There were riots in just about every game we played with Syracuse.
BOB COUSYMy biggest win was getting the meal money bumped from $5 to $7.
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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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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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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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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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Race wasn’t an issue. My family was French, but Yorkville was a melting pot of races and cultures.
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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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My biggest win was getting the meal money bumped from $5 to $7.
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I was the original socially depraved shy ghetto kid.
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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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The NBA wasn’t a big deal at that time, so it wasn’t really in my career plans.
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I grew up in the heart of the Depression.
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French was my first language.
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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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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, 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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