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Knuckleheads with Quentin Richardson & Darius Miles

Oscar Robertson

Knuckleheads with Quentin Richardson & Darius Miles

iHeartPodcasts

Comedy, Sports, Arts

5.03.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2021

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

The BIG O is in the building! Oscar Robertson, Mr. Triple Double himself joins this week’s episode of Knuckleheads with Quentin Richardson and Darius Miles. The LEGEND and one the greatest players to ever grace the court talks about everything from being the first Black player at Cincinnati to dominating the league for both the Cincinnati Royals and then the Milwaukee Bucks. The Big O made his imprint not just on basketball but truly on all of sports, tune in!  Having an undefeated, all-Black team and winning the state championship in Indiana [2:50] Going to Cincinnati and making the Final Four [10:08] Knowing he’d be the No. 1 pick in the draft [22:32] Winning the MVP and thoughts on Russell Westbrook’s triple doubles [27:01] Going to the Milwaukee Bucks and playing with Kareem [36:33] About Our Hosts: NBA veterans Quentin Richardson and Darius Miles are lifelong friends and bona fide truth-tellers. Listen as they invite special guests, high-profile athletes, musicians and entertainers to get brutally honest about everything from current events to untold stories from the golden era of sports and culture. Named for the on-court celebration they made wildly popular, this unfiltered, hilarious and surprising podcast is like playing NBA 2K with no fouls. Other places to find Knuckleheads:  Subscribe on Youtube Follow on Instagram Follow on FacebookSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0

It's an honor and pleasure to have you and thank you so so much for coming on the show and

0:06.8

Just thank you like this is a blessing a dream come true

0:10.8

I can't believe I get the opportunity to interview the big old so just thank you again

0:15.7

I mean a cute definitely a really appreciative when you first got to the NBA

0:20.6

Who's the first person to bus show us?

0:23.4

well

0:24.9

Probably didn't practice because a little rougher than we have a lot of guys

0:28.5

We're trying to make the basketball team. It's got real rough. You know, it wasn't anyone busing my rear end

0:35.2

A lot of bumps and grinds, so you have to get used to it

0:37.4

But you know before I played it in Indianapolis in the end and I played against a lot of older guys when I grew up because they played ball

0:43.7

They were like 45 50 years old and and you couldn't call any foul. Yeah, oh, therefore it got me used to

0:49.5

At least the bump and grinding of basketball and in the NBA

0:52.8

So there were a lot of great best Casey Jones was there Jerry Sloan

0:56.7

From Chicago there were a lot of guys who were really good fun on defensive basketball players

1:03.0

But you know you have to become those things, you know, I mean I thought I had a game that I could make us anybody

1:09.0

Yeah, yeah, I remember when I came up I played with older guys and they never gave me I could never call a foul

1:14.9

I could never make a call I could never do nothing I had to play the game

1:19.2

But it made me better though

1:20.5

It made me learn how to play maybe learn how to play without making mistakes

1:24.7

It's much it was definitely a blessing to play with older guys and they can you get that?

1:30.8

Yo, yo, yo, we live on location me and the blackest one still chilling

1:35.8

But today we got some all-time all-time special for y'all man

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