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interview with oscar robertson and he discusses stats like assists a bit



https://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2018/08/oscar_robertson_reflects_on_nb.html?src=rss

this is from the article itself, which is well worth reading. i saw him play a couple of times late in his career, and he just had incredible court vision even then.

"When I set those records ... I didn't even know it. I didn't know anything about a triple-double or anything like that. So they had to go back into the archives to figure things out.

"Now," he continued, "every time I throw you the ball, you dribble once, twice, and shoot and score, that's an assist. When I played that was not an assist. An assist is a pass that leads directly to a basket."

(For the record, the 6-foot-5 Robertson holds the record for most triple-doubles, at 181. Westbrook has 104; James, 73.)

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