Cousy

[koo-zee]

noun

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

Example Sentences

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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