We lived in Yorkville until 1940, at which point we moved into the St. Albans neighborhood of Queens.

Do your best when no one is looking.

Russell joined the team in December, 1956, following the Olympics.

My biggest win was getting the meal money bumped from $5 to $7.

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 kind of place where the roaches and cockroaches were big enough to carry away small children.

But as a coach I wanted to keep things from being too complicated.

There were riots in just about every game we played with Syracuse.