History goes back to the 1987 Pan American Games basketball final in Indianapolis, USA, the United States played Brazil, and at the end of the first half, the United States team with David Robinson, Danny Manning and Ricks Chapman led by 14 points!

At the beginning of the second half, I saw a small forward with a height of 2.05 meters and a weight of 102 kilograms in Brazil constantly throwing the ball into the opponent's basket, and at the last moment, a super long three-point shot to kill the United States, the whistle sounded, and the final score was fixed at 120:115, Brazil achieved a reversal and defeated the United States! This is the first time that the U.S. men's basketball team has lost on home soil!

The player who led Brazil to a comeback in the second half was named Oscar Schmidt, and Oscar scored 45 points in that game, completely humiliating the United States team with future NBA stars. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Oscar Schmidt (Oscar Schmidt), born on February 16, 1958 in the northeastern seaport city of Natal, Brazil, is 2.05 meters tall, in a country where footballers are famous all over the world, Oscar Schmidt is probably the most famous non-football player in Brazil, he is the Olympic Games and the men's basketball world championship in the history of the scoring champion.

He has a nickname that represents the highest honor: Holy Hands! The nickname comes from his scoring performances in the professional arena, the Olympic arena, and the World Men's Basketball Championship. He is the "world's leading scorer" in international basketball; Between 1980 and 1996 he played five Olympic Games and became the all-time leading scorer with 1,093 points. His total score of 916 at the World Championships made him the leading scorer at the World Championships.

Oscar Schmidt has competed in five Olympic Games, including representing Brazil at the 1980 Olympics, averaging 24.1 points and 6.7 rebounds per game; In the 1984 Olympic Games, Schmidt still averaged 24.1 points and 4.7 rebounds per game, in the 1988 Seoul Olympics, Schmidt scored a staggering 338 points and averaged 42.3 points per game, plus 7.8 rebounds, and in 1992, the 34-year-old Schmidt still scored 24.8 points and 3.5 rebounds in the Barcelona Olympics. At the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, Schmidt was 38 years old, but he still averaged 27.4 points and 3.1 rebounds per game!

It can be said that Schmidt's performance on the international stage is unparalleled, and in Brazil, Schmidt's historical position in the Brazilian men's basketball team is equivalent to that of Jordan! But why did Schmidt, who performed so well on the international stage, never enter the NBA?

In fact, as early as 1984, Schmidt was selected by the Nets with the 15th pick in the sixth round, but he refused to play in the NBA, because the NBA had a rule at that time that league players were not allowed to participate in international competitions, and this rule was not lifted until 1989, and Schmidt at that time thought that the sense of honor of playing for his home country far outweighed the temptation of giving up international games to go to the NBA to pan for gold! Unfortunately, by the time Oscar announced his retirement in 2003, he and Brazil had not finished in the top three at the Olympics.

Another reason why Schmidt never signed up for the NBA was that he heard some "bad rumors" about the NBA from his friend Bulgarian star Jory Grochekov, who told Schmidt about his unhappy experience in the NBA: no guard liked him, no one would pass the ball to him. "I don't like to be treated like that, I'm not going to the NBA," Schmidt said. ”

Schmidt's sharpest offensive weapon is his shooting, and his domineering and accurate shooting makes him the number one killer in history on the international stage! His offense in FIBA, especially his shooting, is equivalent to the level of NBA "Big Bird" Bird, or even better! There was a suspicion that he would only shoot offensively and that the others were weak, but Schmidt dismissed it and said, "I'm not interested in defense, like some people can play the piano, some people can only carry the piano, I only do what I'm good at." ”

There have been comments that have compared Schmidt to the small Noh King, who belongs to the tall pitcher type, the projection is very stable and accurate, the shooting point is also high, does not rely on the shooting space, and the sky-fucker mode is turned on if he disagrees, and if he plays small forward in the NBA, he can reach the All-Star level.

When NBA legend Barkley saw Schmidt on the sidelines of a Los Angeles Lakers game in 2004, he said this to Schmidt: "My good buddy Oscar! Long time no see! Are you okay now? What do you usually do? Some guys think they know a lot about basketball, but they haven't even heard of your name... You're a good guy! Even if you look at the entire history of basketball, there are few people who have scored more points than you, man, but you can do it, you're the best scorer of all the time, you're a great guy! ”

This statement is not groundless, at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, the 34-year-old Oscar single-handedly brought the mediocre Brazil team to the fifth place. He scored 198 points in that game and became the scoring champion of the men's basketball game, and the two major scorers of the "Dream Team" at that time, Barkley (144 points) and Jordan (118 points), who swept everything, could only be in the dust.

At the 1988 Seoul Olympics, Oscar set a new personal record for 10 men's basketball games, including points scored in a single game (55 points), points scored in a single game (338 points), points per game, three-point shots, two-point shots and free throws made!

In Italy, which has 13 years of "combat experience", Oscar is the first person in Italian basketball to score more than 10,000 points. In the 1990-91 season, Oscar's performance averaged 44 points per game shocked an American boy in Italy named Kobe Bryant. Since then, Kobe Bryant Jr. has never idolized his father, Joe Bryant, who once played in the NBA.

At the 2013 Nai Smith Basketball "Hall of Fame" ceremony in the United States, the most eye-catching was none other than the Brazilian basketball legend - Oscar Schmidt. The player, who has not played a single NBA game, has been crowned the highest honor in American basketball for his legendary performance on the international stage. He was inducted into the Naismith World Basketball Hall of Fame, and his name is put along with Jordan, Magic, Abdul-Jabbar and Russell.

The most outstanding scoring killer in the international men's basketball arena, as well as the record he set, it is estimated that future generations can basically only look up to the mountains.