American - Athlete | November 24, 1938 -
I don't blame David Stern because a player gets on the court and he doesn't put out competitively. No one can make you play if you don't want to play.
Oscar Robertson
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I think that basketball players should get the job done no matter how it looks on the screen.
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I think that teaching coaches are the norm now.
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I was taught to play that way when I was in high school and even before I got to high school.
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I'd like to think that the nature of the two teams - Boston being a championship team over the years and the Lakers, same thing - was a lot bigger than Larry Bird or Magic Johnson.
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It's a sad commentary when I have to say that sometimes in our country we are real sensitive to race.
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Now, I guess, people want stars. People are trying to invent stars.
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The Olympics were great, because you had to make the team, and then go to the games. Now, I don't know, these guys today don't want to do anything like that.
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The thing about it is almost everyone could pass that way, but we were kept from doing it by our coaches.
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They should have a rule: in order to be a sportswriter, you have to have played that sport, at some level; high school, college, junior college, somewhere. Or, you should have had to have been around the game for a long time.
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This is where young players today want to land. They want to be NBA players because of the money.
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We're all Americans trying to compete. Magic was competing for his team and Larry for his team.
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