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New York Post
30 Nov 2024


NextImg:Tom Brady’s irrelevant contributions are waste of Fox’s $375 million — and it likely won’t get better

Ready! Fire! Aim!

In the early 1960s, when a network could purchase NBA rights for even less than Bronny James futures, Bob Cousy, the Celtics’ dynamic point guard who played as if Earl Monroe would soon share his basketball DNA, had just retired.

Cousy also was ABC Sports’ exec Roone Arledge’s favorite player. Both were from Queens, and Arledge insisted that ABC hire Cousy as its lead NBA color analyst.

So, it wasn’t until Cousy’s first national NBA telecast as an ABC commentator that Arledge learned that Cousy spoke with a strong, steady speech impediment.