Oscar Robertson
Oscar Robertson
Oscar Palmer Robertson, nicknamed "The Big O", is an American retired National Basketball Association player who played for the Cincinnati Royals and Milwaukee Bucks. The 6 ft 5 in, 220 lb Robertson played at point guard and was a 12-time All-Star, 11-time member of the All-NBA Team, and one-time winner of the MVP award in 14 professional seasons. He is the only player in NBA history to average a triple-double for a season. He was a key player on the team which brought...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBasketball Player
Date of Birth24 November 1938
CountryUnited States of America
I played on an all-black high school team and we didn't want people saying that we were clowns.
I think no one has written a history of the great coaches who were around 30 to 40 years ago who taught the fundamentals.
I don't blame David Stern because a player gets on the court and he doesn't put out competitively. No one can make you play if you don't want to play.
College coaches want to power the ball inside, they want (their post players) to power the ball up, but no one can shoot from that 15-foot area anymore.
But when I did it (the triple-double), I didn't even know it until someone told me.
Actually, Magic and the Lakers beat Philadelphia for Magic's first NBA Championship.
I don't know hardly any of the players who have the in-between game like me, who can go to any position on the court.
But I think the image that's thrown out on television is a bad image. Because you see players who want to imitate hip-hop stars. And the NBA is taking advantage of the situation.
But if people are buying the products, naturally they're gonna use them.
They should have a rule: in order to be a sportswriter, you have to have played that sport, at some level; high school, college, junior college, somewhere. Or, you should have had to have been around the game for a long time.
This is where young players today want to land. They want to be NBA players because of the money.
We're all Americans trying to compete. Magic was competing for his team and Larry for his team.
When I started playing, I wasn't fast, I was gangly, my jumpshot was terrible.
The players have no real self-esteem when it comes to putting the best image out there in a real competitive fashion.