Cooper was my road roommate, and also happened to be the first African American player drafted by a National Basketball Association team.

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.

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.

I once heard that Paul Seymour said as much as winning an NBA Championship, he'd like to see the Celtics lose a game after Auerbach brought out the cigar so he could go up to Arnold and stuff the cigar in his face.

French was my first language.

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