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- Oscar Schmidt, Brazilian basketball legend, died at 68 on Friday in Santana de Parnaiba, Brazil.
- He finished his career with 49,973 points, including a 55-point Olympic record set in 1988.
- He declined a 1984 New Jersey Nets NBA contract to remain eligible for Brazil’s national team.
- He was inducted into the FIBA (2010), Naismith (2013) and Italian (2017) Halls of Fame.
- His wife Maria Cristina Victorino and two children survive him.
