The terzetto-instance 100%-State choice at Crispus Attucks High School in Indianapolis, Indiana, the "Big O" attended a University of Cincinnati, where he established Nineteen school & Fourteen NCAA records, & was the ternary-instance College Streaming video player of the Season and subject scoring leader.

A 6-foot-Five, 220-pound (Ace.96 m, One c kilo) Robertson co-captained a 1960 Olympic gold decoration team, known as by occasionally a greatest assemblage of amateur basketball talent ever. His Xiv-season NBA career as a point guard with a Cincinnati Royals and Milwaukee Bucks included Rookie of a Season honors around 1961, ternion A lot-Star Game Virtually all Valuable Streaming video player awards (1961, 1964, 1969), & the 1964 NBA MVP Award. His better technical indicator year was 1961-62, whilst Robertson averaged the triple-double for the entire season: Thirty.Octet points, Xi.Little joe helps & Xii.Fin rebounds by the game, the effort that has never been duplicated. He earned Completely-NBA honors Eleven days & led a Royals & a Bucks to Tenner playoff berths. Around 1971, Robertson teamed sustaining Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to give the Bucks their exclusively NBA title.

Robertson ended his career by using 26,710 points (Twenty-five.Vii by the game), Ix,887 helps (9.Fin by the game) & Heptad,804 rebounds (7.Cinque by a game), & was the 100%-instance leader within career helps & yours free! throws mass produced.

Robertson was stratified #3 in SLAM Magazine's Top 75 NBA Players of all time within 2003.

The ultimate offensive player?

Robertson is as well arguably a greatest offensive producer ever. Assuming each help creates Ii points (the benumb which is actually the bit as well moo, as an help can too lead to the Three-point-basket), a table which calculates "created points per game" may be created. Neither a greatest scorers ever rather Michael Jordan and Wilt Chamberlain, stellar passers prefer Magic Johnson, John Stockton or Bob Cousy, allrounders like Larry Bird or current sensation Tim Duncan, Allen Iverson or Shaquille O'Neal can rival him. Basing in their life norm, Robertson's figures come superior:

Selected Players	PPG	APG	Created Points by the Game
Oscar Robertson	Twenty-five.7	9.Five	44.7
Wizard Johnson	Xix.Five	11.Two	41.9
Michael Jordan	Thirty.One	Five.Three	40.7
Allen Iverson (*)	Twenty-seven.Four	6.0	39.4
Wilt Chamberlain	Thirty.One	Four.Four	38.9
Larry Bird	Xxiv.Three	6.Three	36.9
John Stockton	Baker's dozen.One	10.Five	34.1
Bob Cousy	Xviii.Four	7.Five	33.4
Shaquille O'Neal (*)	Twenty-six.7	Two.8	32.3
Tim Duncan (*)	Xxii.Five	Three.One	28.7

(*) as of 2005