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Game state source: whynba · Retrieved Oct 9, 6:37 pm EDTNBA legend. Named to the NBA 75th Anniversary Team and inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. Biography, honors and career statistics below.
Oscar Robertson
Career at a glance
Oscar Robertson played 14 NBA regular seasons between 1960 and 1974, appearing in 1,040 games and averaging 25.7 points, 7.5 rebounds and 9.5 assists per game. He played for 2 teams: Cincinnati (1960–70, 752 games), Milwaukee (1970–74, 288 games). His best scoring season was 1963–64 with Cincinnati: 31.4 points per game over 79 games.
He rebounded best in 1961–62 at 12.5 per game. The season table marks him as the league leader in assists 7 times, scoring once. Championship season: 1970–71 (Milwaukee).
In the playoffs he appeared in 10 postseason runs (86 games, 22.2 points per game). Multiplying each season’s games by its scoring average gives roughly 26,700 regular-season points (an estimate from per-game figures, not an official total). Among the 404 players with at least 200 NBA games profiled on whynba, Robertson ranks No. 10 in points per game, No. 4 in assists per game.
whynba analysis of the season-by-season statistics below (Wikipedia revision, CC BY-SA 4.0). Totals are estimates from per-game averages.
About Oscar Robertson
Oscar Palmer Robertson (born November 24, 1938), nicknamed "the Big O", is an American former professional basketball player who played for the Cincinnati Royals and Milwaukee Bucks in the National Basketball Association (NBA). As a 12-time All-Star, 11-time member of the All-NBA Team, and winner of the 1964 MVP, Robertson is considered to be one of the greatest point guards of all time. In 1962, he became the first player in NBA history to average a triple-double for a season (the only player in history besides Russell Westbrook and Nikola Jokić). In the 1970–71 NBA season, he was a key player on the team that brought the Bucks their first NBA title. 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 and president of the National Basketball Players Association. Also in 1980, Robertson was named to the NBA 35th Anniversary Team. He was again voted as one of the 50 Greatest Players in NBA History in 1996. The United States Basketball Writers Association (USBWA) 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. In October 2021, Robertson was honored as one of the league's greatest players of all time by being named to the NBA 75th Anniversary Team.
Robertson was also an integral part of Robertson v. National Basketball Ass'n of 1970. The landmark NBA antitrust suit, which was filed when Robertson was the 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. He was inducted into the FIBA Hall of Fame in 2009.
- Born
- November 24, 1938 (age 87) Charlotte, Tennessee, U.S.
- Listed height
- 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m)
- Listed weight
- 205 lb (93 kg)
- Position
- Point guard
- High school
- Crispus Attucks (Indianapolis, Indiana)
- College
- Cincinnati (1957–1960)
- NBA draft
- 1960: territorial pick
- Playing career
- 1960–1974
Career highlights and awards
- NBA champion (1971)
- NBA Most Valuable Player (1964)
- 12× NBA All-Star (1961–1972)
- 3× NBA All-Star Game MVP (1961, 1964, 1969)
- 9× All-NBA First Team (1961–1969)
- 2× All-NBA Second Team (1970, 1971)
- NBA Rookie of the Year (1961)
- 6× NBA assists leader (1961, 1962, 1964–1966, 1969)
- NBA anniversary team (35th, 50th, 75th)
- No. 14 retired by Sacramento Kings
- No. 1 retired by Milwaukee Bucks
- 3× National college player of the year (1958–1960)
- 3× Consensus first-team All-American (1958–1960)
- 3× NCAA scoring champion (1958–1960)
- 3× First-team All-MVC (1958–1960)
- No. 12 retired by Cincinnati Bearcats
- Mr. Basketball USA (1956)
- Indiana Mr. Basketball (1956)
- Arthur Ashe Courage Award (2025)
Career statistics
| Year | Team | GP | GS | MPG | FG% | FT% | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | PPG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960–61 | Cincinnati | 71 | 42.7 | .473 | .822 | 10.1 | 9.7* | 30.5 | |||
| 1961–62 | Cincinnati | 79 | 44.3 | .478 | .803 | 12.5 | 11.4* | 30.8 | |||
| 1962–63 | Cincinnati | 80* | 44.0 | .518 | .810 | 10.4 | 9.5 | 28.3 | |||
| 1963–64 | Cincinnati | 79 | 45.1 | .483 | .853* | 9.9 | 11.0* | 31.4 | |||
| 1964–65 | Cincinnati | 75 | 45.6* | .480 | .839 | 9.0 | 11.5* | 30.4 | |||
| 1965–66 | Cincinnati | 76 | 46.0 | .475 | .842 | 7.7 | 11.1* | 31.3 | |||
| 1966–67 | Cincinnati | 79 | 43.9 | .493 | .873 | 6.2 | 10.7 | 30.5 | |||
| 1967–68 | Cincinnati | 65 | 42.5 | .500 | .873* | 6.0 | 9.7* | 29.2* | |||
| 1968–69 | Cincinnati | 79 | 43.8 | .486 | .838 | 6.4 | 9.8* | 24.7 | |||
| 1969–70 | Cincinnati | 69 | 41.5 | .511 | .809 | 6.1 | 8.1 | 25.3 | |||
| 1970–71† | Milwaukee | 81 | 39.4 | .496 | .850 | 5.7 | 8.2 | 19.4 | |||
| 1971–72 | Milwaukee | 64 | 37.3 | .472 | .836 | 5.0 | 7.7 | 17.4 | |||
| 1972–73 | Milwaukee | 73 | 37.5 | .454 | .847 | 4.9 | 7.5 | 15.5 | |||
| 1973–74 | Milwaukee | 70 | 35.4 | .438 | .835 | 4.0 | 6.4 | 1.1 | .1 | 12.7 | |
| Career | 1,040 | 42.2 | .485 | .838 | 7.5 | 9.5 | 1.1 | .1 | 25.7 | ||
| All-Star | 12 | 10 | 31.7 | .512 | .714 | 5.8 | 6.8 | 20.5 |
| Year | Team | GP | MPG | FG% | FT% | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | PPG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1962 | Cincinnati | 4 | 46.3 | .519 | .795 | 11.0 | 11.0 | 28.8 | ||
| 1963 | Cincinnati | 12 | 47.5 | .470 | .864 | 13.0 | 9.0 | 31.8 | ||
| 1964 | Cincinnati | 10 | 47.1 | .455 | .858 | 8.9 | 8.4 | 29.3 | ||
| 1965 | Cincinnati | 4 | 48.8 | .427 | .923 | 4.8 | 12.0 | 28.0 | ||
| 1966 | Cincinnati | 5 | 44.8 | .408 | .897 | 7.6 | 7.8 | 31.8 | ||
| 1967 | Cincinnati | 4 | 45.8 | .516 | .892 | 4.0 | 11.3 | 24.8 | ||
| 1971† | Milwaukee | 14 | 37.1 | .486 | .754 | 5.0 | 8.9 | 18.3 | ||
| 1972 | Milwaukee | 11 | 34.5 | .407 | .833 | 5.8 | 7.5 | 13.1 | ||
| 1973 | Milwaukee | 6 | 42.7 | .500 | .912 | 4.7 | 7.5 | 21.2 | ||
| 1974 | Milwaukee | 16 | 43.1 | .450 | .846 | 3.4 | 9.3 | .9 | .3 | 14.0 |
| Career | 86 | 42.7 | .460 | .855 | 6.7 | 8.9 | .9 | .3 | 22.2 |
Per-game averages. † won an NBA championship · * led the league · ‡ NBA record (as marked).
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- Height
- 6′ 5″
- Weight
- 205 lb
- Position
- Point guard
- Jersey
- Not listed
- Country
- USA
- School / last affiliation
- Not listed
- Draft year
- Not listed
- Draft pick
- Undrafted / not listed
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