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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.
- Bob Brannum was my body guard on the court. He was 6'-6 and built like a bulldog.
- But as a coach I wanted to keep things from being too complicated.
- Cooper was my road roommate, and also happened to be the first African American player drafted by a National Basketball Association team.
- French was my first language.
- I grew up in the heart of the Depression.
- 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.
- I was the original socially depraved shy ghetto kid.
- I won the city scoring championship as a senior.
- Indiana gets credit for having the most rabid basketball fans in the union, but Maine is a very, very active basketball state.
- 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.
- 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.
- My biggest win was getting the meal money bumped from $5 to $7.
- My family was poor, my father drove a cab for a living, but we felt normal because everybody else was in the same boat.
- 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…
- Race wasn't an issue. My family was French, but Yorkville was a melting pot of races and cultures.
- Russell joined the team in December, 1956, following the Olympics.
- That seemed to be the case with most of the teams based in the smaller towns - the fans were more rabid, and they wanted…
- The MVP award was very satisfying in terms of personal accomplishments, but the championship was the most important thing of all.
- There were riots in just about every game we played with Syracuse.
- 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…
- We had a strong relationship with Walter Brown, and felt that he was the best owner in the league.
- We hung out on the streets, played stickball, and did all of the things that other kids did.
- We lived in Yorkville until 1940, at which point we moved into the St. Albans neighborhood of Queens.
- 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…
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