The former basketball player died this Friday (17) after having to be rushed to hospital
Oscar Schmidt, legend of Brazilian and world basketball, . The information was confirmed by the family. Known as the “Holy Hand”, he had already recovered from two episodes of brain cancer. “My life was beautiful, I wouldn’t trade it for any other, I loved what happened in my life. This little tumor got the wrong guy and got another one, you don’t have a chance here,” Oscar told Young Pan em 2015.
In 2022 he said, also in an interview with Young Pan, who discovered the first brain tumor while in the United States after collapsing at a spa. He was taken to hospital and, after a CT scan, he discovered an 8 cm nodule.
He also recalled the moment he went to the . “Once I was in Orlando and they called me saying that I had entered the Hall of Fame, in which you don’t know who votes, an incredible thing. You can only enter five years after you stopped playing, the biggest award there is in basketball”, he recalled.
At the time, Oscar said he thought “every single day” about the in a game against the Soviet Union team at the 1988 Olympics. “We could have been Olympic champions, I had the ball to win the game, and I missed the shot”, he explained.
Oscar also said that it is much easier to think about the failures in sport. “We were capable of becoming Olympic champions, we changed levels with the Pan American victory. But it’s always like that, you think about the misfortunes, not the success”, he concluded.
