NBA: Top 5 guards of all time

3. Oscar Robertson; 1960-1974, Cincinnati Royals, Milwaukee Bucks

Career Averages: 25.7 ppg; 7.5 rebounds; 9.5 assists

During the first eight years of his career, “The Big O” had just two seasons, in which he averaged less than 30 PPG. Robertson was a player who managed to stack up the stats like noone else.

He was a 6’5″ Guard, and he averaged a triple double season in the 1961-62 season with 30.8 p/12.5 /11.4 a. He also came close to averaging triple-doubles in four other seasons.

One of the biggest contributions he made to the game wasn’t one he made as a player. It was one as an activist, as a fighter for the players. In 1970, the players filed an anti-trust suit, named the Oscar Robertson suit, led to an extensive reform of the league’s strict free agency and draft rules and, subsequently, to higher salaries for all players.

Robertson was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1980.