He played around 5 Olympics, and was a top scorer within ternion of the children. Even so, he never went past a quarterfinals. Around 1980 he played 7 games & scored 169 points for the Two dozen.One typical. He over agaaround scored 169 points within Seven games in 1984. His better Olympic performance was a 1988 Seoul Olympics. He scored 338 points for & typical of 42.Trine points by the game. Inside 1992 he scored 19Ogdoad points inside 8 games, & in 1996 he scored 219 points in Octonary games. Inside 38 career Olympic Basketball, Oscar scored 1093 points for the record Xxviii.Octad points by the game typical.

He scored 49,703 points within his top-level career, a virtually all ever.

Oscar is probably virtually all remembered in the United States for his performance in the gold-medal match of the 1987 Pan American Games in Indianapolis. A United states team of college players at people games featured ii Tons-Americans within David Robinson (an almost certain Hall of Famer) and Danny Manning, two Final Four MVPs in Pervis Ellison and Keith Smart, and many more new NBA players. Brazil faced the 68-54 halftime deficit. Oscar about lone-single-handed led Brazil to the stunning comeback, finishing by using 46 points inside the 120-115 win.

He was drafted per New Jersey Nets in 1984, and got many more chance to play in the NBA, however declined the babies whole. He retired in May 26, 2003.

Presently, Oscar is leading a NBB: Nossa Liga diamond state Basquete ("Our Basketball League"), that wants to coordinate a Brazilian Basketball League.