CLEVELAND, Ohio - Before LeBron James dominated on any court he took a shot from, before Michael Jordan laced up and soared, before Bird and Magic's hardcourt duels, there was Oscar Robertson.
It was Robertson who, along with guys like Wilt Chamberlain and Bill Russell, who set the tone, who didn't just star but paved the way.
Robertson would go from famed Crispus Attucks High School (Trivia: The now-famous David-Goliath saga played out in the 1986 movie "Hoosiers" is really Milan beating Crispus Attucks in 1954) in Indianapolis to the University of Cincinnati to the NBA.