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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.
Oscar Robertson
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Oscar Robertson
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: November 24
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Oscar Palmer Robertson
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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.
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People say that, but I think the NBA was bigger than Larry Bird and Magic Johnson.
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We're all Americans trying to compete. Magic was competing for his team and Larry for his team.
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I played when I played, and played, I think, against the greatest players in the greatest time in the history of basketball.
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You have to teach now - tell a kid how to box out, tell him how to pass, teach him footwork. Players don't understand that anymore.
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I think no one has written a history of the great coaches who were around 30 to 40 years ago who taught the fundamentals.
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But when I did it (the triple-double), I didn't even know it until someone told me.
Oscar Robertson
But I like to think an athlete is an athlete.
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Now, I guess, people want stars. People are trying to invent stars.
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The Olympics were great, because you had to make the team, and then go to the games. Now, I don't know, these guys today don't want to do anything like that.
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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.
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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.
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But if people are buying the products, naturally they're gonna use them.
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Look, I think you should promote the game, but I think you should make it what it ought to be. Not some kind of a side-show.
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People will think there are no other great ballplayers. Look at Garnett. Look at Duncan, Shaq, Kobe. Look at the players with Sacramento. The have a really good basketball team.
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It's a sad commentary when I have to say that sometimes in our country we are real sensitive to race.
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You've got to learn the footwork, the positioning, how to box out, how to pass, how to shoot your free throws. All these things are necessary, not to be the No. 1 player in the world, but maybe you can play against him.
Oscar Robertson
When I started playing, I wasn't fast, I was gangly, my jumpshot was terrible.
Oscar Robertson
I think that everyone should be able to dribble. Everyone should be able to pass. Otherwise, why are you out there?
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When you play against different people from all walks of life you can't do the same thing against every player defensively or offensively. You have to change up the way you go at a player.
Oscar Robertson
