Award and was elected to Jewish Sports Hall of Fame. In 2001, Cohen was elected to the Board of Directors of the Jewish Federation of South Palm Beach County. Personal life Cohen was married twice. He had two children, Laurie Cohen Fenster and Gordon Cohen, with his first wife Joan Fields Cohen, who died in 1989; and one child, Rebecca Cohen, with his second wife Carol Cohen. Cohen died in Boca Raton, Florida, of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. Services were held at the Park Avenue Synagogue in Manhattan. References 1930 births 2004 deaths American sports businesspeople People from Passaic, New Jersey People from Boca Raton, Florida Columbia Law School alumni National Basketball Association executives New Jersey Nets owners New Jersey Nets executives Boston Celtics owners Boston Celtics executives National Basketball Association owners American chief executives Columbia College (New York) alumni