Of course I think with my 14 years in the NBA I never made a million dollars.
"Oscar Palmer Robertson", nicknamed ""The Big O"", is a retired American National Basketball Association player who played for the Sacramento Kings/Cincinnati Royals and Milwaukee Bucks. The , Robertson played the shooting guard/point guard position, and was a 12-time All-Star, 11-time member of the All-NBA Team, and one-time winner of the National Basketball Association Most Valuable Player Award/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 the Bucks their only NBA title in the 1970–71 NBA season. His playing career, especially during high school and college, was plagued by racism.
Robertson is a two-time Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame inductee, having been inducted in 1980 for his individual career, and in 2010 as a member of the 1960 United States men's Olympic basketball team. He also was voted one of the 50 Greatest Players in NBA History in 1996. 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. He was ranked as the 36th best American athlete of the 20th century by ESPN.
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Pete Newell was the Olympic coach and was a fine person. It was a great honor to play on that team, ... Jack McMahon of the Royals was another coach I enjoyed playing for in the NBA and I got the opportunity to play with and against so many great players.
So many kids think that, ... But when you look at the history of players coming out (of college) early, only a handful really make it.
There have been a couple of coaches there, through the years, that I didn't always agree with what was going on, ... Today, a lot of these guys at the university have my cell phone number.
It's a sad day for Bob, but what I don't understand is all these people pulling their (financial) support and things like that, ... There are a lot of things at UC I haven't liked over the years, but I still support the university.
The most important thing is what the returning starters think, ... Can they get themselves together and play basketball? You've got to grow up right now. These things happen in sports.
It's just good to be out here, ... I'm just glad to supply these guys.
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.
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