Basketball
| Name | Attended | Notability | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brent Barry | 1990–1995 | National Basketball Association (NBA) shooting guard for the San Antonio Spurs, 1996 Slam Dunk Contest winner, and 2005 & 2007 NBA champion | |
| Vic Bartolome | 1967–1970† | NBA center from 1971–1972 | |
| Lew Beck | ?–1947 | 1948 Summer Olympics gold medalist as a member of the United States men's national basketball team | |
| Corey Benjamin | 1996–1998† | NBA guard from 1998–2003 | |
| Ricky Berry | 1983–1984† | NBA power forward from 1988–1989 | |
| Ray Blume | 1977–1981† | NBA guard from 1981–1982 | |
| Fred Boyd | 1969–1972† | NBA guard from 1972–1978 | |
| Jay Carty | 1959–1962† | NBA power forward from 1968–1969 | |
| Lester Conner | 1980–1982† | NBA point guard from 1982–1995 | |
| Jared Cunningham | 2009–2012† | 2011–12 All-Pac-12 First Team selection | |
| Mel Counts | 1961–1964† | NBA center from 1964–1976, 1965 & 1966 NBA champion, & 1960 Summer Olympics gold medalist as a member of the United States men's national basketball team | |
| Chelle Flamoe | 1986–1989† | Former member of the United States women's national basketball team | |
| Gary Freeman | 1967–1970† | NBA power forward from 1970–1971 | |
| Dave Gambee | 1955–1958† | NBA small forward from 1958–1970 & 1967 NBA champion | |
| Slats Gill‡ | 1920–1924 | Former head coach of the Oregon State Beavers baseball & men's basketball teams and Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame member | |
| A. C. Green | 1981–1985† | NBA power forward from 1985–2001, one-time NBA All-Star, 1987, 1988, & 2000 NBA champion, & holds the NBA record for consecutive games played at 1,192 | |
| Swede Halbrook | 1953–1956† | NBA center from 1960–1962 | |
| Scott Haskin | 1988–1993† | NBA power forward from 1993–1994 | |
| Jim Jarvis | 1962–1965† | NBA guard from 1967–1969 | |
| Steve Johnson | 1976–1981 | NBA center from 1981–1991 and holds the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) men's basketball records for career field goal percentage, single season field goal percentage, field goal percentage as a junior and senior, and is tied for the single game field goal percentage record (12+ field goals attempted) | |
| Tanja Kostic | 1992–1996† | Consensus All-American as a member of the Oregon State Beavers women's basketball team in 1996 and Pacific-10 Conference (Pac-10) Player of the Year in 1995 and 1996 | |
| John Mandic | 1939–1942† | NBA small forward from 1948–1950 | |
| Carol Menken-Schaudt | 1978–1981† | 1984 Summer Olympics gold medalist as a member of the United States women's national basketball team | |
| José Ortiz | 1985–1987† | NBA power forward from 1988–1990 and former member of the Puerto Rico national basketball team | |
| Gary Payton | 1986–1990† | NBA point guard from 1990–2007, nine-time NBA All-Star, two-time All-NBA First Team member, 2006 NBA champion, and 1996 & 2000 Summer Olympics gold medalist as a member of the United States men's national basketball team and Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame member | |
| Loy Petersen | 1965–1968† | NBA guard from 1968–1970 | |
| Mark Radford | 1977–1981† | NBA guard from 1981–1983 | |
| Felicia Ragland | 1998–2002† | Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) player from 2002–2005 | |
| Red Rocha | 1944–1947† | NBA center from 1947–1957, two-time NBA All-Star, 1955 NBA champion, & former head coach of the Detroit Pistons and the Hawaii Rainbow Warriors men's basketball team | |
| Lonnie Shelton | 1973–1973† | NBA small forward from 1976–1986 & 1979 NBA champion | |
| Charlie Sitton | 1980–1984† | NBA small forward from 1984–1985 |
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Famous quotes containing the word basketball:
“Perhaps basketball and poetry have just a few things in common, but the most important is the possibility of transcendence. The opposite is labor. In writing, every writer knows when he or she is laboring to achieve an effect. You want to get from here to there, but find yourself willing it, forcing it. The equivalent in basketball is aiming your shot, a kind of strained and usually ineffective purposefulness. What you want is to be in some kind of flow, each next moment a discovery.”
—Stephen Dunn (b. 1939)