Occupation: Basketball Player Birth: May 19, 1928 Death: December 10, 2015
Most people forget that Danny Biasone was the Wilbur Wright of basketball. Because he invented the 24-second clock, the game took off. Yet he was a m….
I always stayed on before and after practice. I just think that if you want to excel at anything, be it basketball, dance or the piano, you need to p….
You can't think about basketball or you ruin your game. It is an instinctive game..
I never had a postup game, which really hurt me eventually. Later in my career, teams would put smaller guys on me to stop my shooting and driving an….
I've heard the joke a million times that "Jews in Sports" must be the thinnest book in the world. Actually, I've seen a lot of great players working ….
Guys hated to play against me because my stock in trade was constant movement. I was quick but not fast so I would move my defender into picks, from ….
A basketball diameter is 10 inches and a rim is 18 inches so I made a 14-inch rim I put in to practice on. Few people could do that because it was so….
The real secret to my success was I could shoot with either hand. Ironically, I became ambidextrous as a direct result of breaking my right hand..
Once people couldn't trust the college game, some checked out the pro game, but that was in big trouble, too. We had no clock and a lot of faults. Pe….
I was a center in college but I was a high post guy, feeding cutters and rebounding. Going to pro ball, I clearly wasn't big and strong enough to pla….
It's fair to say that Jews dominated basketball and that started in the 30s in all the big cities. I think it was simply because Jews lived in ghetto….
The great thing about basketball is it's a live ball. If someone's in your way, push them out of the way, go around them or over them, whatever it ta….
As for the work ethic, I'm just the kind of guy who takes what he does seriously. I never missed a day of school, I've rarely missed work and I playe….
To get paid to play a game I love was enough for me, no matter what the rules were..
I disobeyed a basic basketball rule and never boxed out. I figured that if I had the inside position I had enough of an advantage to just go get the ….