested in playing in it.
BOB COUSY

Basketball Small Town Towns
I grew up in the heart of the Depression.
BOB COUSY

Basketball Grow Heart

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