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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.

Bob Cousy

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

Basketball Ghetto Kids
French was my first language.
BOB COUSY

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

Basketball Issues Race
Indiana gets credit for having the most rabid basketball fans in the union, but Maine is a very, very active basketball state.
BOB COUSY

Basketball Fans Maine
Bob Brannum was my body guard on the court. He was 6′-6 and built like a bulldog.
BOB COUSY

Basketball Body Bulldogs
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
There were riots in just about every game we played with Syracuse.
BOB COUSY

Basketball Games Riot
Do your best when no one is looking.
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Basketball Famous Player
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
The NBA wasn’t a big deal at that time, so it wasn’t really in my career plans.
BOB COUSY

Basketball Careers Games
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
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.
BOB COUSY

Athlete Sports Success
My biggest win was getting the meal money bumped from $5 to $7.
BOB COUSY

Basketball Meals Winning
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
We had a strong relationship with Walter Brown, and felt that he was the best owner in the league.
BOB COUSY

Basketball League Strong
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

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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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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