Wednesday, August 22, 2007

USA Basketball: Men's Pan Am Games Team History -- 1987

SOME OF US ARE ABOUT TO FEEL OLD: In a game that I can remember watching with jaw agape, it was twenty years ago today in Indianapolis that Oscar Schmidt led the Brazilian national basketball team with 46 points to defeat the United States in the Pan-Am Games finals, 120-115. Schmidt, nicknamed Mão Santa (Holy Hand) scored 35 second-half points in the game, and was 7-for-15 from beyond the arc. Grainy video highlights here.

Your losing American roster that day, for what it's worth, featured David Robinson, Rex Chapman, Danny Manning, "Never Nervous" Pervis Ellison and Keith Smart.

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