Oscar Schmidt

At 66 years old, Oscar Schmidt has this physical status:

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

He has also played as Oscar Schmidt Bezerra in Spain, where he competed for Fórum Valladolid from 1993–94 and 1994–95 seasons, as well as Mo Santa (Holy Hand) in his homeland.

Schmidt, a small forward, was 2.05 meters (6 ft 8?3/4 in) tall and weighed 107 kg (236 lbs).

He was born in Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. He is considered to be the all-time leading scorer in basketball history, with 49,737 career points scored (club play, plus national team play combined).

He is also the best scorer in the history of the Summer Olympic Games, with a record holder for the longest career tenure of a professional basketball player and the highest scorer in the game's history. In 1991, he was voted one of the Top Players in the FIBA.

Schmidt was inducted into the FIBA Hall of Fame on August 20, 2010 for his participation in international competition.

Schmidt was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame on September 8, 2013.

Personal life

Schmidt underwent brain surgery to remove a malignant tumor from his brain on May 13, 2013. Nobody knew about it at first except for his family. At a dinner celebrating the 50th anniversary of the two-time FIBA World Champions senior men's Brazilian National Team, the public learned of the disease fifteen days after the fact. Schmidt did not attend the function because he was recovering from daily chemotherapy sessions. The disease was later put into remission.

Along with other Brazilian celebrities, including model Gisele Bündchen, actor Gustavo Goulart, and singer Caetano Veloso, among others, Schmidt was one of the first guests at the 2016 Rio Summer Olympics.

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Youth club career

Schmidt played youth basketball in S.E.'s youth programs. Palmeiras and Mackenzie College. He played 2,114 points in 85 games for a scoring average of 24.9 points per game. Mackenzie's youth teams won 1,332 points in 36 games, an average of 37.0 points per game.

Professional career

Schmidt began his professional career in 1974, with the Brazilian Championship club S.E. Palmeiras is a Spanish island. He won the Só Paulo State Championship in 1974 and the Brazilian Championship in 1977 as a Palmeiras member.

In 1978, he moved to E.C., Brazil's national team. Srio is the product of a long line. Schmidt, a member of Srio, won the So Paulo State Championship in 1978 and 1979, as well as the Brazilian Championship in 1979. He also won the South American Club Championship and the FIBA Intercontinental Cup championship in 1979, with Srio. In the 1979 FIBA Intercontinental Cup Final versus Bosna Sarajevo, he scored 42 points. Schmidt was the top scorer of the Brazilian Championship in both 1979 and 1980.

Schmidt was a member of the Brazilian club América do Rio in 1982. However, he only stayed with the club for a brief period of time.

Schmidt was a member of JuveCaserta in Italy during the 1982–83 season. For the first time in the 1983-1984 season, he competed in the first division of the Italian League for the first time. Schmidt played in a Pan-European club competition for the first time that season, when he appeared in Europe's third-tier competition for the first time. Schmidt played in Europe's second-tier tournament, the FIBA European Cup Winners' Cup (later renamed to FIBA Saporta Cup) for the first time in the 1984–85 season.

He won the Italian Cup title in 1988 with JuveCaserta. Schmidt scored 44 points against Real Madrid, Spain's second highest secondary level, 1988–89. However, Real Madrid's main player, Dr. En Petrovi, scored 62 points in the same game, and JuveCaserta lost the game by a score of 117-113.

Since being a member of JuveCaserta (1983–84, 1985–86, 1989–90, and 1989–90 seasons), Schmidt dominated the Italian top division in scoring six times. Schmidt's #18 jersey was eventually retired from JuveCaserta.

Schmidt joined Pavia, Italy's second Division team, in 1990. Schmidt ruled the Italian 2nd Division in scoring in both the 1990–91 and 1992–93 seasons, with Pavia. During the 1991–92 season, Pavia had a hand in the first division Italian League in scoring. In 1991, he was also a member of the FIBA European Selection process.

Schmidt scored 66 points in a 1991-92 season game against Auxilium Torino on October 30. Pavia later retired his #11 jersey.

While playing club basketball in Italy, Schmidt met future NBA star Kobe Bryant. Bryant was a young child living in Italy when his father, Joe Bryant, played professional basketball in the country at the time. Schmidt was one of his childhood heroes, and Bryant said he may have been one of the top players in the NBA if he hadn't played in the league.

Schmidt was the Top Scorer of the Italian First Division seven times (1983–84, 1985–89, 1989–90, 1991–92 seasons) during his time as a coach in Italy. Schmidt was inducted into the Italian Basketball Hall of Fame in 2017.

Schmidt joined Valladolid, Spain, in 1993. Schmidt was the top scorer in the Spanish league in 1993-1994, with a scoring average of 33.3 points per game in 33 games played (regular season and playoffs). In a Spanish League match against Murcia on March 19, 1994, Schmidt scored 11 3-point field goals.

Schmidt was a member of Valladolid from 1994-95. In 38 games played, he averaged 24.0 points per game. In a game against Málaga in which he scored 47 points and made all 8 of his 3-point field goal attempts, he was his single-game scoring high in the Spanish League.

Schmidt averaged 28.3 points per game in his two seasons in the Spanish ACB, scoring a total of 2,009 points in 71 games played (regular season and playoffs).

Schmidt returned to Brazil in 1995 to compete in the Brazilian Basketball Championship for the first time. He served as a member of the Corinthians Paulista in S.C. from 1995 to 1997. He played with Grêmio Barniere / Mackenzie from 1997 to 1999, and he ended his club work with C.R. Flamengo, where he competed from 1999 to 2003, was where he excelled.

In 1996, he became the Brazilian Championship with Corinthians Paulista. He competed in the Soko Paulo State Championship in 1998 as a member of Grêmio Barueri Bandeirantes. In a So Paulo State Championship game on November 28, 1997, Grêmio Barriere, Schmidt, 39, scored 74 points.

He competed in the Rio de Janeiro State Championship in 1999 and 2002 as a member of Flamengo. Flamengo's #14 jersey was eventually retired from his team. In each of his last eight seasons (1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2002, 2003, 2003, 2003, 2003). Schmidt was the Brazilian Championship's top scorer in each of his last eight seasons (1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2003, 2003, 2003, 2003, 2003, 2003, 2003, 2003, 2003, 2003. In 1979 and 1980, this was in comparison to the two times he had earlier led the same competition in scoring.

On May 26, 2003, Schmidt retired from his club basketball playing career at the age of 45. 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 figures do not include any of the games he played in during his pro club career, as well as some of the national cup games and Pan-European games in which he competed in Europe are not available.

Schmidt was drafted by the New Jersey Nets in the sixth round of the 1984 NBA draft, and he spent time with them in 1984 NBA training camp and preseason. However, he turned down the club's fully guaranteed deal because it was for much less money than he earned while playing in Italy, and also because to accept the team's contract agreement, he would not represent the senior Brazilian national team. That was because NBA players were not allowed to compete for national teams until 1989.

National team career

Schmidt was involved in Brazil's national federation service's youth services. He appeared in 15 games with S. Paulo's junior selection, scoring 393 points in 15 games for a scoring average of 26.2 points per game. He also appeared in 31 games with Brazil's national junior team, in which he scored a total of 569 points per game for a scoring average of 18.4 points per game.

Schmidt played in five Summer Olympics (he was the second player to do so after Teófilo Cruz) and was the top scorer in three of them for the senior Brazil national team. However, he never advanced to the tournament's quarterfinals. He appeared in seven games and scored 169 points for a 24.1 average in the 1980 Summer Olympics.

In seven games during the 1984 Summer Olympics, he scored 169 points in seven games. The 1988 Summer Olympics was his best Olympic performance. He scored 338 points in the tournament's average of 42.3 points per game. He scored 198 points in eight games in 1992, and he scored 219 points in eight games in 1996. Schmidt averaged 1,093 points per game in 38 Olympic basketball games, his highest score in 38 years.

Schmidt is also the all-time leader in total points scored in the FIBA World Cup, having scored 843 points in 33 games for a scoring average of 25.5 points per game. At the 1978 FIBA World Cup, he won the bronze medal and made the All-Tournament Team, as well as the 1991 FIBA World Cup, where he also led scoring with averaging of 34.6 points per game.

Schmidt competed in the 1987 Pan American Games gold-medal match in Indianapolis, which was held in Indianapolis. In Pervis Ellison and Keith Smart, two NCAA Championship Final Four MVPs, as well as other potential NBA players such as Rex Chapman and Dan Majerle, were among the US national team's rosters. Brazil suffered a 68–54 halftime deficit. However, Schmidt won by 46 points in a 120-115 victory for Brazil.

Schmidt retired from playing with the senior Brazilian national team in 1996 as the country's all-time top scorer. He scored a total of 7,693 points in 326 games played, for a career scoring average of 23.6 points per game. Schmidt was given the Olympic Order award in 1997.

Post-athletic career

Schmidt began his career in 2004 as a manager. He was the CEO of "Telemar Rio de Janeiro," a Brazilian professional basketball team that won the "Campeonato Carioca" (Rio de Janeiro State Championship) in 2004 and 2005, as well as the Brazilian Championship in 2005.

In 2006, Schmidt, as well as other Brazilian basketball greats, including Paula and Hortência (another Hall of Fame member), led the NLB: Nossa Liga de Basquete ("our basketball team"), the Brazilian Basketball Championship's aspiring opponent to the Brazilian Basketball Championship. However, the league ceased a year later.

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