Head Coach, Red Auerbach and Celtics owner Walter A. Brown would eat crow, but it must have tasted so good!
Cousy was an All-Star immediately, and he would repeat that accolade the next 12 years. Cousy would get better and better where he had a 10-year run as a First Team All-NBA Selection (1951-52 to 1960-61), and in that stretch, he had eight years where he won the Assists Title. In the midst of it, he was named the MVP for 1956-57.
Individual accolades are tremendous, but Cousy was a selfless player and with the addition of Bill Russell to captain the defense, the Celtics dynasty was born. Cousy would become a six-time NBA Champion (1957 & 1959-63). While Russell would become the star of those teams, those titles do not happen without “The Houdini of the Hardcourt.”
Cousy's #14 was retired immediately and he would be inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame in 1971.
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