Did you follow those great Holy Cross teams of that era, especially the ones that featured Bob Cousy?
MICHAEL DUKAKIS Me – highly regarded? You can certainly say that I played freshman basketball, but I’m not going to take credit for much more than that [laughs]. Sports were very important to me – basketball, cross country running, tennis – and it’s a component that I still feel is critical for our youth today. I’m a firm believer in both a sound mind and a sound body, and I think we need our youth spending more time on the playing fields and less time in front of the television. Get out and get active – that’s the message that needs to be sent to our young people. Of course I followed those great teams from Holy Cross – they won both the NIT and NCAA championships, and back then the NIT was the premiere basketball tournament in the country. The Crusaders had a Greek named George Kaftan on that 1946-47 national champion, and that was huge for me in terms of having a prominent Greek athlete as a role model. Kaftan would go on to play a couple of seasons with the Celtics, by the way, rig
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