Ranking the Top 5 point guards in NBA History

4 - Oscar Robertson

Oscar Robertson (L) with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in 2018

Championships: 1

Career averages: 25.7 PPG, 7.5 RPG, 9.5 APG, 1.1 SPG, 0.1 BPG

Achievements: 1963-1964 MVP, 12x All-Star, 11x All-NBA Selection, 1960-1961 Rookie of the Year, Hall of Famer

Oscar Robertson played his basketball in the formative years of the NBA. He was drafted by the Cincinnati Royals (now Sacramento Kings) in 1960. He was the first player in the NBA to average a triple-double (10 points per game, 10 rebounds per game, 10 assists per game) over the course of a season.

Robertson was a guard and it was traditionally the job of the big men to catch the rebounds. The fact that Robertson was able to go up against the big men and come away with so many rebounds left many surprised.

Robertson had only one triple-double season, but he came close many times. The closest was in the 1963-64 season when he averaged 31.4 points per game, 11 assists per game and 9.9 rebounds per game.

Robertson joined the Milwaukee Bucks at the start of 1970-71. There, alongside NBA legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (then known as Lew Alcindor), he won his first and only NBA title.

Robertson was voted among the top 50 NBA Basketball players ever in 1996 and is an inductee of the NBA Hall of Fame.