2010 in Basketball - Deaths

Deaths

  • January 19 — Dan Fitzgerald, college coach (Gonzaga) (born 1942)
  • January 28 — Bud Millikan, coach of the Maryland Terrapins (born 1920)
  • February 3 — Dick McGuire, Hall of Fame player for the New York Knicks (born 1926)
  • February 10 — Carl Braun, player and coach for the New York Knicks (born 1927)
  • February 10 — Fred Schaus, former coach of West Virginia University and the Los Angeles Lakers (born 1925)
  • February 13 — Red Rocha, player for the BAA and NBA (born 1925)
  • February 15 — Dana Kirk, former college coach at Memphis State University (born 1936)
  • June 4 — John Wooden, Hall of Fame player (Purdue, Indianapolis Kautskys) and coach (UCLA) (born 1910)
  • June 13 — Tom Stith, All-American at St. Bonaventure University (born 1939)
  • June 19 — Manute Bol, retired NBA player, tallest player in league history (born 1962)
  • July 8 — Melvin Turpin, All-American at Kentucky and NBA veteran (born 1960)
  • July 16 — Aleksandr Boloshev, Russian Olympic champion (born 1947)
  • July 19 — Lorenzen Wright, retired NBA player (born 1975)
  • October 14 — Larry Siegfried, won five NBA titles with the Boston Celtics and an NCAA title at Ohio State (born 1939)
  • October 25 — Roy Skinner, former college coach at Vanderbilt (born 1930)
  • October 31 — Maurice Lucas, former ABA and NBA player. Won an NBA championship with the Portland Trail Blazers in 1977 (born 1952)
  • November 8 — Quintin Dailey, former All-American at San Francisco and NBA player (born 1961)
  • December 6 — Art Quimby, former NCAA rebounding leader; a Connecticut Huskie of Honor (born 1933)
  • December 6 — Hank Raymonds, former Marquette coach (born 1924)

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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:

    “On almost the incendiary eve
    Of deaths and entrances ...”
    —Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)

    “There is the guilt all soldiers feel for having broken the taboo against killing, a guilt as old as war itself. Add to this the soldier’s sense of shame for having fought in actions that resulted, indirectly or directly, in the deaths of civilians. Then pile on top of that an attitude of social opprobrium, an attitude that made the fighting man feel personally morally responsible for the war, and you get your proverbial walking time bomb.”
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