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 Joe Lapchick Joins the Cleveland Rosenblums
Joe Lapchick Joins the Cleveland Rosenblums
George Vecsey once wrote a book called Pro Basketball Champions. Scholastic Book Services published this wonderful set of player profiles in 1970 for sixty cents (USD). Thirty-eight years later, through the magic of eBay, the book in which Steven Robert...
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 KJ - New Mayor of Sacramento
KJ - New Mayor of Sacramento
In a historic night for America, Kevin Johnson became the first African-American mayor of Sacramento. Also, some highlights of KJ as a Phoenix Sun in honor of his accomplishment.
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 Joe Axelson, Former NBA Exec That Helped Move Kings, Dead at Age 80
Joe Axelson, Former NBA Exec That Helped Move Kings, Dead at Age 80
Joe Axelson , the former front office executive and general manager, first for the Cincinnati Royals, and then remained with the franchise when it moved to Kansas City-Omaha, where they became the Kings, and then traveled to the West Coast to Sacramento, has died at the age of 80. Cause of death has not yet been determined. As reported by The AP : Over his career with the Royals-Kings ...
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 40+ Against the Bulls and ECPOTW - LeBron James
40+ Against the Bulls and ECPOTW - LeBron James
LeBron is the Eastern Conference Player of the Century. OK, Week. In four games during the week, James averaged an NBA-high 34.5 points on .469 shooting and 9.8 rebounds in 37.1 minutes per game. James has now won the award...
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 1984 Old-Timers Game highlights (video)
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1984 Old-Timers Game highlights (video)
1984 Old-Timers Game highlights with Johnny "Red" Kerr, Rick Barry, John Havlicek, Pistol Pete Maravich, Oscar Robertson, Earl Monroe, Tom Heinsohn, Nate Thu...
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Julius Erving's All-Time Starting Five
Julius Erving told USA TODAY's Chris Colston that his all-time starting five "was, is, and always will be Oscar Robertson, Jerry West, Elgin Baylor, Wilt Chamberlain and Bill Russell, with Connie Hawkins coming off the bench as my sixth man to play guard, forward and center."
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LeBron's Triple Doubles Turn Back the Clock to 1989
LeBron James is able to score 30-plus points while still putting up triple double numbers, a skill set that is very rare for a perimeter player; only Oscar Robertson and Michael Jordan did this on a consistent basis.
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 Blackballed
Blackballed
This NBA Finals has been chased by history. There’s Kobe Bryant, and, inevitably, there are the comparisons with Michael Jordan and Bryant’s hunt for Jordan’s legacy. But as I watch these great players and recall their incredible basketball ancestors, I wish everyone could have seen more of the player whom I consider the most perfect in NBA history, Oscar Robertson.
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Where Does Tony Parker Rightfully Rank Among NBA Point Guards?
Tony Parker's 55 points and 10 assists in a 129-125 double overtime San Antonio victory over Minnesota are significant for reasons beyond the fact that Michael Jordan and Oscar Robertson are the only other players in NBA history to reach those point and assist totals in the same game.
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Smooth All-Around Performance by Paul Lifts Hornets Over Heat
Chris Paul has opened the season with six straight games with at least 20 points and 10 assists, breaking the previous record of five set by Oscar Robertson in 1968. Frankly, I'm not sure what to make of Paul's record, considering that Robertson averaged better than 30-10-10 over a five year span.
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Which All-Time Great Influenced Magic Johnson's Game the Most?
Video proof that Magic's game was more Earl Monroe than Oscar Robertson.
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Something to Cheer About: Press Info
Poster Art: view | download Title Treatment: view | download Team Photo: view | download Oscar Robertson 1: view | download Oscar Robertson 2: view | download Oscar Robertson 3: view | download
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NBA.com: Oscar Robertson Summary
Oscar Robertson, the "Big O," is the player against whom all others labeled "all-around" are judged, and he may remain the standard forever. Statistically, one need look no further than the numbers Robertson put up in 1961-62, just his second year in ...
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 SI.com - More Sports - The  best athletes by number  - Thursday July 5, 2007 11:50AM
SI.com - More Sports - The best athletes by number - Thursday July 5, 2007 11:50AM
In sports, there's only one No. 99 ( Wayne Gretzky ) and No. 66 ( Mario Lemieux ), but who's number one among those who have actually worn No. 1? Is it 12-time NBA All-Star Oscar Robertson or is it Warren Moon , the only player to be enshrined by both ...
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One More Dying Quail: Mr. Indiana And The NBA
A question on Yahoo! Answers recently asked which of Indiana s Mr. Basketball recipients enjoyed the best professional career. The best answer given was The Big O , Oscar Robertson, the 6 5 guard who won the award in 1956 and eventually played his way...
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The Pantheon: An Examination of Greatness, Part II
Wilt Chamberlain and Oscar Robertson are without question two of the greatest basketball players of all-time. Their careers are excellent examples of both peak value and durability: the numbers that they put up when they were at their best are incredible and they sustained a high level of production for a long period of time. This article takes a detailed look at their accomplishments.
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ROLE WORTHY OF OSCAR
THE last time I spoke to Wilt Chamberlain, 13 months before he died on Oct. 12, 1999, out of nowhere he appealed: "Don't ever let people forget how good we were." Oscar Robertson was one of those unforgettable, too-good-to-be-true players. While his...
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jdhastings.com
I'm putting up some photos my dad just recently scanned from when he had tickets under the basket in the forum during the 1973 season. There's some photos from a game v. Oscar Robertson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and the Milwaulkee Bucks, and a few more ...
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High Fives: 'Big O' leads the list for Kings franchise
Oscar Robertson heads the list of the greatest players in Kings franchise history, including the Sacramento, Kansas City-Omaha, ...
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 The Drill: Q&A with Oscar Robertson
The Drill: Q&A with Oscar Robertson
with Oscar Robertson Posted: March 28, 2008 Oscar Robertson isn't shy about telling you what he thinks. So when the spry 69-year-old Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame guard sat down at a news event Friday morning at the Bradley Center, ...

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