American basketball player dies of heart attack

Published Oct. 26, 2009 9:41 p.m. ET

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Kevin Widemon, a 23-year-old American guard, died of a heart attack during a Portuguese basketball tournament.

The Portuguese basketball federation said Widemon collapsed in the locker room Sunday during halftime of a game between his team Ovarense and Academica in Leiria, in northern Portugal.

Widemon, a native of Newark, N.J., had played 10 minutes in the third-place playoff game of a tournament which was canceled following his death.