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“He touches all the bases,’’ Cousy said in phone interview from his home in Worcester, Mass. “He’s a big man with little-man skills. His footwork around the basket parallels that of a much smaller person and yet he’s 6-foot-11. If you watch him, he doesn’t look like an athlete. He looks more like a truck driver, but he’s got all the skills that a smaller man has with the obvious advantage of good timing and being almost 7-feet.”
Bob Cousy on Jayson Tatum benching: 'This is an embarassment for that poor kid all over the f****** world'
Celtics legend Bob Cousy turned 96 Friday and had a lot to say about US Olympic men’s basketball coach Steve Kerr not playing Jayson Tatum in Thursday’s critical 95-91 semifinal victory over Serbia in Paris. “This isn’t just a snub,” Cousy said from his Worcester home Friday morning. “This is an embarrassment for that poor kid all over the [expletive] world. The Olympics have gotten that big. Everyone’s going to think that there’s something wrong this this kid.”
The Boston Celtics are two wins away from their 18th championship, which would once again make them the winningest franchise in NBA history, and Bob Cousy is watching intently from his longtime home in Worcester. “I’m 95 [expletive] years old with one foot in the grave and I can barely move,” Cousy said over the phone after Game 2. “I know I’m in overtime. So everything in your life becomes more meaningful. And one of the last things I want to be able to see is for the Celtics to hang up banner No. 18.”
A statue in honor of Boston Celtics and Holy Cross great Bob Cousy was unveiled Friday outside the DCU Center. The 92-year-old hall-of-fame point guard was in attendance for the 2 p.m. ceremony, along with Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker, Worcester Mayor Joseph Petty, Celtics owners Wyc Grousbeck and Steve Pagliuca. Mike Gorman, the voice of the Celtics and Cousy's former broadcast partner, emceed the outdoor event.
Celtics great Bob Cousy gets his own statue
Former Boston Celtics and Holy Cross great Bob Cousy is getting his own statue in Worcester. The statue outside the DCU Center is scheduled to be unveiled Friday. The now 92-year-old Cousy, who has called Worcester home for more than 70 years, is expected to attend.
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Cousy, who has lived in West Palm Beach for 35 years but this winter remained at his home in Worcester, Mass., said the only time the vaccine came up in their conversation was when Fauci asked if he had received it. Cousy told him he had not but he was not worried about it and his daughter was working on it. “I wasn't concerned but I simply answered his question and that was the extent of it,” Cousy said. “He didn’t say anything further."
The Worcester City Council on Tuesday ordered City Manager Edward Augustus to “consider reaching out to the Boston Celtics organization to express interest in bringing their G League affiliate to Worcester once their partnership has commenced with the Maine Red Claws.” The “partnership” refers to the Celtics’ pending acquisition of the Red Claws.
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Neil Fingleton, the tallest player in Holy Name High and Holy Cross basketball histories and an adopted Worcester son, passed away Saturday in his native Durham, England, according to multiple reports. Fingleton was 36. Fingleton, who stood 7-foot-6, shot to local celebrity status when he arrived here, on his own, at age 16, and starred for coach J.P. Ricciardi at Holy Name. As a junior, Fingleton helped lead the Naps to the 1999 Central Mass. Division 1 championship.
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Cousy lives in Worcester during the summer, but he winters in Florida so he watches his share of Heat games on television and he was impressed when Whiteside came off the bench to record a triple-double on Jan. 25 against the Bulls with 14 points, 13 rebounds and a franchise-record 12 blocks. "I have never said this in the 40 years since I retired," Cousy said in a recent telephone interview, "but he is the first big guy, not (Patrick) Ewing, (Hakeem) Olajuwon, Shaq (O'Neal), who reminds me defensively and on the boards of Russell. He runs the floor well, he has excellent timing, he blocks shots and keeps them in play the way Russell did."
They fashion themselves merely as a couple of local fans — Grousbeck with ties to Worcester, Pagliuca to Framingham — who one day in 2002 decided they’d like to spruce up one of our city’s legacy franchises and run it as, well, a couple of local fans, their highly successful financial careers and “Shark Tank”-like deal-making personas ostensibly stuffed in their equipment bags for safekeeping. They are having such fun being fan/owners, they stressed during an hourlong interview at a downtown hotel recently, they have little intention to change much, despite receiving, according to Grousbeck, “two serious offers’’ to sell in the last two weeks.
Ainge used to be a Mormon bishop and now he's a high councilor of the Boston stake (region) which includes Worcester so he had to tell the truth, right? "The truthful answer is I really don't know," Ainge insisted. "I have no intention. I'm not trying to trade Rondo, but because he's a free agent this summer, he assured me that he wants to stay in Boston. We'd love to keep him in Boston."
One of Hunter's attorneys, Corey Worcester of the law firm Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, told USA TODAY Sports that Hunter did not do anything wrong according to union bylaws. "There's no there there," Worcester said. "This is an effort to make zero plus zero plus zero equal one."
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