Dwight Jones, a power forward and center whose ejection from the 1972 Olympic basketball championship game in Munich contributed to the United States team’s controversial 51-50 loss to the Soviet Union, died on Monday in The Woodlands, Tex. He was 64.

The cause was cardiac arrest, his daughter Keesha Jones said.

At more than 6 feet 9 inches and around 200 pounds, Jones was a versatile big man who was picked by the Atlanta Hawks in the first round of the 1973 N.B.A. draft.

He also played for the Houston Rockets, the Chicago Bulls and the Los Angeles Lakers, amassing N.B.A. career totals of 6,230 points, 4,513 rebounds, 911 assists and 397 blocks. But for the rest of his life he remained frustrated by the loss at the Olympics, where he had been the top scorer for the Americans going into the championship game.

“For some of the guys, it’s eased over the years,” he was quoted as having said by The Houston Chronicle in 2002. “But for most of us,” he added, “we’re not that way.”