2015 in basketball
The following are the basketball events that are expected to take place in 2015 throughout the world.
Tournaments include international, professional and amateur and collegiate levels.
National team tournaments
Summer Olympics qualifying
- Teams that qualified to the Olympics are boldfaced.
Men
- AfroBasket 2015 at Tunisia:
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- 2015 FIBA Americas Championship at Mexico:
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- 2015 FIBA Asia Championship at China:
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- EuroBasket 2015 at France, Croatia, Latvia and Germany:
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- 2015 FIBA Oceania Championship at Australia and New Zealand:
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Women
- AfroBasket Women 2015 at Cameroon:
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- 2015 FIBA Americas Women's Championship at Canada:
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- 2015 FIBA Asia Women's Championship at China:
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- EuroBasket Women 2015 at Hungary and Romania:
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- 2015 FIBA Oceania Women's Championship at Australia and New Zealand:
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Basketball at multi-sport events
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- 2015 All-Africa Games in Brazzaville:
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- 2015 Games of the Small States of Europe in Iceland:
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- 2015 Island Games in Jersey:
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- 2015 Pacific Games in Port Moresby:
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- 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto:
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- 2015 Southeast Asian Games in Singapore:
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- 2015 Summer Universiade in Gwangju:
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Women
- 2015 All-Africa Games in Brazzaville:
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- 2015 Island Games in Jersey:
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- 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto:
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- 2015 Summer Universiade in Gwangju:
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FIBA World Under-19 Championship
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- 2015 FIBA Under-19 World Championship in Greece:
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Women
- 2015 FIBA Under-19 World Championship for Women in Russia:
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FIBA World Under-17 Championship qualifying
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- 2015 FIBA Africa Under-16 Championship at Mali:
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- 2015 FIBA Americas Under-16 Championship at Argentina:
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- 2015 FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship at Lithuania:
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Women
- 2015 FIBA Africa Under-16 Championship for Women at Madagascar:
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- 2015 FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship for Women at Macedonia:
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Notable events
- January 25 – Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski becomes the first NCAA Division I men's coach with 1,000 career wins, following the Blue Devils' 77–68 win over St. John's at Madison Square Garden.
- February 3
- * Connecticut women's coach Geno Auriemma becomes the fastest coach to 900 wins in college basketball history at any level, following the Huskies' 96–36 home blowout of Cincinnati. Auriemma reached 900 wins in 1,034 games; the previous record was 1,072 by Pat Summitt, while the record in men's basketball is 1,183 games by Krzyzewski. Auriemma also becomes the first man ever to reach the 900-win mark in NCAA women's basketball; the previous six coaches to do so are all women.
- * WNBA star Diana Taurasi announces that she will sit out the 2015 season at the behest of her Russian club, UMMC Ekaterinburg. The club, which already has her under contract for about US$1.5 million a season, is reportedly paying her more than the WNBA maximum salary of $107,000 as a bonus to skip the WNBA season.
- February 7 – Herb Magee, coach at NCAA Division II Philadelphia University since 1967, becomes the second NCAA men's coach with 1,000 career wins following the Rams' 80–60 win over Post.
Awards and honors
Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame
- Players: Louie Dampier, Spencer Haywood, John Isaacs, Lisa Leslie, Dikembe Mutombo, Jo Jo White
- Coaches: John Calipari, Lindsay Gaze, Tom Heinsohn
- Referees: Dick Bavetta
- Contributors: George Raveling
Women's Basketball Hall of Fame
FIBA Hall of Fame
- Players: Anne Donovan, Michael Jordan, Ruperto Herrera Tabio, Šarūnas Marčiulionis, Antoine Rigaudeau, Vladimir Tkachenko
- Coaches: Jan Stirling
- Officials: Robert Blanchard
- Contributors: Noah Klieger
Deaths
- January 4 — Jack Parr, American NBA player
- January 4 — Stuart Scott, American NBA television studio host
- January 9 — Ah Chew Goo, American college coach
- January 9 — Roy Tarpley, American NBA player
- January 14 — Bob Boyd, American college coach
- January 16 — Ray Lumpp, American NBA player and Olympic champion
- January 17 — Roderick McDonald, American ABA player
- January 18 — Milt Schoon, American NBL player
- January 27 — Bob Shea, American BAA player
- January 30 — Carl Boldt, American college player who won an NCAA national championship in 1955–56
- January 30 — Ben Schadler, American BAA/NBL player
- February 1 — Ron Johnson, American NBA player
- February 5 — Don Suman, American college coach
- February 6 — Norm Drucker, American NBA and ABA official
- February 7 — Dean Smith, American Hall of Fame college coach
- February 9 — Ken Cunningham, American college coach
- February 10 — Wayne Dobbs, American college coach
- February 11 — Jerry Tarkanian, American Hall of Fame college and NBA coach
- February 15 — Terry Truax, American college coach
- February 18 — Jerome Kersey, American NBA player
- February 20 — Dick Triptow, American NBA player
- February 26 — Earl Lloyd, American NBA player and coach, first African-American to play in the NBA, Hall of Fame member as a contributor
- February 28 — Anthony Mason, American NBA player
- March 1 — Guram Minashvili, Georgian Olympic silver medalist
- March 1 — Chris Welp, German NBA and Euroleague player
- March 4 — Stacey Arceneaux, American NBA player
- March 6 — Enrique "Coco" Vicéns, Puerto Rican player
- March 16 — Chet Giermak, All-American college player
- March 16 — Jack Haley, American NBA player
- March 21 — Warren Womble, American AAU and Olympic coach
- March 23 — Bobby Lowther, American NBL player
- March 25 — Loy Young, American college coach
- March 27 — Hot Rod Hundley, American NBA player and announcer
- April 7 — Torrey Ward, American player and coach
- April 10 — Lauren Hill, American college basketball player and pediatric cancer advocate who died of brain cancer during her freshman season at Mount St. Joseph
- April 11 — Charlie Beasley, American ABA player
- April 13 — Gerald Calabrese, American NBA player
- April 25 — Mike Phillips, American Liga ACB player and college national champion
- May 10 — Davey Whitney, American Hall of Fame college coach
- May 11 — Bob Light, American college coach
- May 12 — Bill Guthridge, American college coach
- May 15 — Bob Hopkins, American NBA player and coach
- May 22 — Marques Haynes, American Hall of Fame Harlem Globetrotters player
- May 23 — Boody Gilbertson, American NBL player
- May 23 — Andres Ortiz, Puerto Rican player
- May 26 — Walter Byers, Executive Director of the NCAA, College Basketball Hall of Fame inductee
- May 27 — Vittorio Paolo Fiorito, Italian referee
- May 27 — Bill Foster, American college coach
- June 3 — Bevo Francis, American college player
- June 14 — Bob Bedell, American ABA player
- June 23 — Harvey Pollack, Director of Statistical Information for the Philadelphia 76ers
- June 29 — Jackson Vroman, American-born Lebanese NBA player
- July 20 — George Bon Salle, American NBA player
- July 25 — Bob Kauffman, American NBA player
- July 30 — John Weinert, American college coach
- August 3 — Frank Kerns, American college coach
- August 4 — John Rudometkin, American NBA player
- August 10 — Cleo Hill, American NBA player
- August 22 — Lou Tsioropoulos, American NBA player
- August 24 — Bevo Nordmann, American NBA player
- August 27 — Darryl Dawkins, American NBA player
- September 11 — Roy Marble, American NBA player
- September 13 — Moses Malone, American Hall of Fame ABA and NBA player
- September 21 — Ivan Dvorny, Russian/Soviet Olympic Gold medalist
- September 25 — Bill Bridges, American NBA player
- September 25 — Tommie Green, American NBA player and college coach
- October 4 — Neal Walk, American NBA player
- October 7 — Harry Gallatin, American Hall of Fame NBA player and coach
- October 9 — Dave Meyers, American NBA player and college All-American
- October 15 — Nate Huffman, American NBA and Euroleague player
- October 18 — Tommy O'Keefe, American NBA player
- October 19 — D. C. Wilcutt, American NBA player
- October 20 — Makis Dendrinos, Greek player and coach
- October 25 — Flip Saunders, American NBA coach
- October 26 — Zeke Hogeland, American college coach
- October 29 — Luther Burden, American ABA and NBA player
- October 29 — Boris Kristančič, Slovenian/Yugoslav Olympic player
- October 29 — Ranko Žeravica, Serbian coach
- October 30 — Mel Daniels, American Hall of Fame ABA player
- November 10 — Michael Wright, American-born Turkish player
- November 11 — Scotty Stirling, American ABA and NBA executive
- November 14 — Norm Ellenberger, American college coach
- November 26 — Guy Lewis, American Hall of Fame college coach
- November 26 — Bill Stauffer, American college player
- December 1 — Jim Loscutoff, American NBA player
- December 5 — Dave Scholz, American NBA player
- December 10 — Dolph Schayes, American Hall of Fame NBA player
- December 11 — John "Hot Rod" Williams, American NBA player
- December 16 — John Bates, American college coach
- December 21 — Lim Eng Beng, Filipino basketball player
- December 23 — Chen Luyun, Chinese basketball player
- December 24 — Ron Jacobs, American college and professional coach
- December 26 — Mac Otten, American NBA player
- December 27 — Meadowlark Lemon, American Hall of Fame player
- December 28 — Dave Campbell, Canadian Olympic player