1983 in basketball
The following are the basketball events of the year 1983 throughout the world.
| Years in basketball |
|---|
|
2020s |
|
1960s
|
|
1950s
|
|
1940s
|
|
1920s
|
|
1910s
|
|
1900s
|
| See also |
|
Collegiate awards
- Men
- John R. Wooden Award: Ralph Sampson, Virginia
- Frances Pomeroy Naismith Award: Ray McCallum, Ball State
- Associated Press College Basketball Player of the Year: Ralph Sampson, Virginia
- NCAA Basketball Tournament Most Outstanding Player: Patrick Ewing, Georgetown
- Associated Press College Basketball Coach of the Year: Guy Lewis, Houston
- Naismith Outstanding Contribution to Basketball: John Wooden
- Women
Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame
- Class of 1983:[1]
Births
- January 29 — Nedžad Sinanović, Bosnian basketball player
Deaths
- May 20 — Clair Bee, American Hall of Fame college coach (Long Island) (born 1896)
- June 6 — Curly Armstrong, American NBA player (Fort Wayne Pistons) (born 1918)
- June 19 — Dave Quabius, American NBL player (Sheboygan Red Skins, Oshkosh All-Stars) (born 1916)
- July 12 — Donald White, All-American player (Purdue) and college coach (Washington University, Connecticut, Rutgers) (born 1898)
- July 15 — Gary Bradds, American NBA/ABA player, college All-American at Ohio State (born 1942)
- December 4 — Bruce Drake, American Hall of Fame college coach (Oklahoma Sooners) (born 1905)
- December 21 — Mark Workman, All-American college player (West Virginia) and NBA player (born 1930)
gollark: Voice chat is more intensive even.
gollark: My laptop could trivially handle such traffic.
gollark: Do you really think discord will be significantly harmed by a few hundred requests a second at most?
gollark: Not significantly enough to do anything.
gollark: You can, with 391038592032939 widely distributed computers.
See also
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.