2020 in basketball
The following are the basketball events of the year 2020 throughout the world.
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The following are basketball events that are expected to take place in 2020 throughout the world. Tournaments include international (FIBA), professional (club), and amateur and collegiate levels.
International tournaments
National senior team tournaments
3X3 championships
Other international championships
FIBA youth championships
Professional club seasons
FIBA Intercontinental Cup
| Champion | Runner-up | Result | Playoff format |
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80–72 | One-game playoff |
Continental seasons
Men
| Organizer | Tournament | Champion | Runner-up | Result | Playoff format |
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| Euroleague Basketball | 2019–20 EuroLeague | All canceled due to coronavirus pandemic in Europe. | |||
| 2019–20 EuroCup Basketball | |||||
| FIBA | 2020 FIBA Asia Champions Cup | ||||
| 2019–20 Basketball Champions League | |||||
| 2019–20 BCLA season | |||||
| 2019–20 FIBA Europe Cup | |||||
| NBA/FIBA | 2020 BAL season | ||||
Women
| Organizer | Tournament | Champion | Runner-up | Result | Playoff format |
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| FIBA | 2019–20 EuroLeague Women | ||||
| 2019–20 EuroCup Women |
Regional seasons
Men
| Region | League | Champion | Runner-up | Result | Playoff format |
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| Former Yugoslavia | 2019–20 ABA League | All canceled due to coronavirus pandemic in Europe. | |||
| 2019–20 ABA 2nd League | |||||
| Southeast Asia | 2019–20 ABL season | ||||
| Alpe-Adria | 2019–20 Alpe Adria Cup | ||||
| Estonia and Latvia | 2019–20 Latvian–Estonian Basketball League | ||||
| Balkans | 2019–20 BIBL | ||||
Women
| Region | League | Champion | Runner-up | Result | Playoff format |
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| Southeast Europe | 2019–20 WABA League |
Domestic league seasons
Men
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- Includes one team from New Zealand.
- Includes one team from Monaco.
- Panathinaikos named champion after the premature ending of the league due to the coronavirus pandemic in Greece
- Basketball on the island of Ireland, including the league system, is organised on an All-Ireland basis. As such, the national league includes one team from Northern Ireland, which is politically part of the United Kingdom.
- Žalgiris named champion after the premature ending of the league due to the coronavirus pandemic in Lithuania
- Includes one team each from Belarus, Estonia, Kazakhstan, and Latvia. The highest-ranked team from Russia is also named as Russian Champions.
- Includes one team from Andorra.
- The NBA and the G League each include one team from Canada.
Women
| Nation | Tournament | Champion | Runner-up | Result | Playoff format |
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2019–20 WNBL season | ||||
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2019–20 Ligue Féminine de Basketball | ||||
| 2019–20 Women's French Basketball Cup | |||||
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2019–20 Úrvalsdeild kvenna | ||||
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2019–20 Liga Națională | ||||
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2019–20 First Women's League | Canceled due to coronavirus pandemic in Serbia. | |||
| 2019–20 Milan Ciga Vasojević Cup | Kraljevo | Radivoj Korać | 76–73 | Single-game final | |
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2019–20 Liga Femenina de Baloncesto | ||||
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2020 WNBA season | ||||
College seasons
Men's
| Nation | League / Tournament | Champions | Runners-up | Result | Playoff format |
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2020 U Sports Men's Basketball Championship | Carleton Ravens | Dalhousie Tigers | 74–65 | Single-game final |
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2019 PCCL National Collegiate Championship | Ateneo Blue Eagles | San Beda Red Lions | 57–46 | Single-game final |
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NCAA Division I | All cancelled due to coronavirus disease pandemic in the U.S. | |||
| National Invitation Tournament | |||||
| NCAA Division II | |||||
| NCAA Division III | |||||
| NAIA Division I | |||||
| NAIA Division II | |||||
Women's
| Nation | League / Tournament | Champions | Runners-up | Result | Playoff format |
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2020 U Sports Women's Basketball Championship | Saskatchewan Huskies | Brock Badgers | 82–61 | Single-game final |
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UAAP Season 83 | ||||
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NCAA Division I | All cancelled due to coronavirus disease pandemic in the U.S. | |||
| Women's National Invitation Tournament | |||||
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Deaths
- January 1 — Roland Minson, 90, All-American college player (BYU).[1]
- January 1 — David Stern, 77, American NBA commissioner (1984–2014).[2]
- January 2 — Gale McArthur, 90, All-American college player (Oklahoma State).[3]
- January 12 — Dick Schnittker, 91, American two-time NBA champion (Minneapolis Lakers) and college All-American (Ohio State).[4]
- January 14 — Carl McNulty, 89, American NBA player (Milwaukee Hawks).[5]
- January 15 — Milovan Stepandić, 65, Serbian coach (OKK Šabac, KK Borac Čačak, KK Metalac Valjevo).[6]
- January 16 — Gene Schwinger, 87, All-American college player (Rice).[7]
- January 21 — Morgan Wootten, 88, American Hall of Fame high school coach (DeMatha).[8]
- January 23 — Robert Archibald, 39, Scottish NBA player (Memphis Grizzlies, Phoenix Suns, Orlando Magic, Toronto Raptors).[9]
- January 23 — Kalevi Tuominen, 92, Finnish player (Tampereen Pyrintö) and coach (Finland national team).[10]
- January 26 — Kobe Bryant, 41, American NBA player (Los Angeles Lakers), five-time NBA champion, two-time Olympic gold medalist (2008, 2012).[11]
- January 29 — Blagoja Georgievski, 69, Macedonian player (Rabotnički), Olympic silver medalist (1976).[12]
- February 2 — Peter Aluma, 46, Nigerian NBA player (Sacramento Kings).[13]
- February 2 — Ryszard Olszewski, 87, Polish Olympic player (1960).[14]
- February 5 — Bill Oates, 80, American college coach (Saint Mary's, Menlo, The Master's).[15][16]
- February 6 — Dick Atha, 88, American NBA player (New York Knicks, Detroit Pistons).[17]
- February 16 — Henry Akin, 75, American NBA and ABA player (New York Knicks, Seattle SuperSonics, Kentucky Colonels).[18]
- February 16 — Ed Murphy, 78, American college coach (Ole Miss, West Georgia).[19]
- March — Jeff Taylor, 60, American NBA player (Houston Rockets, Detroit Pistons).[20]
- March 5 — Levan Moseshvili, 79, Georgian player, Olympic silver medalist (1964).
- March 18 — John Erickson, 92, American college coach (Lake Forest, Wisconsin) and NBA general manager (Milwaukee Bucks).[21]
- March 20 — Borislav Stanković, 94, Hall of Fame Serbian player and coach, Secretary General of FIBA.[22]
- March 21 — Leroy Wright, 82, American ABA player (Pittsburgh Pipers).[23]
- March 25 — Aric del Rosario, 80, Filipino coach (UST Growling Tigers, Pampanga Dragons, Perpetual Altas).[24]
- March 26 — Curly Neal, 77, American player (Harlem Globetrotters).[25]
- March 27 — Les Hunter, 77, American NBA and ABA player, college national champion at Loyola (1963).[26]
- April 2 — Carl Tacy, 87, American college coach (Marshall, Wake Forest).[27]
- April 7 — Harv Schmidt, 83, American college player and coach (Illinois).[28]
- April 12 — Sascha Hupmann, 49, German player (Evansville, Alba Berlin, Panathinaikos).[29]
- April 13 — Charlie Harrison, 70, American college coach (New Mexico, East Carolina).[30]
- April 15 — Alfonso Marquez, 82, Filipino Olympic player (1960, 1968).[31]
- April 23 — Chris Marcus, 40, American college player (Western Kentucky).[32]
- April 26 — Abolfazl Salabi, 95, Iranian Olympic player (1948).[33]
- April 27 — Mark McNamara, 60, American NBA player (Philadelphia 76ers, Kansas City Kings, San Antonio Spurs, Los Angeles Lakers, Orlando Magic).[34]
- April 29 — Gerson Victalino, 60, Brazilian Olympic player (1984, 1988, 1992).[35]
- May 1 — Lajos Engler, 91, Serbian player (KK Proleter Zrenjanin, KK Partizan)[36]
- May 2 — Maret-Mai Otsa, 89, Estonian player, FIBA World champion (1959).[37]
- May 4 — Álvaro Teherán, 54, Colombian player (Baloncesto Málaga, Fort Wayne Fury, KK Olimpija).[38]
- May 5 — Sonny Cox, 82, American high school coach (King College Prep).[39]
- May 7 — Mike Storen, 84, American professional league commissioner (ABA, CBA, GBA) and ABA/NBA executive (Indiana Pacers, Kentucky Colonels, Atlanta Hawks).[40]
- May 8 — Johnny McCarthy, 86, American NBA player (Cincinnati Royals, St. Louis Hawks, Boston Celtics) and coach (Buffalo Braves, Canisius).[41]
- May 14 — Jim Tucker, 87, American NBA player (Syracuse Nationals) and college All-American (Duquesne).[42]
- May 16 — Tony Yates, 82, American college All-American player and coach (Cincinnati), two-time NCAA champion (1961, 1962).[43]
- May 19 — Ken Burmeister, 72, American college coach (UTSA, Loyola, Incarnate Word).[44]
- May 22 — Jerry Sloan, 78, American NBA player (Baltimore Bullets, Chicago Bulls) and Hall of Fame coach (Chicago Bulls, Utah Jazz).[45]
- May 23 — Eddie Sutton, 84, American Hall of Fame college basketball coach (Creighton, Arkansas, Kentucky, Oklahoma State).[46]
- June 2 – Wes Unseld, 74, American Hall of Fame NBA player, coach and executive (Baltimore/Capital/Washington Bullets) and college All-American (Louisville).[47]
- June 10 — Harry Glickman, 96, American NBA executive and co-founder of the Portland Trail Blazers.[48]
- June 11 — Cy Strulovitch, 94, Canadian Olympic player (1948).[49]
- June 13 — Dick Garmaker, 87, American NBA player (Minneapolis Lakers, New York Knicks) and college All-American (Minnesota).[50]
- June 13 — Nic Jorge, 78, Filipino coach and administrator.[51]
See also
References
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- "Former Wake Forest Basketball Coach Carl Tacy Passes Away". Wake Forest Athletics Communications. Retrieved April 2, 2020.
- Schmidt 'righted the program’ in aftermath of slush-fund scandal at Illinois
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