Oscar Robertson’s records were once considered to be among sport’s unbreakable records. The Oklahoma City Thunder guard just changed that
Fifty-five years ago when Oscar Robertson set his record for triple-doubles in a season while playing for the Cincinnati Royals, there was no special ceremony or blowout media coverage. The term “triple-double” did not exist at the time and didn’t enter the basketball lexicon until years later, its mainstream emergence aided in 1992 by a Los Angeles-based rapper who happened to notch one on the playground one good and sunny day.
Not only was there not intense coverage of the statistical mark in 1962, Robertson didn’t even know he had achieved anything remarkable or historic at the time. “Not at all,” he told the Cincinnati Enquirer near the 50th anniversary of his feat in 2012. “I didn’t know anything about it forever, to be honest.”
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