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I grew up in the heart of the Depression.

Bob Cousy

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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Basketball Player Team
There were riots in just about every game we played with Syracuse.
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Basketball Games Riot
I grew up in the heart of the Depression.
BOB COUSY

Basketball Grow Heart
French was my first language.
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Basketball Firsts Language
I was the original socially depraved shy ghetto kid.
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Basketball Ghetto Kids
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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Basketball Fans Maine
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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Basketball Children Motivational
Race wasn’t an issue. My family was French, but Yorkville was a melting pot of races and cultures.
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Basketball Issues Race
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.
BOB COUSY

Ghetto Heart Sports
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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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
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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Basketball Eye Fighting
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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Basketball Cities Rights
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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Athlete Sports Success
I won the city scoring championship as a senior.
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Basketball Cities Senior
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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Basketball Small Town Towns

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