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The following are the basketball events of the year 1998 throughout the world.

Contents

• Championships
• World Championships
• Professional
• College
• Preps
• Awards and honors
• Professional 2
• Collegiate
• Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame
• Movies
• Deaths
• References

Championships

Awards and honors

Movies

• BASEketball
• He Got Game

Deaths

• March 11 — Buddy Jeannette, Hall of Fame NBA, NBL and BAA player (born 1917)
• March 17 — Cliff Barker, American basketball player (born 1921)
• May 15 — Earl "Goat" Manigault, legendary street player (born 1944)
• June 8 — McCoy Ingram, 67, American player (Minneapolis Lakers, Harlem Globetrotters). ^[2]
• July 4 — Jay Taylor, American NBA player (New Jersey Nets) (born 1967)
• August 8 — Sam Balter, member of 1936 US Olympic team (born 1909)
• November 6 — Jack Hartman, American Kansas State University coach (born 1925)
• November 6 — Fred Pralle, All-American college player (Kansas) (born 1916)
• November 13 — Red Holzman, American Basketball Hall of Fame coach who won two NBA championships with the New York Knicks (born 1920)
• December 6 — Radomir Shaper, Serbian player and administrator and FIBA Hall of Fame member (born 1925)

References