Raymond Dalmau
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Raymond Dalmau (born c. 1950) is a Puerto Rican who is a former super star of Puerto Rico's BSN basketball league.
Dalmau participated in three Olympics. He held the record for the most career points scored in that league for a long time, scoring over 11,000 points (in the BSN, an exclusive group of players has reached over 5,000 points, since each season is played only for a maximum of 33 games).
In 1968, Dalmau lead the league in scoring. He repeated as scoring champion in 1970, when he won his first championship as a member of the Piratas de Quebradillas. He also helped lead Quebradillas to back to back to back titles in 1977, 1978 and 1979.
In 1982, Dalmau and Quebradillas returned to the BSN finals, but they lost to Mario Morales and the Guaynabo Mets in six games.
In 1985, Dalmau retired from basketball as a player, going on to coaching in the BSN for many years. He has also coached in Venezuela for a number of years.
His sons, Christian, Richie and Ricardo Dalmau, are also productive basketball players at the BSN.
In 2003, Dalmau was diagnosed with colon cancer, of which he recuperated. During a 2005 television show where he and Eddie Miró were being introduced as spokesmen in Puerto Rico for colon cancer, he quipped that, at his age, he can still jog everyday from Santurce to past the Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in Isla Verde, which constitutes a considerable distance (more than five miles).
Benicio del Toro's character in the film Basquiat wears Dalmau's Puerto Rico National Basketball Team shirt (it features Dalmau's usual uniform number, 17) and is named Dalmau after him.
