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.

Back then every small town had a gym, and if itseated more than 2,000 then we'd be interested in playing in it.

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

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

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

We ran an up-tempo, transition-style of game at Boston College - very similar to what we ran when I played for Arnold.

I grew up in the heart of the Depression.