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We're all Americans trying to compete. Magic was competing for his team and Larry for his team.

Oscar Robertson

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Oscar Robertson
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: November 24
Basketball Coach
Basketball Player
The Big O
Oscar Palmer Robertson
Basketball
Americans
Magic
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Larry
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People say that, but I think the NBA was bigger than Larry Bird and Magic Johnson.
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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 don't think that players learn how to play any other aspect of the game in high school or college.
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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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The triple-double is just a stat. It's a test of your strength and stamina and playing ability, really.
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When you go into a game on offense, you make a couple moves and see what the defender is going to do. Then you pretty much can figure out what he is going to do against you - whether he carries his hands low or high, whether he is bumping or pushing, those type of things.
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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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Just because it is an All-Star Game doesn't mean that you are playing as efficiently as you should.
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Just fundamental things - I played guard and I played forward, so you get into a position where you are pivoting out on the court.
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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.
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When I started playing, I wasn't fast, I was gangly, my jumpshot was terrible.
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But if people are buying the products, naturally they're gonna use them.
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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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But I like to think an athlete is an athlete.
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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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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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I think that teaching coaches are the norm now.
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I think that basketball players should get the job done no matter how it looks on the screen.
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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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