We had a strong relationship with Walter Brown, and felt that he was the best owner in the league.

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

The MVP award was very satisfying in terms of personal accomplishments, but the championship was the most important thing of all.

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.

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.

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.

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