Robert Joseph "Bob" Cousy ( eng. Robert Joseph "Bob" Cousy , MWCD / KOO-zē / [2] ; August 9, 1928 in New York ) - American basketball player who played for the clubs of the National Basketball Association " Boston Celtics " ( 1950-63) and Cincinnati Royals (1969-70).
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Completed career | |
Position | Point guard |
Nicknames | Houdini of Hardwood, Mr. Basketball, Kuz [1] |
Growth | 185 cm |
Weight | 79 kg |
Citizenship | |
Date of Birth | August 9, 1928 (90 years) |
Place of Birth | Yorkville , Manhattan , New York |
School | Andrew Jackson ( Queens , New York ) |
College | Holy Cross (1946–1950) |
NBA Draft | 3rd (1st round), 1950 , Three Sites Blackhawks |
Statistics | |
Games | 924 |
Glasses | 16960 ( 18.4 per game) |
Rebounds | 4786 ( 5.2 per game) |
Gears | 6955 ( 7.5 average per game) |
The six-time NBA champion (1957, 1959-63), the most valuable NBA player of the 1956/1957 season, was included 12 times in the symbolic national teams of the season (1952-61 - first team, 1962, 1963 - second team), 13-time participant of the All-Star Game . He is among the 50 greatest players in the history of the NBA , in 1971 he entered the Basketball Hall of Fame .
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Biography
Cousy, the son of French immigrants, grew up in a poor area of Yorkville in Manhattan . When Bob was 12 years old, his father, working as a taxi driver in two shifts, was able to save money for moving to a new home in Queens . In the new district, Cousy became interested in basketball, although at first he played no matter and expelled twice from the Andrew Jackson High School basketball team. When he was 13 years old, having fallen from a tree, Bob broke his right arm and began to train to dribble and toss with his left, eventually becoming ambidexter . This new quality convinced the school team coach Lou Grummond to take Cousy back and entrust him with the most responsible position - the point guard .
After a year and a half, Cousey was already a rising star in New York basketball. Initially, Bob did not plan to go to college, but the possibility of obtaining a sports scholarship forced him to study, in order to improve his academic performance. In 1946, Cousy received an offer of a sports scholarship at Holy Cross College in Worcester , Mass . 40 miles from Boston . The main part of the college team, Bob managed to get through only in the second year, but the coach Alvin Julian considered Cozy an upstart and severely limited the time allotted to him on the playing court. Because of this, Cousy even wanted to transfer to St. John's University , but local basketball coach Joe Lapchik recommended Bob to stay in Massachusetts and win the respect of Julian, whom he called one of the best basketball coaches in the country.
After completing a professional career
After completing his playing career, Cousy in 1963 released an autobiographical book, Basketball Is My Life. In the same year he became a coach at Boston College . In the 1965 season, he managed to lead his team to the final, where the Eagles lost to Providence with a score of 86:91. Providence's trainer in that final was Joe Mulleni - Cousy's former fellow on the Holly Cross university team. For seven seasons in Boston, his team scored 117 victories, having suffered only 38 defeats, and Cozy himself in 1968 and 1969 became the coach of the New England year. He led the Eagles three times to the NIT tournament, including reaching the final of the tournament in 1969, and twice in the NCAA tournament, where in 1967 he was able to reach the Eastern Regional Finals [1] .
In the late 1960s, Cousy returned to the NBA, but already as a coach, heading Cincinnati Royals , where the future member of the basketball Hall of Fame Oscar Robertson was performing. Later, Cousy spoke about this transition: “I did it for the money. They made me an offer I could not refuse. ” [3] In 1970, 41-year-old Cousey even went to the site several times as a player to improve the attendance of the team’s home games. Despite the fact that in seven games he played only 34 minutes and scored 5 points [4] , ticket sales increased by 77 percent. After moving the club from Cincinnati to Kansas City / Omaha, he still held the position of head coach for some time, but he resigned at the beginning of the 1973/74 season [1] .
From 1974 to 1979, Cousy worked as a commissioner for the American Football League . From the 1980s, he worked as a television analyst at the Celtics games [3] . In addition, he played a small role in the basketball game “ Gambling ”, where he played the role of a student sports director. Currently, Cousy works as a consultant for the Celtics, and also sometimes works on television with Mike Gorman and his former teammate Tom Heinson [5] .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 Bob Cousy Bio Undeclared . NBA.com . NBA Media Ventures, LLC. (July 22, 2007).
- ↑ LBPH Pronunciation Guide to Names of Public Figures (English) . National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped . The appeal date is March 9, 2012. Archived May 31, 2012.
- ↑ 1 2 Celtics tried to pass on the ultimate passer . espn.go.com . ESPN Internet Ventures. (July 22, 2007).
- ↑ Bob Cousy Statistics Unsolved . Sports Reference, Inc (July 22, 2007).
- ↑ Bob Cousy: Marketing Consultant . NBA.com . NBA Media Ventures, LLC. (July 22, 2007).
Links
- Bob Cousy on the official NBA website (English)
- Biography of Bob Cousy
- Statistics on Basketball-Reference.com (English)