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Cousy

American  
[koo-zee] / ˈku zi /

noun

  1. Robert Joseph Bob, born 1928, U.S. basketball player.


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He played a pass-first style handed down from basketball’s earliest days, a tradition that runs from Bob Cousy and Magic Johnson to John Stockton and Jason Kidd.

From The Wall Street Journal

While Paul worked in the lineage of Cousy and Stockton—basketball’s legendary little guys—the NBA started favoring bigger playmakers, who could pass the ball but also score by the bucketload.

From The Wall Street Journal

Some got the “oldest player” title under most unusual circumstances; Bob Cousy was the league’s oldest player for seven games in the 1969-70 season because he briefly came back after retiring six years earlier, and Nat Hickey - the league’s oldest player ever - was a coach who activated himself for two games with the Providence Steamrollers in 1948 as a 45-year-old.

From Washington Times

Some got the “oldest player” title under most unusual circumstances; Bob Cousy was the league’s oldest player for seven games in the 1969-70 season because he briefly came back after retiring six years earlier, and Nat Hickey — the league’s oldest player ever — was a coach who activated himself for two games with the Providence Steamrollers in 1948 as a 45-year-old.

From Seattle Times

Bob Cousy would not know what to do with Allen Iverson's crossover; however, origins and roots matter.

From Salon