Oscar Schmidt

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Oscar Schmidt
Oscar Schmidt Bezerra
Shooting Guard/Small Forward
Personal information
Born February 16, 1958 (1958-02-16) (age 54)
Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
Nationality Brazilian
Listed height 6 ft 8.75 in (2.05 m)
Listed weight 225 lb (102 kg)
Career information
Pro career 1974–2003
Career history
1974-1978 Palmeiras (Brazil)
1978-1982 Sírio (Brazil)
1982-1983 Caserta (Italy 2nd)
1983-1990 Caserta (Italy 1st)
1990-1991 Pavia (Italy 2nd)
1991-1992 Pavia (Italy 1st)
1992-1993 Pavia (Italy 2nd)
1993-1995 Valladolid (Spain)
1995-1997 Corinthians (Brazil)
1997-1998 Bandeirantes (Brazil)
1998-1999 Barueri (Brazil)
1999-2003 Flamengo (Brazil)
Career highlights and awards
Stats at NBA.com
FIBA Hall of Fame as player
Medal record
Competitor for  Brazil
Men's Basketball
FIBA World Cup
Bronze 1978 Manila National Team

Oscar Daniel Bezerra Schmidt (born February 16, 1958) is a retired Brazilian professional basketball player. He is also known as Oscar Schmidt Bezerra in Spain, where he played for Fórum Valladolid for the 1993-94 and 1994-95 seasons, and simply Oscar, or Mão Santa (Holy Hand), in his homeland. In his prime, he was 2.05 m (6 ft 8¾ in) tall and weighed 102 kg (225 lbs). He was born in Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil.

He is unofficially considered to be the the all-time leading scorer in the history of basketball, with 49,737 career points scored (club play, plus national team play combined).[1]

He was named one of FIBA's 50 Greatest Players in 1991. On August 20, 2010, Schmidt was inducted into the FIBA Hall of Fame, in recognition of his play in international competition.[2]

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[edit] Athletic career

[edit] Club career

While playing with Siro of the Brazilian Basketball League, Schmidt won both the South American Club Championship and the World Club Championship in 1979.

He was drafted by the New Jersey Nets in the sixth round of the 1984 NBA Draft, and had several other opportunities to play in the NBA, but declined them all in order to maintain his "amateur" status and continue to play in Brazil's national team (until 1989, NBA players were not allowed to play for national teams).

Schmidt won the Italian Basketball Cup with Caserta in 1988. He was the top scorer of the Italian Basketball League 7 times (1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1989, 1990, 1992). He also led the Spanish Basketball League in scoring in 1994, while he was a member of Valladolid.

He returned to his native Brazil in 1995, to play once again in the Brazilian Basketball League, and was the league's top scorer 8 times (1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003). He retired on May 26, 2003.

[edit] Brazilian national team

With the Brazilian national basketball team, Schmidt played in five Summer Olympics (the second player to do so after Teófilo Cruz) and was the top scorer in three of them. However, he never went past the quarterfinals. In the 1980 Summer Olympics, he played 7 games and scored 171 points, for a 24.4 average.

He again scored 171 points in 7 games in the 1984 Summer Olympics. His best Olympic performance was the 1988 Summer Olympics. He scored 335 points, for an average of 41.9 points per game.

In 1992, he scored 198 points in 8 games, and in 1996, he scored 219 points in 8 games. In 38 career Olympic basketball games, Schmidt scored a record of 1,094 points, for an average of 28.8 points per game.

He is the all-time career leader in total points scored in the FIBA World Cup, having scored a total of 843 points in 33 games, for a scoring average of 25.5 points per game. He won the bronze medal and made the All-Tournament Team at the 1978 FIBA World Cup, and made the All-Tournament Teams of both the 1986 FIBA World Cup and the 1990 FIBA World Cup, which he also led in scoring, averaging 34.6 points per game.

Schmidt played in the gold-medal match of the 1987 Pan American Games in Indianapolis. The US national team, composed of college players at those games, featured two All-Americans in David Robinson (Hall of Famer) and Danny Manning, two NCAA Championship Final Four MVPs, in Pervis Ellison and Keith Smart, and other future NBA players, such as Rex Chapman and Dan Majerle. Brazil faced a 68–54 halftime deficit. Schmidt finished with 46 points, in a 120–115 win.

[edit] Post athletic career

In 2004, Schmidt started his career in management. He was the CEO of "Telemar Rio de Janeiro", a Brazilian team which played for two years and won the "Campeonato Carioca" (Rio de Janeiro Championship) in 2004 and 2005.

In 2006, Schmidt, along with other Brazilian basketball greats such as Paula and Hortência, (another Hall of Famer), led the NLB: Nossa Liga de Basquete ("our basketball league"), an attempted rival to the Brazilian Basketball League. However, the league folded a year later.

[edit] Club teams

[edit] Honours

[edit] Individual

[edit] As a member of club teams

[edit] Brazilian national team

[edit] See also

[edit] References and notes

  1. ^ halloffame.fiba.com Oscar SCHMIDT (2010 Class) Individual Highlights:
  2. ^ "FIBA announces 2010 Hall of Fame Class". FIBA. 2010-08-20. http://www.halloffame.fiba.com/pages/eng/hof/news/p/newsid/42798/arti.html. 

[edit] External links
First round
Second round

FIBA Europe
Krešimir Ćosić • Dražen Dalipagić • Ivo Daneu • Mirza Delibašić • Vlade Divac • Dragan Kićanović • Radivoj Korać • Toni Kukoč • Dražen Petrović • Dino Rađa • Petar Skansi • Zoran Slavnić • Alexander Belov • Sergei Belov • Stepas Butautas • Otar Korkiya • Šarūnas Marčiulionis • Anatoly Myshkin • Modestas Paulauskas • Arvydas Sabonis • Alexander Volkov • Viktor Zubkov • Wayne Brabender • Francisco Buscato • Juan Corbalán • Juan Antonio San Epifanio • Clifford Luyk • Fernando Martín • Emiliano Rodríguez • Pier Marzorati • Massimo Masini • Dino Meneghin • Antonello Riva • Stanislav Kropilák • Ivan Mrázek • Jean-Paul Beugnot • Alain Gilles • Nikos Galis • Georgios Kolokithas • Willy Steveniers • Atanas Golomeev • Ferenc Németh • Miki Berkovich
FIBA Americas
Teófilo Cruz • Ricardo Duarte • Ubiratan Pereira Maciel • Wlamir Marques • Bob Morse • Amaury Pasos • Oscar Schmidt
FIBA Oceania
Andrew Gaze
Inductees

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