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
Basketball wasn't what it is today, ... Being brought up in the ghetto, my parents were told, long before I came along, that education was the way out.
I've got a system in place where the university gets a lot of money from me, especially when I die, ... I will still help the basketball program, too.
Every time you score it's an assist now. But when I played you had to be going to the basket on the dribble. So it's easy to get the assists, but the rebounds are the toughest things to get night in and night out.
Basketball is basketball.
Just fundamental things - I played guard and I played forward, so you get into a position where you are pivoting out on the court.
I was taught to play that way when I was in high school and even before I got to high school.
It's a sad commentary when I have to say that sometimes in our country we are real sensitive to race.
I'm sorry that the young athletes in basketball will not get the chance to play (in the Olympics) anymore, and live that dream.
If you're a basketball player, you've got to shoot.
I'd like to think that the nature of the two teams - Boston being a championship team over the years and the Lakers, same thing - was a lot bigger than Larry Bird or Magic Johnson.
I think that teaching coaches are the norm now.
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 played on an all-black high school team and we didn't want people saying that we were clowns.
But I like to think an athlete is an athlete.