Oscar Daniel Bezerra Schmidt (born February 16, 1958) is a retired Brazilian professional

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player. He is also commonly known as Oscar Schmidt in

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, 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. Schmidt primarily played the

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and

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position, was 2.06 m (6 ft 9 in) tall and weighed 109 kg (240 lbs). He was born in

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, Brazil. He is considered to be the all-time leading scorer in the history of basketball, with 49,737 career points scored (pro

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league play, plus senior Brazilian national team play combined). He is the record holder for the longest career span of a professional basketball player at 29 years. He is also the top scorer in the history of the Summer Olympic Games, and the top scorer in the history of the FIBA World Cup. He was named one of

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in 1991. He received the

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in 1997. On August 20, 2010, Schmidt became a FIBA Hall of Fame player, in recognition of his play in international competitions. On September 8, 2013, Schmidt was inducted into the

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. He was inducted into the

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in 2017.

Youth club career

Schmidt played youth

basketball in the

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s of S.E. Palmeiras and Mackenzie College. With Palmeiras' youth teams, he scored 2,114 points in 85 games, for a scoring average of 24.9 points per game. With Mackenzie's youth teams, he scored 1,332 points in 36 games, for a scoring average of 37.0 points per game.

Professional career

Brazil

Schmidt began his professional club career in 1974, at the age of 16, with the Brazilian Championship club S.E. Palmeiras. As a member of Palmeiras, he won the

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in 1974, and the Brazilian Championship in 1977. In 1978, he moved to the Brazilian club E.C. Sírio. As a member of Sírio, Schmidt won the São Paulo State Championship in both 1978 and 1979, and the Brazilian Championship in 1979. With Sírio, he also won the

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, and the

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title in 1979. He scored 42 points in the

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's Final against the Yugoslav First Federal League club Bosna Sarajevo. Schmidt was the top scorer of the Brazilian Championship in both 1979 and 1980. In 1982, Schmidt joined the Brazilian club América do Rio. However, he only stayed with the club for a brief amount of time.

JuveCaserta

For the 1982–83 season, Schmidt joined the Italian 2nd Division club

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. With JuveCaserta, he played in the first division level

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, for the first time in the 1983–84 season. That same season, Schmidt played in a Pan-European club competition for the first time, as he also played in Europe's third-tier level

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's 1983–84 season. Schmidt played in Europe's 2nd-tier level competition, the

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(later renamed to

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), for the first time, in the 1984–85 season. With JuveCaserta, he won the

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title in 1988. In the European-wide secondary level

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's Final, Schmidt scored 44 points against the Spanish club

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. However, Real Madrid's star player

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, scored 62 points in the same game, and JuveCaserta lost the game, by a score of 117–113. Schmidt led the Italian top division in scoring six times, while he was a member of JuveCaserta (1983–84, 1984–85, 1985–86, 1986–87, 1988–89, and 1989–90 seasons). JuveCaserta eventually retired Schmidt's #18 jersey.

Pavia

In 1990, Schmidt joined the Italian 2nd Division club

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. With Pavia, Schmidt led the Italian 2nd Division in scoring, in both the 1990–91 and 1992–93 seasons. With Pavia, he also led the first division Italian League in scoring, during the 1991–92 season. He was also a member of the

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in 1991. As a member of Pavia, Schmidt also had his highest scoring single game in the top division Italian League, as he scored 66 points in a 1991–92 season game versus

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, on 30 November 1991.Record individuali per Oscar Schmidt Più punti segnati .
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, Schmidt earned a fan in future

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star

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. At that time, Bryant was a young child that was living in Italy, while his father,

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, played professional basketball in the country. Bryant called Schmidt one of his childhood idols, and also stated that Schmidt could have been one of the greatest players in the NBA, if he had played in the league. Overall during his club career in Italy, Schmidt was the Top Scorer of the Italian First Division seven times (1983–84, 1984–85, 1985–86, 1986–87, 1988–89, 1989–90, and 1991–92 seasons). In 2017, Schmidt was inducted into the

Valladolid

In 1993, Schmidt joined the

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club

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. With Valladolid, Schmidt was the Spanish league's top scorer in the 1993–94 season, with a scoring average of 33.3 points per game, in 33 games played (regular season and playoffs). On 19 March 1994, Schmidt made 11 3-point field goals, in a Spanish League game against

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. Schmidt also spent the 1994–95 season with Valladolid. In that season, he averaged 24.0 points per game, in 38 games played. His single-game scoring high in the Spanish League, was in a game that season versus

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, in which he scored 47 points, and made all 8 of his 3-point field goal attempts. In two seasons in the Spanish ACB, Schmidt scored a total of 2,009 points in 71 games played (regular season and playoffs), for a scoring average of 28.3 points per game.Historial estadístico Schmidt, Oscar .
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Return to Brazil

Schmidt returned to his native Brazil in 1995, to once again play in the

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. He was a member of S.C. Corinthians Paulista, from 1995 to 1997. He then played with Grêmio Barueri Bandeirantes / Mackenzie, from 1997 to 1999, and he finished his club career with C.R. Flamengo, where he played from 1999 to 2003. With Corinthians Paulista, he won the Brazilian Championship in 1996. As a member of Grêmio Barueri Bandeirantes, he won the

in 1998. With Grêmio Barueri Bandeirantes, Schmidt, at the age of 39, scored 74 points in a São Paulo State Championship game on 28 November 1997.Oscar Schmidt bate recorde de pontos num só jogo .
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in 1999 and 2002. Flamengo eventually retired his #14 jersey. Schmidt was the Brazilian Championship's top scorer in each of his last eight seasons playing in the competition (1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003). That was in addition to the two times that he had previously led the same competition in scoring, in 1979 and 1980. Schmidt retired from his club basketball playing career on May 26, 2003, at the age of 45. During his club playing career, he scored a total of 42,044 points, in 1,289 games played, for a career scoring average of 32.6 points per game. However, those totals do not include all of the games that he played in during his pro club career, as the data for some of the national cup games and Pan-European games that he played in Europe are not available.

NBA draft rights

Schmidt was drafted by the

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in the sixth round of the

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, and he played with them in their 1984 NBA training camp and preseason. However, he declined the club's offer of a fully guaranteed contract, because it was for considerably less money than he made at the time playing in Italy, and also because to accept the team's contract offer would have meant that he could no longer represent the senior Brazilian national team. That was because until 1989, NBA players were not allowed to play for national teams.

National team career

Junior national team

Schmidt played in the youth systems of Brazil's national federation program. He played in 15 games with the junior selection of

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, with which he scored 393 points in 15 games, for a scoring average of 26.2 points per game. He also played in 31 games with Brazil's national junior selection, in which he scored a total of 569 points, for a scoring average of 18.4 points per game.

Senior national team

With the senior Brazil national team, Schmidt played in five

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(he was the second player to do so after

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) and was the top scorer in three of them. However, he never went past the tournament's quarterfinals. In the

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, he played in seven games and scored 169 points, for a 24.1 average. He again scored 169 points in seven games in the

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. His best Olympic performance was the

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. At that tournament, he scored 338 points, for an average of 42.3 points per game. In

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, he scored 198 points in eight games, and in

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, he scored 219 points in 8 games. In 38 career Olympic basketball games, Schmidt scored a record of 1,093 points, for an average of 28.8 points per game. Schmidt is also the all-time career leader in total points scored in the

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, 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 he also made the All-Tournament Teams of both the

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and the

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, which he also led in scoring, with an average of 34.6 points per game. Schmidt played in the gold-medal match of the

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, which was held in

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. The US national team, which was composed of NCAA Division I

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players at those games, featured two

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( Hall of Fame member) and

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, two

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Final Four MVPs, in

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and

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, and other future

players, such as

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and

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. Brazil faced a 68–54 halftime deficit. However, Schmidt finished the game with 46 points, in a 120–115 win for Brazil. In 1996, at the age of 38, Schmidt retired from playing with the senior Brazilian national team as its all-time leading scorer. While representing Brazil, he scored a total of 7,693 points in 326 games played, for a career scoring average of 23.6 points per game. In 1997, Schmidt was given the

award.

Post-athletic career

In 2004, Schmidt started his career in management. He was the CEO of "Telemar Rio de Janeiro", a Brazilian professional basketball team which won the "Campeonato Carioca" (

) in 2004, and the Brazilian Championship in 2005. In 2006, Schmidt, along with other Brazilian basketball greats such as Paula and Hortência, (another Hall of Fame member), led the ''NLB: Nossa Liga de Basquete'' ("our basketball league"), an attempted rival to the

. However, the league folded a year later.

Personal life

On May 13, 2013, Schmidt had

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to excise a

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. At first, nobody knew about it except for his family. The

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found out about the disease fifteen days after the surgery, at a dinner celebrating the 50th anniversary of the two-time FIBA World Champion senior men's Brazilian National Team. Schmidt did not appear at the event, as he was recuperating from daily

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sessions. The disease was later put into remission. In 2016, Schmidt was one of the guests at the

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of the

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, alongside other Brazilian celebrities, such as model

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, actor

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, and singer

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, among others.

Senior club teams

* S.E. Palmeiras:

: 1974–78 * E.C. Sírio: Brazilian Basketball Championship: 1978–82 * América do Rio: Brazilian Basketball Championship: 1982 *

: Italian Second Division: 1982–83 * JuveCaserta:

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: 1983–90 *

: Italian Second Division: 1990–91 * Pavia: Italian Basketball League: 1991–92 * Pavia: Italian Second Division: 1992–93 *

: Spanish Basketball League: 1993–95 * S.C. Corinthians Paulista: Brazilian Basketball Championship: 1995–97 * Bandeirantes / Mackenzie: Brazilian Basketball Championship: 1997–99 * C.R. Flamengo: Brazilian Basketball Championship: 1999–03

Honors and awards

Summer Olympics Records

* All-time leading points scorer: 1,093 points * Most total points scored in a tournament: 338 points * Highest per game scoring average in a tournament: 42.3 points per game * Most points scored in a single game: 55 points * Oldest player to score 40 or more points in a single game: 38 years and 155 days (scored 45 points) * Tied for most tournament appearances by a men's basketball player: 5 (tied with

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, and Juan Carlos Navarro)

Individual

* Considered

's unofficial all-time leader in points scored: ** 49,737 career total points scored in 1,615 games played (30.8 points per game): ** 42,044 career points scored in 1,289 professional

games played (32.6 points per game). ** 7,693 points scored in 326 Brazilian national team games played (23.6 points per game). * Brazilian national team's all-time leading scorerOscar Schmidt: história, títulos e recordes do Mão Santa .
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's all-time leader in points scored: ** 906 career points scored in 34 games played (27.7 points per game) *

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: All-Tournament Team *

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: All-Tournament Team *

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: All-Tournament Team * 1990 FIBA World Championship's Top Scorer (34.6 points per game) * Summer Olympics's all-time leader in points scored: ** 1,093 career points scored – 28.8 points per game * 3×

Top Scorer: **

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– 42.3 points per game (the record in any edition) **

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– 24.8 points per game **

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– 27.4 points per game * Most points scored in a game at the

– 55 against

, 24 September

1988 File:1988 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The oil platform Piper Alpha explodes and collapses in the North Sea, killing 165 workers; The USS Vincennes (CG-49) mistakenly shoots down Iran Air Flight 655; Australia celebrates its Australian ...

(lost 118–110) *

Finals Top Scorer (

1979 Events January * January 1 ** United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim heralds the start of the ''International Year of the Child''. Many musicians donate to the ''Music for UNICEF Concert'' fund, among them ABBA, who write the song ...

) * 7× Italian League Top Scorer: (1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1989, 1990, 1992) * 2× Italian 2nd Division Top Scorer (1991, 1993) * Spanish League Top Scorer: (1994) * 10× Brazilian Championship Top Scorer: (1979, 1980, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003) * He scored 66 points in an

game on 30 November 1991 * He scored 74 points in a

game on 28 November 1997 * Retired club jerseys: #18 JuveCaserta (1990), #11 Pavia (1993), #14 C.R. Flamengo (2003) *

: (1991) *

: (1997) *

FIBA Hall of Fame The FIBA Hall of Fame, or FIBA Basketball Hall of Fame, honors players, coaches, teams, referees, and administrators who have greatly contributed to international competitive basketball. It was established by FIBA, in 1991. It includes the " Samar ...

inductee: (2010) *

Basketball Hall of Fame The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame is an American history museum and hall of fame, located at 1000 Hall of Fame Avenue in Springfield, Massachusetts. It serves as basketball's most complete library, in addition to promoting and pre ...

: (2013) *

: (2017)

As a member of pro club teams

* 4×

champion: 1974, Sírio 1978, 1979, 1998 * 3× Brazilian Championship champion: 1977, 1979, 1996 *

champion: 1979 *

champion:

winner: 1988 * 2×

champion: 1999, 2002

Brazil national team

* 3×

FIBA South American Championship The South American Basketball Championship, or FIBA South American Championship, is the main FIBA tournament for men's national teams from South America's region of FIBA Americas. The tournament was first played in 1930. The tournament often has ...

: (1977, 1983, 1985) *

: (

1978 Events January * January 1 – Air India Flight 855, a Boeing 747 passenger jet, crashes off the coast of Bombay, killing 213. * January 5 – Bülent Ecevit, of Republican People's Party, CHP, forms the new government of Turkey (42nd go ...

) * 2× FIBA South American Championship: : (1979, 1981) *

Pan American Games The Pan American Games (also known colloquially as the Pan Am Games) is a continental multi-sport event in the Americas featuring summer sports, in which thousands of athletes participate in a variety of competitions. The competition is held ...

: (

) * Pan American Games: (

1987 File:1987 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The MS Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes after leaving the Port of Zeebrugge in Belgium, killing 193; Northwest Airlines Flight 255 crashes after takeoff from Detroit Metropolitan Airport, k ...

) *

FIBA AmeriCup The FIBA AmeriCup (previously known as the FIBA Americas Championship) is the Americas Basketball Championship that takes place every four years between national teams of the Western Hemisphere continents. Since FIBA organised the entire Wester ...

: (

1989 File:1989 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The Cypress Street Viaduct, Cypress structure collapses as a result of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, killing motorists below; The proposal document for the World Wide Web is submitted; The Exxo ...

)

References and notes

External links

Profile at interbasket.comFIBA Hall of Fame ProfileProBallers.com ProfileProfile at the Brazilian Basketball Federation

Italian League Profile

Italian League Stats

Spanish League Archive Profile

History of Brazilian basketball
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