Golden State Warriors ahead Gui Santos says that the late nice Oscar Schmidt meant all the pieces to Brazil’s basketball tradition.
(through Golden State Warriors):
“So for me, Oscar, I by no means watched him play, I’m too younger. I believe the 12 months that he completed his profession in 2003 was the 12 months that I used to be one-year-old, so I didn’t actually watch him enjoying. However Oscar was rather a lot for Brazil, he meant rather a lot for everyone, as a result of I believe he put Brazil on the map whenever you speak about basketball, as a result of no one knew Brazil for basketball earlier than him, and that was simply soccer. However then Oscar come within the Olympics, he was scoring 45, 50 factors, 40, 55. The truth that he’s the second man to have [the] most factors within the historical past of basketball: he’s simply behind LeBron [James], it tells rather a lot.
“Oscar Holy Palms, like he’s recognized in Brazil. He was a giant, large factor for all of Brazilians, and you might see in Brazil proper now, the one factor they discuss is simply Oscar. He had a giant and big influence for us. It’s form of like Pelé of basketball for us. Yeah, it was a tough time for all the folks to like basketball in Brazil. Oscar is absolutely, actually the most important idol and the most important man within the basketball historical past for Brazil, so no one will be like him once more.”
