1987 in basketball
The following are the basketball events of the year 1987 throughout the world.
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Collegiate awards
- Men
- John R. Wooden Award: David Robinson, Navy
- Naismith College Coach of the Year: Bob Knight, Indiana
- Frances Pomeroy Naismith Award: Muggsy Bogues, Wake Forest
- Associated Press College Basketball Player of the Year: David Robinson, Navy
- NCAA Basketball Tournament Most Outstanding Player: Danny Manning, Kansas
- Associated Press College Basketball Coach of the Year: Tom Davis, Iowa
- Naismith Outstanding Contribution to Basketball: Pete Newell
- Women
- Naismith College Player of the Year: Clarissa Davis, Texas
- Naismith College Coach of the Year: Pat Summitt, Tennessee
- Wade Trophy: Shelly Pennefather, Villanova
- Frances Pomeroy Naismith Award: Rhonda Windham, USC
- NCAA Basketball Tournament Most Outstanding Player: Tonya Edwards, Tennessee
- Carol Eckman Award: Jody Conradt, Texas
Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame
- Class of 1987:[1]
Deaths
- April 7 — Pick Dehner, American NBL player (Hammond Ciesar All-Americans), college All-American (Illinois) and high school coach (born 1914)
- April 15 — Press Maravich, American college and professional player and coach (born 1915)
- May 7 — Phil Woolpert, American Hall of Fame college coach (San Francisco) (born 1915)
- June 5 — Joe Bradley, American NBA player (Chicago Stags) (born 1928)
- June 13 — Johnny High, American NBA player (Phoenix Suns) (born 1957)
- August 16 — Nick Vanos, American NBA player (Phoenix Suns) (born 1963)
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