Deaths
- January 8 — Paul Endacott, Hall of Fame player for the Kansas Jayhawks (b. 1902)
- February 2 — Raimundo Saporta, former head of Real Madrid basketball and FIBA Hall of Fame member (b. 1926)
- March 6 — Roger Brown, player for Indiana Pacers (b. 1942)
- April 18 — Francis Johnson, member of 1936 US Olympic champion team (b. 1910)
- May 16 — Bones McKinney, former coach of the Wake Forest Demon Deacons and early NBA player (b. 1919)
- December 23 — Lester Harrison, Hall of Fame coach of the 1951 NBA Champion Rochester Royals (b. 1904)
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“As deaths have accumulated I have begun to think of life and death as a set of balance scales. When one is young, the scale is heavily tipped toward the living. With the first death, the first consciousness of death, the counter scale begins to fall. Death by death, the scales shift weight until what was unthinkable becomes merely a matter of gravity and the fall into death becomes an easy step.”
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