Iván Olivares

Iván José Olivares Alvárez (born 10 December 1961 in Caracas) is a Venezuelan former basketball player who competed in the 1992 Summer Olympics. He is considered one of the greatest Venezuelan basketball players of all time.

In addition to the Olympics, he represented his country at the 1990 FIBA World Championship and 1991 South American Basketball Championship.

Olivares played for Springfield College in Massachusetts, earning NCAA Division II All-American honors in 1986. That season, he broke the school record for points in a season with 832. In 1998, he became the first Latino to be inducted into the NCAA Hall of Fame. His two sons (Alberto Olivares Bastardo) that lives in U.S and (José Freites Bastardo) that was one of the greatest promises in Venezuela to reach the NBA at the time, it is unknown why he did not follow in his father's footsteps.