Posted 2009/10/25 at 4:44 pm EDT
LISBON, Oct. 25, 2009 (Reuters) — U.S. basketball player Kevin Widemond died on Sunday in Portugal after collapsing during a break in a game for his Ovarense side, the Portuguese Basketball Federation said.
"The Federation laments to inform that Kevin Widemond, the north-American guard for Ovarense Dolce Vita, died on Sunday," the federation said in a statement.
"The player, 23, collapsed unconscious in the changing room, victim of a cardiac arrest after having been on the pitch for 10 minutes. The Leiria hospital confirmed his death."
(Reporting by Andrei Khalip; Editing by John Mehaffey)
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