2022 in basketball

The following are basketball events that took place in 2022 throughout the world.
Tournaments include international, professional, and amateur and collegiate levels.

Professional club seasons

FIBA Intercontinental Cup

Champion

Runner-up

Result

Playoff format

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Domestic league seasons

Men

Americas

Deaths

January 15 — Joe B. Hall, 93, American college coach. National championship in 1978.
January 18 — Lorenzo Alocén, 84, Spanish Olympic player.
January 18 — Lusia Harris, 66, American Hall of Fame college and professional player, Olympic silver medalist.
January 19 — Leland Byrd, 94, All-American player and college coach.
January 21 — James Forbes, 69, American Olympic silver medalist.
January 21 — Axel Nikulásson, 59, Icelandic player and coach.
January 26 — Juan Báez, 86, Puerto Rican Olympic player.
February 1 — Stanisław Olejniczak, 83, Polish Olympic player.
February 2 — Bill Fitch, 89, American Hall of Fame NBA and college coach.
February 8 — Bill Lienhard, 92, American college player and Olympic gold medalist. NCAA champion.
February 8 — Jackie Robinson, 94, American Olympic gold medalist.
February 14 — Kenny Ejim, 27, Canadian player.
February 16 — Andrey Lopatov, 64, Russian Olympic bronze medalist.
February 25 — Dick Versace, 81, American college and NBA coach, executive.
March 3 — Rich Yonakor, 63, American NBA player.
March 16 — Dick Knostman, 90, American NBA player and college All-American.
March 16 — Kendall Rhine, 79, American ABA player.
March 18 — Tom Barrise, 68, American NBA coach.
March 18 — Bob Daniels, 86, American college coach.
March 20 — Tom Young, 89, American college coach.
March 22 — Elnardo Webster, 74, American ABA player.
March 24 — Kenny McFadden, 61, New Zealand player and coach.
March 26 — Joe Williams, 88, American college coach.
March 30 — Urbano Zea, 80, Mexican Olympic player.
April 3 — Gene Shue, 90, American NBA player and coach.
April 4 — Petar Skansi, 78, Croatian player and coach, Olympic silver medalist.
April 5 — Lee Rose, 85, American college coach.
April 6 — Abraham Sie, 22, Ivorian player.
April 9 — Inga Freidenfelds, 86, Australian Olympic player.
April 10 — John Drew, 67, American NBA player.
April 11 — Wayne Cooper, 65, American NBA player.
April 16 — Mariano Ortiz, 77, Puerto Rican Olympic player.
April 19 — Freeman Williams, 65, American NBA player.
April 25 — Mike Preaseau, 86, American college player and NCAA champion.
April 28 — Zoran Sretenović, 57, Serbian player and coach, European champion.
May 2 — Nield Gordon, 91, American college coach.
May 6 — Ralph Polson, 92, American NBA player.
May 9 — Tadeusz Grygiel, 68, Polish player.
May 9 — Adreian Payne, 31, American NBA player.
May 10 — Walter Hirsch, 92, American college player.
May 10 — Bob Lanier, 73, American Hall of Fame NBA player and coach.
May 11 — Claude Peter, 74, French player.
May 12 — Larry Holley, 76, American college coach.
May 16 — Algis Ignatavicius, 89, Australian Olympic player.
May 17 — Ademola Okulaja, 46, Nigerian-German player.
May 18 — Sam Smith, 79, American ABA player.
May 21 — Jiří Zídek Sr., 78, Czech Olympic player and coach.
May 27 — Don Goldstein, 84, American college player.
June 4 — Nate Miller, 34, American player.
June 6 — Yves-Marie Vérove, 72, French player and coach.
June 8 — George Thompson, 74, American ABA and NBA player.
June 16 — Mike Pratt, 73, American ABA player, college coach and announcer.
June 17 — Paul Ruffner, 73, American NBA and ABA player.
June 18 — Lennie Rosenbluth, 89, American NBA player and college All-American. NCAA champion.
June 20 — Caleb Swanigan, 25, American NBA player and college All-American.
June 28 — Mike Schuler, 81, American NBA coach.
July 1 — Joe Hatton, 74, Puerto Rican Olympic player.
July 4 — Miguel González, 83, Spanish Olympic player.
July 7 — Pedro Ferrándiz, 93, Spanish Hall of Fame coach.
July 8 — Hugh Evans, 81, American Hall of Fame NBA referee.
July 9 — Bernard Toone, 65, American NBA player.
July 10 — Juan Roca Brunet, 71, Cuban Olympic bronze medalist.
July 21 — Johnny Egan, 83, American NBA player and coach.
July 28 — Franco Casalini, 70, Italian coach.
July 31 — Bill Russell, 88, American Hall of Fame NBA player and coach, Olympic gold medalist. 11-time NBA champion.
August 1 — Carlos Blixen, 85, Uruguayan Olympic bronze medallist.
August 6 — Steve Courtin, 79, American NBA player.
August 6 — Gene Visscher, 81, American college coach.
August 12 — Togo Palazzi, 90, American NBA player and college coach.
August 15 — Pete Carril, 92, American Hall of Fame college coach.
August 16 — Wayne Yates, 84, American NBA player and college coach.
August 18 — István Liptay, 87, Hungarian Olympic player.
August 25 — Radovan Radović, 86, Serbian player and coach, Olympian.
August 26 — Charlie Brown, 86, American college player.
August 29 — Pat McGeer, 95, Canadian Olympic player.
August 31 — Ed Gregory, 91, American college and NBA coach.
September 4 — Saint-Ange Vebobe, 69, French player.
September 12 — Harry Booth, 81, American college coach.
September 22 — Greg Lee, 70, American ABA and NBA player.
September 23 — Celso Scarpini, 77, Brazilian Olympic player.
September 28 — Julio Osorio, 82, Panamanian Olympic player.
October 2 — Chris Harris, 89, British-American NBA player.
October 3 — Ron Franz, 76, American ABA player.
October 3 — Tiffany Jackson, 37, American WNBA player and coach.
October 8 — Julian Hammond, 79, American ABA player.
October 10 — Joe Roberts, 86, American NBA and ABA player and coach.
October 12 — Lucious Jackson, 80, American NBA player and Olympic gold medalist.
October 13 — Rollie Seltz, 98, American NBA player.
October 14 — Stanislav Kropilák, 67, Slovak FIBA Hall of Fame player.
October 21 — Jim Bolla, 70, American college coach.
October 24 — Anatoly Zourpenko, 46, Greek-Russian player.
November 2 — Ron Watts, 79, American NBA player.
November 6 — Pilar Valero, 52, Spanish player.
November 9 — Fred Hickman, 66, American NBA broadcaster and studio host.
November 15 — Gulam Abbas Moontasir, 80, Indian player.
November 16 — Mike Macaluso, 71, American NBA player.
November 16 — Les Wothke, 83, American college coach
November 22 — John Y. Brown Jr., 88, American ABA and NBA owner.
November 23 — John Beasley, 78, American ABA player.
November 26 — Charles Wolf, 96, American NBA coach.
November 27 — Murray Waxman, 97, Canadian Olympic player.
November 29 — Jeff Moore, 56, American college player.
December 3 — Alzhan Zharmukhamedov, 78, Kazakh player and coach, Olympic gold medalist.
December 6 — Worthy Patterson, 91, American NBA player.
December 10 — Paul Silas, 79, American NBA player and coach.
December 11 — Ed Goorjian, 96, American college coach.
December 14 — Billie Moore, 79, American Hall of Fame college basketball coach, Olympic silver medalist.
December 15 — Louis Orr, 64, American NBA player and college coach.
December 19 — Encarna Hernández, 105, Spanish player and coach.
December 19 — Al Smith, 75, American ABA player.
December 23 — Willie Sims, 64, American-Israeli player.
December 23 — Mark Warkentien, 69, American college coach and NBA executive.
December 24 — Kenton Edelin, 60, American NBA player.
December 24 — Andrzej Pstrokoński, 86, Polish Olympic player.
December 25 — Ken Sidwell, 86, American college coach.
December 27 — Arnie Ferrin, 97, American BAA and NBA player and college All-American.