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Bob Cousy
Robert Joseph Cousy is an American former professional basketball player. He played point guard for the Boston Celtics from 1950 to 1963, and briefly with the Cincinnati Royals during the 1969–70 season. A 13-time NBA All-Star and 1957 NBA Most Valuable Player (MVP), Cousy was a core piece during the early half of the Celtics dynasty, winning six NBA championships during his 13-year tenure with th…
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sports · American basketball player and coach (born 1928) · basketball player · basketball coach · actor · also Bob Cousy, Robert Joseph Cousy, Cousy
Born 9 August 1928 · Q312643
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2026· 10 entries
The Boston Globe: Opinion | Vivid boyhood memories of celebrating ‘Bob Cousy Day’
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Yahoo Sports: Banner Years: 1964, answering the question, ‘Can the Celtics win without Cousy?’
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sekbernews.id: Boston Celtics Support Joe Mazzulla as Legend Bob Cousy Turns 98
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Public attention spiked: 3,590 Wikipedia readers in one day, 4.8× the usual 742, with 2 article edits. Coverage that week: “Boston Celtics Support Joe Mazzulla as Legend Bob Cousy Turns 98” (sekbernews.id).
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Celtics Wire: Today in Boston Celtics history: Cousy, Anthony, Arroyo, Udoka born; Davis re-signs
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The Boston Globe: Honoring Celtics legend Bob Cousy — ‘I’m in double overtime’ — on the occasion of his 98th birthday
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Public attention spiked: 3,456 Wikipedia readers in one day, 4.7× the usual 742, with 0 article edits. Coverage that week: “‘The luckiest I will ever be’: Bob Cousy honored with bridge dedication in Worcester” (Yahoo).
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Yahoo: ‘The luckiest I will ever be’: Bob Cousy honored with bridge dedication in Worcester
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The Bob Cousy Award is given out by the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame to the top men's collegiate point guard
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2025· 2 entries
His alma mater Holy Cross announced that they would be renaming their basketball court in his honor
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Larry Brown Sports: Bob Cousy makes blunt comments about Jaylen Brown
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2024· 3 entries
Larry Brown Sports: Bob Cousy sends notable message to Victor Wembanyama
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Total Pro Sports: Boston Celtics Legend Bob Cousy Tapped Victor Wembanyama As The “Next Bill Russell”
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CBSSports.com: Bob Cousy on wish to see Celtics' 18th NBA title: 'I'm 95 f---ing years old with one foot in the grave'
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2022· 1 entry
The NBA renamed its Eastern Conference championship trophy in honor of Cousy
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2019· 4 entries
Was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Donald Trump
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Statue dedicated in his honor outside the DCU Center in Worcester, Massachusetts in June 2021
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Cousy informed The Boston Globe that he had received an official letter notifying him that he would receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Donald Trump on August 22, 2019
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Won Presidential Medal of Freedom (2019).
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2013· 1 entry
After suffering from dementia for several years
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2008· 1 entry
Cousy's college uniform number, 17, was hoisted to the Hart Center rafters
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1983· 2 entries
Awarded John Bunn Award (1983).
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"What Bill Russell was on defense, that’s what Cousy was on offense — a magician
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1971· 2 entries
The NBA 35th Anniversary Team in 1981, the NBA 50th Anniversary All-Time Team in 1996, and the NBA 75th Anniversary Team in 2021 making him one of only four players that were selected to each of those teams
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And in 1963, the Celtics retired his uniform number, 14, the first of two numbers retired (the other was Ed Macauley's number 22)
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1969· 2 entries
Joined Sacramento Kings in 1969.
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“I was made the offer I couldn”
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1963· 2 entries
And in the same year became coach at Boston College
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Joined Boston College in 1963.
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1961· 1 entry
Awarded All-NBA Team (1961).
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1960· 1 entry
Awarded All-NBA Team (1960).
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1959· 1 entry
Awarded All-NBA Team (1959).
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1958· 1 entry
Awarded All-NBA Team (1958).
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1957· 3 entries
Awarded All-NBA Team (1957).
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Awarded NBA Most Valuable Player Award (1957).
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Awarded NBA All-Star Game Kobe Bryant Most Valuable Player Award (1957).
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1956· 3 entries
Won the All NBA First Team with _Retired Basketball (1956).
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Awarded All-NBA Team (1956).
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“But I remember one day in 1956, Red said,”
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1955· 2 entries
Won the All NBA First Team with _Retired Basketball (1955).
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Awarded All-NBA Team (1955).
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1954· 4 entries
Won the All NBA First Team with _Retired Basketball (1954).
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Awarded NBA All-Star Game Kobe Bryant Most Valuable Player Award (1954).
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Awarded All-NBA Team (1954).
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The NBA had no health benefits, pension plan, minimum salary, and the average player's salary was $8,000 ($82,000 in 2021 dollars) a season
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1953· 3 entries
Won the All NBA First Team with _Retired Basketball (1953).
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Awarded All-NBA Team (1953).
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Cousy became a partner at Graylag Nature Preserve (then, Camp Graylag), a camp for boys in Pittsfield, New Hampshire
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1952· 2 entries
Won the All NBA First Team with _Retired Basketball (1952).
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Awarded All-NBA Team (1952).
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1950· 3 entries
Joined Boston Celtics in 1950.
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Played for Boston Celtics (1950–1963).
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The Celtics played a game in the then-segregated city of Charlotte, North Carolina, and teammate Chuck Cooper—the first African-American in NBA history to be drafted—would have been denied a hotel room
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1946· 1 entry
Played for Holy Cross Crusaders men's basketball (1946–1950).
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1928· 1 entry
Born 1928-08-09.
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