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BOB COUSY: BASKETBALL'S CREATIVE GENIUS
Herbert Warren Wind
January 09, 1956
All Imagination and agility, the great Celtic star is leading the youngest of the major games out of its periodic wildernesses
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January 09, 1956

Bob Cousy: Basketball's Creative Genius

All Imagination and agility, the great Celtic star is leading the youngest of the major games out of its periodic wildernesses

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Bob Cousy has been called a once-in-a-lifetime player. He may prove to be. But from now on the new stars that arise will play like Cousy. You can see his influence in the backyards throughout the country. Where all the kids used to be practicing special shots, you now find them trying to do something with the ball in the style of the master and submitting rather stoically, when the maneuver fails, to that inevitable come-uppance: "Who do you think you are anyway—Cousy?"

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