1993 in basketball

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The following are the basketball events of the year 1993 throughout the world.

Championships

Awards and honors

Births

• March 7
  • Özge Kavurmacıoğlu, Turkish basketball player
  • Stefan Popovski-Turanjanin, Serbian basketball player
• May 11 – Maurice Harkless, American-Puerto Rican basketball player^[2]
• June 18 – Gianluca Marchetti, Italian professional basketball player

Deaths

• January 3 — Johnny Most, Famed announcer for the Boston Celtics (born 1923)
• January 15 — Henry Iba, Hall of Fame college coach and two-time national champion (Oklahoma A&M) and three-time Olympic coach (born 1904)
• January 18 — Paul Hansen, 64, American college coach (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma State).^[3]
• January 19 — Chris Street, Iowa Hawkeyes forward (born 1972)
• January 22 — Jim Pollard, Hall of Fame player for the Minneapolis Lakers (born 1922)
• March 8 — Don Barksdale, College basketball's first African-American consensus All-American (UCLA) (born 1923)
• March 9 — Vanya Voynova, Bulgarian women's player and FIBA Hall of Fame member (born 1934)
• April 11 — Malcolm Wiseman, Canadian Olympic silver medalist (1936) (born 1913)
• April 28 — Jim Valvano, Coach of the 1983 National Champion NC State Wolfpack (born 1946)
• June 3 — Joe Fortenberry, member of 1936 US Olympic champion team (born 1911)
• June 7 — Mike Bloom, All-American college player (Temple), ABL, BAA player (born 1915)
• June 7 — Dražen Petrović, Croatian basketball star of the New Jersey Nets (born 1964)
• June 16 — Arad McCutchan, Hall of Fame coach of the five-time NCAA College Division national champion Evansville Purple Aces (born 1912)
• July 27 — Reggie Lewis, NBA All-Star from the Boston Celtics (born 1965)
• October 17 — Bill Reigel, AAU player and college coach (McNeese State) (born 1932)
• October 21 — Irv Torgoff, College All-American (Long Island), NBL, BAA player (born 1917)
• October 26 — Everett Dean, Hall of Fame coach of the 1942 NCAA Champion Stanford Indians (born 1898)
• November 26 — Tom Scott, American college coach (North Carolina, Davidson) (born 1908)
• November 28 — Robert Hawkins, NBA player (born 1954)
• December 9 — Matt Guokas, Sr., American player (Philadelphia Warriors) and announcer (born 1915)
• December 30 — George Stone, American ABA player (Utah Stars, Carolina Cougars) (born 1946)

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