You have to remember that coaching wasn't sophisticated back then - you didn't have the camps, clinics and all the technical advances that are available today - so from that standpoint, playing with a cast on my arm was a fortunate event in my life.

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.

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

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.

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.

Indiana gets credit for having the most rabid basketball fans in the union, but Maine is a very, very active basketball state.