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The following are the basketball 2020
The following are basketball events that are expected to take place in 2020 throughout the world.
Tournaments include international (FIBA), professional (club), and amateur and collegiate levels.
International tournaments
National senior team tournaments
3X3 championships
Other international championships
FIBA youth championships
Professional club seasons
FIBA Intercontinental Cup
Continental seasons
Men
Women
Regional seasons
Men
Women
Domestic league seasons
Men
^ Includes one team from New Zealand.
^ Includes one team from Monaco.
^ Panathinaikos named champion after the premature ending of the league due to the coronavirus pandemic in Greece
^ Basketball on the island of Ireland, including the league system, is organised on an All-Ireland basis. As such, the national league includes one team from Northern Ireland, which is politically part of the United Kingdom.
^ Žalgiris named champion after the premature ending of the league due to the coronavirus pandemic in Lithuania
^ Includes one team each from Belarus, Estonia, Kazakhstan, and Latvia. The highest-ranked team from Russia is also named as Russian Champions.
^ Includes one team from Andorra.
^ Borås named champion after the premature ending of the league due to the coronavirus pandemic in Sweden
^ The NBA and the G League each include one team from Canada.
Women
College seasons
Deaths
January 1 — Roland Minson , 90, All-American college player (BYU ).[ 1]
January 1 — David Stern , 77, American NBA commissioner (1984–2014).[ 2]
January 2 — Gale McArthur , 90, All-American college player (Oklahoma State ).[ 3]
January 12 — Dick Schnittker , 91, American two-time NBA champion (Minneapolis Lakers ) and college All-American (Ohio State ).[ 4]
January 14 — Carl McNulty , 89, American NBA player (Milwaukee Hawks ).[ 5]
January 15 — Milovan Stepandić , 65, Serbian coach (OKK Šabac , KK Borac Čačak , KK Metalac Valjevo ).[ 6]
January 16 — Gene Schwinger , 87, All-American college player (Rice ).[ 7]
January 21 — Morgan Wootten , 88, American Hall of Fame high school coach (DeMatha ).[ 8]
January 23 — Robert Archibald , 39, Scottish NBA player (Memphis Grizzlies , Phoenix Suns , Orlando Magic , Toronto Raptors ).[ 9]
January 23 — Kalevi Tuominen , 92, Finnish player (Tampereen Pyrintö ) and coach (Finland national team).[ 10]
January 26 — Kobe Bryant , 41, American NBA player (Los Angeles Lakers ), five-time NBA champion, two-time Olympic gold medalist (2008 , 2012 ).[ 11]
January 29 — Blagoja Georgievski , 69, Macedonian player (Rabotnički ), Olympic silver medalist (1976 ).[ 12]
February 2 — Peter Aluma , 46, Nigerian NBA player (Sacramento Kings ).[ 13]
February 2 — Ryszard Olszewski , 87, Polish Olympic player (1960 ).[ 14]
February 5 — Bill Oates , 80, American college coach (Saint Mary's , Menlo , The Master's ).[ 15] [ 16]
February 6 — Dick Atha , 88, American NBA player (New York Knicks , Detroit Pistons ).[ 17]
February 16 — Henry Akin , 75, American NBA and ABA player (New York Knicks, Seattle SuperSonics , Kentucky Colonels ).[ 18]
February 16 — Ed Murphy , 78, American college coach (Ole Miss , West Georgia ).[ 19]
March — Jeff Taylor , 60, American NBA player (Houston Rockets , Detroit Pistons).[ 20]
March 5 — Levan Moseshvili , 79, Georgian player, Olympic silver medalist (1964 ).
March 18 — John Erickson , 92, American college coach (Lake Forest , Wisconsin ) and NBA general manager (Milwaukee Bucks ).[ 21]
March 20 — Borislav Stanković , 94, Hall of Fame Serbian player and coach, Secretary General of FIBA .[ 22]
March 21 — Leroy Wright , 82, American ABA player (Pittsburgh Pipers ).[ 23]
March 25 — Aric del Rosario , 80, Filipino coach (UST Growling Tigers , Pampanga Dragons , Perpetual Altas ).[ 24]
March 26 — Curly Neal , 77, American player (Harlem Globetrotters ).[ 25]
March 27 — Les Hunter , 77, American NBA and ABA player, college national champion at Loyola (1963 ).[ 26]
April 2 — Carl Tacy , 87, American college coach (Marshall , Wake Forest ).[ 27]
April 7 — Harv Schmidt , 83, American college player and coach (Illinois ).[ 28]
April 12 — Sascha Hupmann , 49, German player (Evansville , Alba Berlin , Panathinaikos ).[ 29]
April 13 — Charlie Harrison , 70, American college coach (New Mexico , East Carolina ).[ 30]
April 15 — Alfonso Marquez , 82, Filipino Olympic player (1960 , 1968 ).[ 31]
April 23 — Chris Marcus , 40, American college player (Western Kentucky ).[ 32]
April 26 — Abolfazl Salabi , 95, Iranian Olympic player (1948 ).[ 33]
April 27 — Mark McNamara , 60, American NBA player (Philadelphia 76ers , Kansas City Kings , San Antonio Spurs , Los Angeles Lakers, Orlando Magic).[ 34]
April 29 — Gerson Victalino , 60, Brazilian Olympic player (1984 , 1988 , 1992 ).[ 35]
May 1 — Lajos Engler , 91, Serbian player (KK Proleter Zrenjanin , KK Partizan )[ 36]
May 2 — Maret-Mai Otsa , 89, Estonian player, FIBA World champion (1959 ).[ 37]
May 4 — Álvaro Teherán , 54, Colombian player (Baloncesto Málaga , Fort Wayne Fury , KK Olimpija ).[ 38]
May 5 — Sonny Cox , 82, American high school coach (King College Prep ).[ 39]
May 7 — Mike Storen , 84, American professional league commissioner (ABA, CBA , GBA ) and ABA/NBA executive (Indiana Pacers , Kentucky Colonels, Atlanta Hawks ).[ 40]
May 8 — Johnny McCarthy , 86, American NBA player (Cincinnati Royals , St. Louis Hawks , Boston Celtics ) and coach (Buffalo Braves , Canisius ).[ 41]
May 14 — Jim Tucker , 87, American NBA player (Syracuse Nationals ) and college All-American (Duquesne ).[ 42]
May 16 — Tony Yates , 82, American college All-American player and coach (Cincinnati ), two-time NCAA champion (1961 , 1962 ).[ 43]
May 19 — Ken Burmeister , 72, American college coach (UTSA , Loyola , Incarnate Word ).[ 44]
May 22 — Jerry Sloan , 78, American NBA player (Baltimore Bullets , Chicago Bulls ) and Hall of Fame coach (Chicago Bulls, Utah Jazz ).[ 45]
May 23 — Eddie Sutton , 84, American Hall of Fame college basketball coach (Creighton , Arkansas , Kentucky , Oklahoma State).[ 46]
June 2 – Wes Unseld , 74, American Hall of Fame NBA player, coach and executive (Baltimore/Capital/Washington Bullets ) and college All-American (Louisville ).[ 47]
June 9 — Noel Johnson , 47, American college coach (Midwestern State ).[ 48]
June 10 — Harry Glickman , 96, American NBA executive and co-founder of the Portland Trail Blazers .[ 49]
June 11 — Cy Strulovitch , 94, Canadian Olympic player (1948).[ 50]
June 11 — Earnie Killum , 72, American NBA player (Los Angeles Lakers).[ 51]
June 13 — Dick Garmaker , 87, American NBA player (Minneapolis Lakers, New York Knicks) and college All-American (Minnesota ).[ 52]
June 13 — Nic Jorge , 78, Filipino coach and administrator.[ 53]
June 23 — Justin Love , 41, American player (BK Ventspils , Beijing Olympians , BC Odessa ).[ 54]
June 25 — Juan Ostoic , 89, Chilean Olympic player (1952 , 1956 ).[ 55]
July 3 — Charlie Slack , 89, American college player (Marshall ).[ 56]
July 6 — Zdzisław Myrda , 69, Polish Olympic player (1980 ).[ 57]
July 10 — Ed Wild , 85, Canadian Olympic player (1956).[ 58]
July 14 — Bea Gorton , 73, American college coach (Indiana ).[ 59]
July 16 — Vladimir Obuchov , 84, Soviet/Russian coach (Soviet national team ).[ 60]
July 18 — Lenzie Howell , 52, American player (Arkansas , Tofaş , Cholet ).[ 61]
July 21 — Stanley Robinson , 32, American player (UConn , Iowa Energy , Moncton Miracles ).[ 62]
July 22 — Paul Van Roy , 88, Belgian player.[ 63]
July 25 — Lou Henson , 88, American college coach (Hardin-Simmons , New Mexico State , Illinois ).[ 64]
July 29 — Kittie Blakemore , 91, American college coach (West Virginia ).[ 65]
July 29 — Bob McCurdy , 68, All-American college player (Richmond ).[ 66]
July 31 — Mike Gale , 70, American ABA (Kentucky Colonels, New York Nets ) and NBA (San Antonio Spurs, Portland Trail Blazers, Golden State Warriors ) player.[ 67]
August 4 — Andre Spencer , 56, American NBA (Atlanta Hawks, Golden State Warriors, Sacramento Kings) and Israeli League (Maccabi Rishon LeZion , Ironi Ramat Gan ) player.[ 68]
August 7 — Michael Ojo , 27, Nigerian-American player (FMP , Crvena zvezda ).[ 69]
See also
References
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