2011 in basketball

The following are the basketball events of the year 2011 throughout the world.

Tournaments include international (FIBA), professional (club) and amateur and collegiate levels.

Tournaments

Club championships

Awards and honors

Events

• On June 1, Shaquille O'Neal announced his retirement from basketball after 19 seasons and four world championships. O'Neal made the announcement on his Twitter page.^[4]
• On July 1, the collective bargaining agreement between the NBA and its players union expires, and the league immediately imposes a lockout of its players.
• On July 20, Yao Ming officially announced his retirement from basketball after nine seasons and a series of foot and ankle injuries. Yao has been credited with fueling greatly increased interest in the NBA in his home country of China since his selection as the #1 overall pick in the 2002 NBA draft.^[5]
• On September 26, New Jersey Nets minority owner Jay-Z announced that the team would change its name to the Brooklyn Nets when it moves to its new arena for the 2012–13 season.^[6]

Movies

• The Fab Five – an ESPN Films documentary about the 1990s Michigan Wolverines players known collectively as the Fab Five: Chris Webber, Jalen Rose, Juwan Howard, Jimmy King, and Ray Jackson
• Off the Rez – a TLC documentary chronicling the high school career of current University of Louisville women's player Shoni Schimmel, a Native American who grew up on an Oregon reservation
• Runnin' Rebels of UNLV – a Home Box Office documentary chronicling the UNLV men's team's success in the late 1980s through early 1990s
• Salaam Dunk
• Unguarded – an ESPN Films documentary about former NBA player Chris Herren, including his struggle with and ongoing recovery from drug addiction

Deaths

• January 12 — Howard Engleman, All-American player and interim head coach for the Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball team (born 1919)
• February 2 — Roger Strickland, NBA player (Baltimore Bullets) (born 1940)
• February 4 — Lee Winfield, NBA player (Seattle SuperSonics, Buffalo Braves, Kansas City Kings) (born 1947)
• February 6 — Cesare Rubini, Italian coach and member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (born 1923)
• February 20 — Troy Jackson, better known by his nickname "Escalade", streetball player for the AND1 Mixtape Tour (born 1976)
• March 4 — Ed Manning, NBA and ABA player and father of 1988 #1 overall NBA Draft pick Danny Manning (born 1943)
• March 7 — Rudy Salud, former commissioner of the Philippine Basketball Association (born 1938)
• March 22 — Edgar Lacey, ABA player (Los Angeles Stars) and national champion at UCLA (born 1944)
• April 2 — Larry Finch, college coach and player (Memphis) (born 1951)
• April 10 — Bob Shaw, American NBL player (born 1921)
• April 14 — Joe Dan Gold, college player and coach (Mississippi State) (born 1942)
• April 15 — Beryl Shipley, college coach (Southwestern Louisiana) (born 1926)
• May 11 — Robert Traylor, NBL and NBA player (Milwaukee Bucks, Cleveland Cavaliers, Charlotte Hornets) (born 1977)
• May 27 — Margo Dydek, Polish WNBA player (Utah Starzz, San Antonio Silver Stars, Connecticut Sun, Los Angeles Sparks) (born 1974)
• June 6 — Bill Closs, NBA player (Philadelphia Warriors, Fort Wayne Pistons) (born 1922)
• June 9 — Mike Mitchell, NBA player (Cleveland Cavaliers, San Antonio Spurs) (born 1956)
• June 15 — Marshall Rogers, NBA player (Golden State Warriors) and the 1976 NCAA Division I season scoring leader (born 1953)
• June 27 — Lorenzo Charles, NBA player (Atlanta Hawks) famous for hitting the game-winning shot of the 1983 NCAA tournament for NC State (born 1963)
• July 1 — Bob McCann, NBA player (five teams) (born 1964)
• July 5 — Neil Dougherty, college coach (TCU) (born 1961)
• July 5 — Armen Gilliam, NBA player (six teams) (born 1964)
• July 9 — Don Ackerman, NBA player (New York Knicks) (born 1930)
• July 16 — Joe McNamee, NBA player (Rochester Royals, Baltimore Bullets) (born 1926)
• July 30 — Bob Peterson, NBA player (Baltimore Bullets, Milwaukee Hawks, New York Knicks) (born 1932)
• August 3 — Ray Patterson, NBA executive (Milwaukee Bucks, Houston Rockets)
• August 4 — Sherman White, college player at Long Island famous for being indicted in point shaving scandal (born 1928)
• August 8 — Mike Barrett, ABA player and Olympic gold medalist in 1968 (born 1943)
• August 18 — Scotty Robertson, NBA and college coach (born 1930)
• August 27 — Bob Hubbard, American NBL and BAA player (born 1922)
• August 31 — Cal Christensen, NBA player (Milwaukee Hawks, Cincinnati Royals) (born 1927)
• August 31 — Jack Stephens, NBA player (St. Louis Hawks) (born 1933)
• September 14 — Lewis Brown, NBA player (Washington Bullets) (born 1955)
• September 16 — Dave Gavitt, American basketball coach (Providence College) and founder of the Big East Conference; member of the Naismith Hall as a contributor (born 1937)
• September 17 — Fedon Matheou, Greek basketball player and coach (born 1924)
• September 21 — Mickey Rottner, American NBL (Sheboygan Red Skins) and BAA (Chicago Stags) player (born 1919)
• September 22 — John H. Dick, starter on first NCAA championship team (1939 Oregon Ducks) (born 1918)
• September 30 — Peter Gent, standout forward/center for Michigan State from 1962–64 and author of North Dallas Forty (born 1942)
• October 3 — Jim Neal, NBA player (Syracuse Nationals) (born 1930)
• October 9 — Antonis Christeas, Greek basketball player (Panellinios, AEK Athens) (born 1937)
• October 9 — Chauncey Hardy, 23-year-old American playing professionally in Romania (born 1988)
• October 12 — Lewis Mills, college coach (Richmond) and athletic director
• November 2 — Ilmar Kullam, Olympic silver medalist for the Soviet Union in 1952 (born 1922)
• November 8 — Ed Macauley, Hall of Fame player (St. Louis Hawks) (born 1928)
• November 9 — Bob Carney, NBA player (Minneapolis Lakers) (born 1932)
• November 17 — Kurt Budke, women's college basketball coach (Oklahoma State) (born 1961)
• November 18 — Walt Hazzard, NBA player and college coach (UCLA) (born 1942)
• November 22 — Alberto Reynoso, Philippine Basketball Association player (born 1940)
• November 25 — Hoddy Mahon, College basketball coach (Seton Hall)
• November 30 — George McCarty, College coach (New Mexico State, UTEP) (born 1915)
• December 1 — Dick Wehr, BAA player (Indianapolis Jets) and college coach (Georgia State) (born 1925)

See also

• Timeline of women's basketball

References

External links

Media related to 2011 in basketball at Wikimedia Commons