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class="mw-body-content"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Puerto Rican basketball player</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">In this <a href="/wiki/Spanish_name" class="mw-redirect" title="Spanish name">Spanish name</a>, the first or paternal <a href="/wiki/Surname" title="Surname">surname</a> is <i> Rivera</i> and the second or maternal family name is <i> Oliveras</i>.</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output 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.mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox vcard" style="width:26em"><caption class="infobox-title fn summary">Neftalí Rivera</caption><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #DCDCDC !important; color: #000000 !important; border: 2.5px solid #DCDCDC !important;">Personal information</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align: left;">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1948-11-03</span>)</span>November 3, 1948<br /><a href="/wiki/Manhattan,_New_York" class="mw-redirect" title="Manhattan, New York">Manhattan, New York</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align: left;">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">December 23, 2017<span style="display:none">(2017-12-23)</span> (aged 69)<br /><a href="/wiki/Hato_Rey,_Puerto_Rico" class="mw-redirect" title="Hato Rey, Puerto Rico">Hato Rey, Puerto Rico</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align: left;">Nationality</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Puerto_Rico" title="Puerto Rico">Puerto Rico</a> <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align: left;">Listed height</th><td class="infobox-data">5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align: left;">Listed weight</th><td class="infobox-data">174 lb (79 kg)</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #DCDCDC !important; color: #000000 !important; border: 2.5px solid #DCDCDC !important;">Career information</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align: left;">Playing career</th><td class="infobox-data">1969–1983</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align: left;">Position</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Shooting_guard" title="Shooting guard">Shooting guard</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #DCDCDC !important; color: #000000 !important; border: 2.5px solid #DCDCDC !important;">Career history<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight: normal;text-align: left;">1969—1981</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height: 1.2em;text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Piratas_de_Quebradillas" title="Piratas de Quebradillas">Piratas de Quebradillas</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight: normal;text-align: left;">1982—1983</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height: 1.2em;text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Leones_de_Ponce_(basketball)" title="Leones de Ponce (basketball)">Leones de Ponce</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><th colspan="2"> </th></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #DCDCDC !important; color: #000000 !important; border: 2.5px solid #DCDCDC !important;"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546">Career highlights and awards</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="text-align: left;"> <ul><li>4× <a href="/wiki/List_of_BSN_champions" title="List of BSN champions">BSN champion</a> (1970, 1977–1979)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/BSN_Most_Valuable_Player_Award" title="BSN Most Valuable Player Award">BSN Most Valuable Player</a> (1973)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Baloncesto_Superior_Nacional" title="Baloncesto Superior Nacional">BSN</a> scoring champion (1969, 1973)</li> <li>BSN Rookie of the Year (1969)</li></ul> </td></tr><tr style="display:none"><th colspan="2"> </th></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #DCDCDC !important; color: #000000 !important; border: 2.5px solid #DCDCDC !important;"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546">Career statistics</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align: right; line-height: 1.2em"><a href="/wiki/Point_(basketball)" class="mw-redirect" title="Point (basketball)">Points</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height: 1.2em">7,482 (19.2 ppg)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align: right; line-height: 1.2em"><a href="/wiki/Rebound_(basketball)" title="Rebound (basketball)">Rebounds</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height: 1.2em">1,052 (2.7 rpg)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align: right; line-height: 1.2em"><a href="/wiki/Assist_(basketball)" title="Assist (basketball)">Assists</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height: 1.2em">1,291 (3.3 apg)</td></tr><tr style="display:none"><th colspan="2"> </th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below"><div class="mw-collapsible" 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class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/1971_Pan_American_Games" title="1971 Pan American Games">1971 Santiago de Cali</a></span></td> <td style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;"><a href="/wiki/Basketball_at_the_1971_Pan_American_Games" title="Basketball at the 1971 Pan American Games">Team</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> </div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Neftalí Rivera Oliveras</b> (November 3, 1948 – December 23, 2017) was a Puerto Rican <a href="/wiki/Basketball" title="Basketball">basketball</a> player who competed in the <a href="/wiki/1972_Summer_Olympics" title="1972 Summer Olympics">1972 Summer Olympics</a> and in the <a href="/wiki/1976_Summer_Olympics" title="1976 Summer Olympics">1976 Summer Olympics</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-sref_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sref-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He holds the record for most points in a game in the <a href="/wiki/Baloncesto_Superior_Nacional" title="Baloncesto Superior Nacional">Baloncesto Superior Nacional</a> when he scored 79 points on May 22, 1974. In that game he achieved the record by making 34 field goals (all of them 2-pointers as the 3-pointers were not adopted back then) and 11 free throws.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He died on December 23, 2017, at Auxilio Mutuo Hospital in <a href="/wiki/Hato_Rey,_Puerto_Rico" class="mw-redirect" title="Hato Rey, Puerto Rico">Hato Rey, Puerto Rico</a>, due to respiratory problems.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career">Career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Neftal%C3%AD_Rivera&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Rivera played for 15 seasons in the BSN. He made his debut in 1969 with the <a href="/wiki/Piratas_de_Quebradillas" title="Piratas de Quebradillas">Piratas de Quebradillas</a> and retired in 1983 with the <a href="/wiki/Leones_de_Ponce_(basketball)" title="Leones de Ponce (basketball)">Leones de Ponce</a>. His first 13 seasons were spent with the Piratas, where he won four championships in the seasons of 1970, 1977, 1978, and 1979.<sup id="cite_ref-Neftali01_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Neftali01-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Since his debut Rivera was an impact player in the BSN league. As a rookie in the BSN he averaged 22.3 points to be the league's scoring champion and that same season he won the Rookie of the Year award. In the 1973 season he was once again the league's scoring champion with an average of 25.2 points and was the first player to surpass 800 points in a season. His achievements in 1973 included winning the BSN Most Valuable Player award.<sup id="cite_ref-terry2018_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-terry2018-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On May 22, 1974, he established the record for most points scored in a game in the BSN league when he scored 79 in the victory of the Piratas over the Taínos de Mayagüez with a score of 153–82.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the same game he also set new league records by scoring 34 field baskets in the game, getting 52 points in the second half, and scoring 25 field baskets in that second half. His teammate <a href="/wiki/Raymond_Dalmau" title="Raymond Dalmau">Raymond Dalmau</a> scored 30 points in that same game, thus they combined for 109 points, breaking the record for most points by team duo in the league. </p><p>Rivera became part of the national team in 1969, the same year he debuted in the BSN league. His first tournament with the team was at the Centrobasket in 1969 where he was the second best scorer of the tournament with an average of 20.5 points and was the leader of basket scored with 72. In that tournament, held in Cuba, the Puerto Rican squad won the bronze medal. 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