We played every night. Sometimes we'd stay overnight after a game, but we'd usually drive on to our next destination.

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

But in fairness also to the idea of continuing success, you also have to exploit opportunities.

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 family was poor, my father drove a cab for a living, but we felt normal because everybody else was in the same boat.

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.

We played every night. Sometimes we'd stay overnight after a game, but we'd usually drive on to our next destination.