All Things Basketball with GD - 2022-23 Season, Player Spotlight on Oscar Robertson (Crispus Attucks HS, University of Cincinnati, 1960 Olympics, Cincinnati Royals)

Show notes:

Intro (00:00 - 00:42)

Preview of our player spotlight on the great Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (00:43 -01:39)

Early life including his parents moving from the South to a segregated housing projects in the Midwest (01:40 - 03:29)

His time at Crispus Attucks High School in Indianapolis where he won 2 state championships and once had a 45 game winning streak; also an Honor Society student who graduated in the top 10 percent of his class (03:30 - 08:14)

Visits to the campuses of the University of Indiana and the University of Cincinnati respectively; him choosing UCLA as the college he would attend (08:15 - 09:49)

The moments he faced racism during his collegiate career including a notable incident at the University of North Texas in Denton and the death threats he received from the Ku Klux Klan in Georgia (09:50 - 11:56) 

Collegiate basketball career where he excelled on the court, him contemplating joining the Harlem Globetrotters and his internship with an insurance agency of Cincinnati Royals owner Tom Wood (11:57 - 15:59)

Earning his business degree as well as the many other honors he received from the University of Cincinnati post-collegiate career (16:00 - 16:37)

Co-captain of the 1960 Summer Olympic gold medal winning team (16:38 - 18:34)

Drafted as the first overall pick in the 1960 NBA Draft by the Cincinnati Royals as a territorial pick (18:35 - 19:46)

Inaugural rookie campaign in Cincinnati where he made an immediate impact and thus won the Rookie of the Year award as well as the first of many All Star Game appearances as a MVP of that game (19:47 - 21:44)

Second year where he averaged double figures in scoring, rebounding and assists creating the idea of a triple double as well as his first taste of playoff basketball (21:45 - 24:16)

Third and fourth season: two more playoff runs as well as another All Star MVP and his only MVP award in that fourth season; part of a team of players touring overseas which was sanctioned by the US State Department and was coached by Red Auerback (24:17 - 29:30)

Fifth, sixth and seventh season: three early playoff exits; becoming the president of the National Basketball Players Association (29:31 - 33:56)

Eighth and ninth season: two last place finishes (33:57 - 35:44)

A turbulent tenth season: questions about him being a team players grows louder; him suffering a groin injury that caused him to miss 12 games; new coach Bob Cousy trying to move Oscar via trade and thus finding out about the no-trade clause; the clashes between Cousy and Oscar during the season; Cousy making a comeback as a player at age 41 for the last 7 games of the season; Oscar's eventual trade to Milwaukee (35:45 - 39:49)

Filed a class action antitrust lawsuit against the NBA in efforts to allow less restrictive player movement, alter current draft rules and put a halt to the NBA/ABA merger (39:50 - 42:07)

Call to action (42:08 - 43:26)

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