Bob Cousy on the odd path that brought him to the Boston Celtics

Cousy could have had a different path had another name been pulled out of the hat used to in the Chicago Stags dispersal draft.

Even though he believes he is too old at 95 to make the trek from his home in Worcester, Massachusetts to TD Garden to see the ball club he became a household name playing for in the 1950s and 1960s, Hall of Fame Boston Celtics point guard Bob Cousy remains a devoted Celtics fan.

But the so-called Houdini of the Hardwood could have had a different path in life had another name been pulled out of the hat used to determine which team owners got which players after the now-defunct Chicago Stags went under. Or if he had he simply reported to the team that drafted him out of Holy Cross.

“I wasn’t going to move my family — I’d just gotten married — and go to somewhere called Tri-Cities,” said Cousy in a recent interview with NBC Sports Boston’s Chris Forsberg. “That’s who drafted me.”