• Oscar Robertson is generally considered the greatest all-around player in the history of basketball. In 2000 he was named "Player of the Century" by the National Association of Basketball Coaches.
  
  
• One of the most enduringly popular and respected athletes in the history of sports, an international ambassador for the game of basketball.
  
  
• Only player in NBA history ever to average a "triple double" (double figures in scoring, 30.8 points per game; assists, 11.4 per game; and rebounding, 12.5 per game) for an entire season, 1961-62
  
  
• Averaged a cumulative "triple double" over his first five seasons
  
  
• Alltime NBA leader in career triple-double games with 181 and single-season triple-double games with 41 (1961-62)
  
  
• Holds all-time rebounding records for guards: season, 985 rebounds/12.5 average, 1961-62; career, 7804/7.5 average.
  
  
• First player in history to lead NCAA in scoring three straight years. College career average: 33.8 points.
  
  
• First player in history to win National College Player of the Year honors three times.
  
  
• First player to lead NBA in scoring average (29.2) and assists average (9.7) in same season, 1967-68.
  
  
• First and only guard ever to lead his team in rebounding (Cincinnati Royals, 1961-62).
  
  
• Only player ever to compile 900 rebounds and 900 assists in one season (1961-62).
  
  
• NBA star from 1960-61 to 1973-74: 10 years with Cincinnati Royals, four with Milwaukee Bucks.
  
  
• Led the Bucks to 1971 NBA championship, three additional playoff appearances including NBA finals in 1974; led the Royals to six consecutive playoff appearances, 1962-1967.
  
  
• NBA Most Valuable Player, 1964; NBA Rookie of the Year, 1961.
  
  
• Selected to 12 consecutive NBA All-Star Teams, 1961-1972. All-Star Game MVP 1961, 1964, 1969.
  
  
• Led NBA in assists six seasons, free throw percentage two seasons.
  
  
• Set career record with 9887 assists / 9.5 average per game which stood for 17 years.
  
  
• Seventh among all-time NBA scoring leaders with 26,710 points / 25.7 average.
  
  
• Named one of NBA's 50 greatest players of all time, 1997.
  
  
• Named one of top ten players of the century by Associated Press, 1999.
  
  
• Named one of top five college players ever by Sports Illustrated, 1999.
  
  
• Named one of 50 Greatest Athletes of the Century by ESPN, 1999.
  
  
• National Basketball Hall of Fame, 1979 (first year eligible).
  
  
• President of NBA Players Association, 1965-1974. "The Oscar Robertson Rule," instituted as a result of litigation he initiated through the NBAPA, set the stage for free agency in the NBA.
  
  
• Past President, National Basketball Retired Players Association, 1992-98. One of five founders along with Dave DeBusschere, Dave Bing, Archie Clark and Dave Cowens.
  
  
• Graduated University of Cincinnati, 1960, with B.S. Degree in Business.
  
  
• Named one of the NCAA’s leading student athletes of all time.
  
  
• Three time first team All-American.
  
  
• Led University of Cincinnati to two Final Four appearances, 79-9 record over three years.
  
  
• Co-captain of undefeated 1960 U.S. Olympic Team, perhaps the greatest basketball team ever.
  
  
• Led Indianapolis' Crispus Attucks High School to 45-game winning streak, two consecutive Indiana state championships and 1956 national championship. (Attucks was the first African-American high school to win an Indiana state championship or a national championship.)
  
  
• First team high school All-American, National High School Player of the Year, and Indiana's "Mr. Basketball," in 1956.
  
  
• Graduated Crispus Attucks High School in 1956 in top 10% of his class.
  
  
• Born November 24, 1938, Charlotte, TN; moved with family to Indianapolis, IN at age 4. Current residence: Cincinnati, Ohio.
  
  
• One of the nation's leading small business owners with interests in document management services, specialty chemicals, processed meats, real estate development, banking, and media.
  
  
• Author and publisher of instructional book "The Art of Basketball" (Oscar Robertson Media Ventures, 1998).
  
  
• Author of autobiography, "The Big O: My Life, My Times, My Game" (Rodale Press, 2003).
  
  
• Board member or member at large of numerous philanthropic and civic organizations; national advocate for organ donation on behalf of the National Kidney Foundation.
  
  

Last updated 6/10/08.