In contrast to many other boys who preferred to play baseball, he was drawn to basketball because it was 'a poor kids' game.' Because his family could not afford a basketball, he learned how to shoot by tossing tennis balls and rags bound with rubber bands into a peach basket behind his family's home. Robertson was born in poverty and grew up in a segregated housing project in Indianapolis. 5.2 Milwaukee Bucks and the 'Oscar Robertson suit'.The landmark NBA antitrust suit, named after the then-president of the NBA Players' Association, led to an extensive reform of the league's strict free agency and draft rules and, subsequently, to higher salaries for all players. Robertson was also an integral part of the Oscar Robertson suit of 1970. The United States Basketball Writers Association renamed their college Player of the Year Award the Oscar Robertson Trophy in his honor in 1998, and he was one of five people chosen to represent the inaugural National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame class in 2006. įor his outstanding achievements, Robertson was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1980, and was voted one of the 50 Greatest Players in NBA History in 1996. His playing career, especially during high school and college, was plagued by racism. He was a key player on the team which brought the Bucks their only NBA title in the 1970-71 NBA season. He is the only player in NBA history to average a triple-double for a season. The 6-foot-5, 220-pound Robertson played the shooting guard/ point guard position, and was a twelve-time All-Star, eleven-time member of the All-NBA Team, and one-time winner of the MVP award in fourteen professional seasons. Oscar Palmer Robertson (born November 24, 1938), nicknamed ' The Big O', is an American retired basketball player with the Cincinnati Royals and Milwaukee Bucks of the NBA. 3× Consensus NCAA All-America First Team (– 1960).3× Sporting News College Player of the Year (1958–1960).2× USBWA College Player of the Year (1959, 1960).3× UPI College Player of the Year ( 1958–1960).2× Helms Foundation College Player of the Year (1959, 1960).

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