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The following are the
basketball events of the year
1990 throughout the world.
Basketball competitions taking place in 1990
The
1990 FIBA World Championship for Women took place in
Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia, and was won by the United States.
Winners of major team competitions 1989–1990
- Europe
- Americas
- Africa, Asia, Oceania
- Europe
- Americas
- Africa, Asia, Oceania
- March 4 —
Hank Gathers, American college player (
Loyola Marymount) (born 1967)
- April 12 —
Irving Terjesen, American NBL player (
Akron Firestone Non-Skids) (born 1915)
- April 22 —
Bob Davies, American Hall of Fame player (
Rochester Royals) (born 1920)
- May 21 —
Ed Steitz, American college coach (
Springfield) and Hall of Fame NCAA administrator (born 1920)
- August 12 —
James Stewart, Canadian Olympic silver medalist (
1936) (born 1910)
- August 31 —
Nathaniel Clifton, American player (
New York Knicks,
Detroit Pistons) (born 1922)
- September 28 —
Larry O'Brien, third
commissioner of the NBA (
1975—
1984) (born 1917)
- October 7 —
John "Cat" Thompson, American Hall of Fame college player (
Montana State) (born 1906)
- October 11 —
Ken Spain, American ABA player (
Pittsburgh Condors) and Olympic gold medalist (
1968) (born 1946)
- October 25 —
Bennie Oosterbaan, All-American college player (
Michigan) (born 1906)