Oscar Robertson is 80 now but the statue that is given annually in his honor by the U.S. Basketball Writers Association for their National Player of the Year award is made in the image of this iconic photograph and as much as any image can, it shows how far ahead of his age he was.
So to us it’s striking that he would sit with Zion Williamson as he got his award, one prodigy aged and gray haired but obviously still vital, the other young and twitchy.
You see them together and you kind of get the idea that Robertson, retired for decades, wants to take his measure, that he’d like to get Williamson out on the court and show him a thing or two.