Beacon Audiobooks Releases “Collision Course” By Author William Cook

Beacon Audiobooks Releases “Collision Course” By Author William Cook

LGBTQ Entertainment News, Reality TV, Television

Following the 1956-57 NBA season, the Fort Wayne Pistons relocated to Detroit, and the Rochester Royals were moved to Cincinnati. The relocations of the Fort Wayne and Rochester franchises left Syracuse as the last small market team in the NBA.

As the 1960s began, the NBA entered the crossroads of its existence featuring such mega stars as Wilt Chamberlain, Jerry West, Elgin Baylor, and Hal Greer, the Boston Celtics became the most dominating team in the league. Led by Bob Cousy, Bill Russell, and John Havlicek, the Celtics would win 11 NBA championships between 1957 and 1969. But during the 1960s, the Cincinnati Royals were a team also loaded with all-stars and former Olympic players like Oscar Robertson, Jerry Lucas, Wayne Embry, and Adrian Smith. But the Royals would never win a championship in Cincinnati, and relocated to Kansas City in 1973. Today, the franchise is called the Sacramento Kings.

So what went wrong in Cincy? While the Royals received only marginal support from their fans and absentee owner Louie Jacobs, the Buffalo concessionaire king and Godfather of sports, the answer to the downfall of the Royals seems to lie somewhere in the basketball stories of Bob Cousy and Oscar Robertson, whose brilliant careers collided in an unharmonious relationship when the retired Cousy became coach of the Royals.

While Bob Cousy had been credited for saving professional basketball in Boston as a player, he is also credited with destroying professional basketball in Cincinnati as a coach. The uneasy relationship in Cincinnati between Cousy the coach and Robertson the player fueled by leftover competitive conflict from their days as players on the hardwood would become a collision of will between them, and render the Royals franchise dysfunctional.

Beacon Audiobooks has just released “Collision Course: The Basketball Lives of Bob Cousy and Oscar Robertson and the Fall of the Cincinnati Royals” written by author William Cook and narrated by John Guccion.

Download your copy on Audible today:

https://www.audible.com/pd/Collision-Course-Audiobook/B0CC3ZBPZ1?qid=1689704959&sr=1-1&ref=a_search_c3_lProduct_1_1&pf_rd_p=83218cca-c308-412f-bfcf-90198b687a2f&pf_rd_r=65XHJJNAZ61PN1YVJK5W&pageLoadId=UE6g4bZgTJK9Eqis&creativeId=0d6f6720-f41c-457e-a42b-8c8dceb62f2c

The official website for Beacon Audiobooks may be found at http://www.beaconaudiobooks.com

Follow Beacon Audiobooks on Twitter @BeaconAudiobook

For interviews or more information contact info@beaconaudiobooks.com

Articles You May Like

Digging Up the Scarecrow Horror Hidden Gem
Dan Aykroyd Does Not Hold Back His Thoughts About Where Ghostbusters Left Off: ‘I Don’t See That Coming’
Locals Are Almost As Unhappy About Pippa Middleton Moving To The Countryside As Chris Hemsworth’s Neighbors Were When He Moved To Byron Bay
Horror Decor Discontinuing the “Horror Buddies” Line; Now’s Your Last Chance to Grab Them!
Charli XCX on SNL: Watch All the Sketches and Performances