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.”
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