But the players, the owners and the game won because Robertson demanded more. His fight delayed the merger of the NBA and the ABA for six years, and the 1976 settlement resulted in the Oscar ...

Ku Klux Klan, the infamous white supremacist, war-fight terrorist, and hate group, once threatened to shoot Oscar Robertson if he dared to play. The legendary point guard shared the story during ...

Deep down, underneath that rugged Oscar Robertson veneer that ... didn’t want to happen,” Robertson said of the free agency fight that began the shift toward players gaining more power.

This came just months after he filed what became known as the “Oscar Robertson Suit.” As the NBPA president, he led the fight against the NBA’s proposed merger with the American Basketball ...

Later that summer, the biggest advocate for player rights, Oscar Robertson ... such gesture by any of the professional sports. Robertson’s fight could be viewed as similar to King’s on ...

There was a time when NBA legend Oscar Robertson had an altercation with the hate group KKK back when he was still in college. During his time, black professional athletes weren't safe from racism ...

For Oscar Robertson, it was free agency. Cousy, Heinsohn and Robertson, erstwhile team-sport labor activists, seem to think they had the right to fight for the issues of their day but that Michael ...

Adapted from THE REAL HOOSIERS: Crispus Attucks High School, Oscar Robertson and the Hidden History of Hoops by Jack McCallum. Copyright © 2024 by the author and ...

An Indiana Farm Bureau commercial in the mid-1980s depicted a young Oscar Robertson running around outside in his neighborhood, pretending to shoot a basketball with an old tin can. The commercial ...