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

Bob Cousy

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

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

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

Basketball League Strong
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
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.
BOB COUSY

Basketball Eye Fighting
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
Do your best when no one is looking.
BOB COUSY

Basketball Famous Player
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.
BOB COUSY

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

Basketball Ghetto Kids
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
I grew up in the heart of the Depression.
BOB COUSY

Basketball Grow Heart
French was my first language.
BOB COUSY

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

Basketball Meals Winning
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
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
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

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