Cousy
Proper noun
Meaning
Cousy (plural Cousys)
A surname from French.
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But as the decades passed, Cousy blamed himself for not having done enough, for not having understood the depth of prejudice that Russell faced as an African-American star in a city with a fraught history regarding race.
Cousy may not have been as good a ball-handler as Marcus Haynes of the Globetrotters, or as good a shooter as Oscar Robertson, but he was a gate attraction.
“The centers in those days, Walter Dukes, Ray Felix, Harry Gallatin, these guys were like Frankenstein monsters, one foot in front of the other,” Cousy said.
Russell and Heinsohn worked extraordinarily well with Cousy, and they were the players around whom Auerbach would build the champion Celtics for more than a decade.
Led by Russell, Bob Cousy and coach Red Auerbach, Boston won eight straight championships in the NBA from 1959 to 1966.
“We had sent Bob Cousy and Frank Ramsey out on top, and we wanted to see the Coach, who had really held us together, go out on top.”