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Basketball has a considerably higher ratio of African-Americans than other sports. [4] Other deaths were caused by drug abuse. [5] Included are NBA players, WNBA players, college players, and players in other notable leagues who died before their retirement from basketball. Players who died following the conclusion of their career should not be ...
5 Coach and 4 tennis players from Anderson College (now University) were killed; 2 players survived. [35] 14 August 1979: Fastnet Race sailing crews: Yacht racing: Sailboat: Celtic Sea: 21: 15 competitors and 6 observers died at sea in a violent storm. [36] 21 January 1984: University of Oregon: Wrestling: Bus: Oregon, United States: 2
Michael Terrence Holland (April 2, 1942 – February 26, 2023) was an American college athletics administrator and basketball player and coach. Holland served as the head men's basketball coach at Davidson College from 1969 to 1974 and at the University of Virginia from 1974 to 1990, compiling a career college basketball coaching record of 418–216.
A basketball player at Alabama's University of Mobile is dead after collapsing after a gym workout, according to his coach. Kaiden Francis was a freshman basketball player from Fort Lauderdale ...
The National Basketball Association (NBA) contingency plan activates if five or more players on a team "die or are dismembered". [1] [3] A special "disaster draft" would be held in which other NBA teams could only protect five players, [3] [4] so that quality sixth men would be available. No more than one player would be drafted from a team. [1]
The murder of Patrick Dennehy, an American college basketball player for Baylor University, occurred on June 12, 2003, when he was shot by teammate Carlton Dotson. [1] The murder set off a chain of events which led to a broader scandal in which Baylor's basketball program was investigated and punished for numerous infractions by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA).
Kobe Bryant (right), former Los Angeles Lakers player, being interviewed by Iván Kasanzew 11 days before the crash.. On Sunday, January 26, 2020, at approximately 9:06 a.m. PST (17:06 UTC), [3] eight passengers and one pilot departed from John Wayne Airport (SNA) in Orange County, California, in a 1991 Sikorsky S-76B helicopter, registration N72EX.
Kobe Bean Bryant (/ ˈ k oʊ b i / KOH-bee; August 23, 1978 – January 26, 2020) was an American professional basketball player. A shooting guard, he spent his entire 20-year career with the Los Angeles Lakers in the National Basketball Association (NBA).