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•Posted by3 years ago

OG passing wizard Bob Cousy (1950s)

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•Posted by1 year ago

How many people understand that rules HANDCUFFED Bob Cousy and Jerry West’s generation of players?

The complete IGNORANCE of how the game was played is mind boggling to me.

Oscar Robertson talked about it in his interview with Chris Webber.

They could go behind the back and dribble between the legs but the rules were so strict that they had to bounce the ball with an open palm and even a basic crossover was sometimes called a travel/carry.

Players now could NOT dribble the way they wanted to back then because it was literally illegal to do so. How come people don’t know this?

You can literally just research this stuff.

There’s footage of Wilt with the Harlem Globetrotters doing no look passed and kids might think “Oh Magic Johnson invented that”

How much disrespect of the old generation is based off of pure ignorance of how the rules affected them?

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•Posted by2 months ago

Bob Cousy at 95: ‘I'm the luckiest S.O.B. on the planet'

So what does 95 mean to Cooz?

"It’s a number,” said Cousy. "I’ve said often over the years, I am literally the most fortunate, luckiest S.O.B. on the planet. Everything in my life has kind of fallen together. Whether it's faith -- hopefully there’s a big guy up there watching this interview or what -- but, going through life, all of us have to rely on hopefully good luck or fortune or faith or whatever we want to call it. Most of the bounces have gone my way.

"And so I sit back and just think of how fortunate I've been in having, not only a fruitful life, but a productive, interesting life as well, in terms of playing a child's game."

https://www.nbcsportsboston.com/nba/boston-celtics/celtics-legend-bob-cousy-age-95-luckiest-sob-planet/547026/

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•Posted by5 years ago

Bob Cousy shredding his opponent's ankles

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•Posted byu/[deleted]1 year ago

Bob Cousy - Founder of the Players Union

A lot has been said about JJ Redick's comments on First Take "Bob Cousy played against a bunch of firemen and plumbers". While this is a bad take for a multitude of reasons regarding Bob Cousy's on the court basketball ability and legacy, I just wanted to shine some light on what Cousy did off the court, which has set the foundation for the NBA being the 'players league' it is today.

In the early NBA seasons league decisions were dominated by wealthy owners, with little input from the underrepresented players. In 1954 Cousy set out to change this, mailing the league's other stars (such as Dolphy Schayes and Paul Arizin), proposing an NBA players union from which all players had a bargaining platform to demand better playing conditions. In 1955, the union made it's first set of demands to the league including:

Back payment for players of the disbanded Baltimore Bullets. The team had gone under during the season, and their players had not been paid their contracted salaries.
A maximum of 20 exhibition/barnstorming games per season. Owners wanted teams playing as many games as possible during the year (on top of the 72 regular season, and playoff games) to maximize revenue.
$15 payments for off the court appearances, and the payment of moving costs for traded players (who at this point were footing the cost to move themselves and their families across the country).
Elimination of the $15 'whispering fines' Refs could place on players mid game. I can't find anywhere what these fines were actually for.....

Whilst star players like Cousy have always been treated well, the above demands being accepted in 1957 by the NBA were massive for the league's low paid 'role players'. The irony of Reddick's comments is that Cousy set the groundwork for a league where no player would ever have to worry about working a second job.

Since it's inception the Players Union has gone from strength to strength. Players like Reddick enter a league represented by a Union with a real voice in NBA decision making, whilst having a high level of bargaining power on remuneration and playing conditions. Today's league truly is a 'players league', and this can all be traced back to Bob Cousy's decision in 1954 to send a letter to the league's other star players.

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