Studyin' at the Old School: Clyde Frazier, Oscar Robertson & Lew Alcindor
I was a decade too late, missed the heyday of these guys playing in the NBA. Except for Alcindor, of course, whom I knew as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Lakers icon of the '80s and '90s. Walt "Clyde" Frazier? Oscar Robertson? Only rumors. Frazier felt more real, though, because he led Southern Illinois University to the 1967 NIT title back when that tournament's prestige rivaled the NCAA's. And a lot of people in my country hometown (30 miles north of SIU) recalled Clyde and those do