The following are the basketball events of the year 2001 throughout the world.

Contents

• Championships
• Professional
• College
• Awards and honors
• Professional 2
• Collegiate
• Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame
• Women's Basketball Hall of Fame
• Movies
• Deaths
• References

Championships

Awards and honors

Movies

• Pistol Pete: The Life and Times of Pete Maravich

Deaths

• January 7 — Ken Durrett, American NBA player and All-American at La Salle University (born 1948)
• January 17 — Garland O'Shields, American NBA player (Chicago Stags, Syracuse Nationals) (born 1921)
• January 26 — Al McGuire, Hall of Fame coach at Marquette and famed college basketball announcer (born 1928)
• February 3 — Bobby Colburn, American NBL player for the Dayton Metropolitans (born 1911)
• February 19 — Guy Rodgers, Hall of Fame player for the Philadelphia and San Francisco Warriors (born 1935)
• February 20 — Harry Boykoff, former St. John's and early NBA player (born 1922)
• April 25 — Clovis Stark, American NBL for the Dayton Metropolitans (born 1914)
• April 29 — Andy Phillip, Hall of Fame NBA player (born 1922)
• May 15 — Ralph Miller, Hall of Fame college coach at Wichita State, Iowa and Oregon State (born 1919)
• June 26 — George Senesky, NBA player and coach for the Philadelphia Warriors (born 1922)
• August 1 — Dwight Eddleman, All-American at Illinois and two-time NBA All-Star (born 1922)
• September 5 — Cawood Ledford, American radio announcer (Kentucky Wildcats) (born 1926)
• September 14 — George Ireland, coach of the 1963 NCAA national champion Loyola Ramblers (born 1913)
• October 13 — B. L. Graham, All-American college player and head coach (Ole Miss Rebels) (born 1914)
• October 20 — Nebojša Popović, Serbian player, coach and administrator and FIBA Hall of Fame member (born 1923)
• November 18 — Renato Righetto, Brazilian referee and FIBA Hall of Fame member (born 1921)
• November 23 — Gus Broberg, two-time All-American forward at Dartmouth College (born 1920)
• November 28 — Bob Cope, American college coach (Montana) (born 1928)
• December 8 — Mirza Delibašić, FIBA Hall of Fame player from Bosnia and 1980 Olympic Gold Medalist (born 1954)
• December 10 — Gus Doerner, American NBL player (Fort Wayne Pistons, Indianapolis Kautskys) (born 1922)
• December 13 – Larry Costello, American All-Star NBA player (Philadelphia 76ers) (born 1931)

References