Although he believes he’s too worn at 95 to form the trek from his house in Worcester, Massachusetts to TD Ground to look the ball membership he turned into a family identify enjoying for within the Fifties and Nineteen Sixties, Corridor of Status Boston Celtics level preserve Bob Cousy residue a faithful Celtics fan.

However the so-called Houdini of the Hardwood will have had a distinct trail in day had some other identify been pulled out of the hat impaired to decide which workforce house owners were given which gamers nearest the now-defunct Chicago Stags went beneath. Or if he had he merely reported to the workforce that drafted him out of Holy Go.

“I wasn’t going to move my family — I’d just gotten married — and go to somewhere called Tri-Cities,” mentioned Cousy in a contemporary interview with NBC Sports activities Boston’s Chris Forsberg. “That’s who drafted me.”

“And when they called me and said, ‘Hey, congratulations, No. 1 pick,’ I said, ‘Jesus, I was a pretty good student, what the hell is the Tri-Cities?’” mentioned the Celtics legend.

“And that didn’t endear me to the good folk of Tri-Cities, because the Tri-Cities Bugle had me in the headlines saying, ‘Cousy says, ‘What the hell is the Tri-Cities?’”

 

“The other two — there were three of us in the hat (for a very low-tech dispersal draft) when they dispersed Chicago when they went bankrupt — Max Zaslofsky, won the scoring championship, and New York wanted a good Jewish player,” recalled Cousy. “Wow, they went and had a party when they got him.”

“And then Andy Phillip, he became a Hall of Famer, point guard, a good one, went second to Philly. And the only thing left in the hat, other than the band, was moi.”

And the remainder, as they are saying, was once historical past.

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