* April 30 – Isiah Thomas, American basketball player, coach, and team owner

The Bulls ' founder, Dick Klein, was the only owner to ever play professional basketball ( for the Chicago Gears ).

* Donald Sterling, basketball team owner

* Michael Jordan-Former NBA basketball player, Hall of Fame member, and current majority owner of the NBA's Charlotte Bobcats

Wahoo Public High School is the owner of the third-longest boys ' high school basketball winning streak — 114 straight games — from 1987-88 through the 1991-92 seasons, winning four state championships.

Glen Taylor, owner of the Minnesota Timberwolves and Minnesota Lynx basketball teams and business billionaire, grew up on a farm outside Comfrey.

Berríos became the managing owner of the Caguas Creoles basketball team in 1987, and, later on, acquired the Caguas Creoles women's volleyball team.

The Anaheim Amigos were founded by Art Kim, a Hawaii native who had long been active in basketball as a player, Amateur Athletic Union administrator and owner.

In 1925, while he was the owner of a chain of laundries in Washington, D. C., founded by his father, he owned the Washington Palace Five basketball team, also known as the Palace Five Laundrymen from his laundry chain.

On July 1, Owens ' relationship with the Eagles became even more tense after Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie and club president Joe Banner denied Owens permission to play basketball in a summer league under the auspices of the NBA's Sacramento Kings.

Sports personalities Leigh Bodden, Chip Ganassi, Mike James, baseball hall-of-famer Cumberland Posey, and Chuck Cooper, possibly the first African-American basketball player in the NBA, all graduated from Duquesne, as did both the founder and current owner of the Pittsburgh Steelers, Art and Dan Rooney.

Around 1990, Sonics owner Barry Ackerley made the decision to leave the Kingdome and to build a new basketball arena.

* Mark Anthony King Minor league basketball owner / player

Until August 2005, it was known as Gund Arena, named for Gordon Gund, a former owner of the Cleveland Cavaliers basketball team, after he paid for the naming rights.

Along with placating the San Antonio Spurs owner Red McCombs demands for a larger basketball venue, the multi-purpose facility was intended to increase the city's convention traffic and attract a professional football franchise.

In 2002, she married Herbert Simon, an American businessman who is the owner of the Indiana Pacers basketball team and Simon Property Group.

He was scouting for the Chicago White Sox when he received a call from new Chicago Bulls owner Jerry Reinsdorf to join the Bulls as their new General Manager and once again work in pro basketball.

Brown, founding owner of the Boston Celtics and inductee into the basketball and hockey halls of fame

In the late 1960s, Cleveland Cavaliers owner Nick Mileti announced plans to move the basketball club from Euclid Avenue's Cleveland Arena to a new arena in suburban Richfield Township.

Mikhail Dmitrievitch Prokhorov ( Russian: Михаил Дмитриевич Прóхоров ; born 3 May 1965 ) is a Russian billionaire and owner of the American basketball team the Brooklyn Nets.

Richard DeVos, Sr. ( born March 4, 1926, Grand Rapids, Michigan ) is an American businessman, co-founder of Amway along with Jay Van Andel ( company restructured as Alticor in 2000 ), and owner of the Orlando Magic NBA basketball team.

Richard DeVos is the owner of the National Basketball Association's franchise basketball team, the Orlando Magic, having bought the team in 1991.

Glen A. Taylor ( born April 20, 1941 ) is an American businessman who is the majority owner of the Minnesota Timberwolves basketball team, owner of the Minnesota Lynx WNBA basketball team, and a former member of the Minnesota Senate.

The other long established club in the city ' Os Galitos ' was founded in 1904 and water related sports such as swimming, sailing and rowing are some of its longest traditional strongest specialities, other sections in the club include chess, basketball, snooker, pool and billiards among others, but rowing is the modality in which the club has a maintained a long and proud tradition going back more than one hundred years, reaching the highest possible excellence as a club with several of its individual and team of rowers having represented Portugal Internationally and at the Olympic games with good classifications on more than a just few occasions.

Caltech has athletic teams in baseball, men's and women's basketball, cross country, fencing, men's soccer, swimming and diving, men's and women's tennis, track and field, women's volleyball, and men's and women's water polo.

Geneva also has one of the oldest basketball courts in collegiate sports in the Johnson Gymnasium.

Note: Ringette distances itself from hockey as it has its own set of rules and is closely related to a mix of lacrosse and basketball.

The state's move to this new system has, to some extent, diminished the phenomenon and public opinion is widely split on the merits of " class basketball.

Indiana's collegiate basketball squad, the Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team has several championships to their credit:

* Since joining the Big East in 1995, a Notre Dame basketball player has been crowned Big East Player of the year 5 times.

Indianapolis, headquarters of the National Collegiate Athletic Association and often referred to as the " Amateur Sports Capital of the World " has hosted a number of collegiate basketball events.

In late January 1937, the Pasadena Star-News newspaper reported that Robinson " for two years has been the outstanding athlete at Muir, starring in football, basketball, track, baseball and tennis.

Abdul-Jabbar also has been an actor, a basketball coach, and an author.

Men's basketball has been played at Sprint Center since March 2008, and women's basketball is played at Municipal Auditorium.

The plan has brought about another wave of campus constructions, including the erection the newly renamed Bioscience Research Collaborative building ( intended to foster collaboration with the adjacent Texas Medical Center ), a new recreational center and renovated basketball stadium, and the addition of two new residential colleges, Duncan College and McMurtry College.

In Iowa, which has separate state associations for boys ' and girls ' athletics, the rule applies only to boys ' basketball ; there is no mercy rule for girls ' basketball.

Granada has a basketball team:

Benetton Group has sponsored the Treviso rugby, basketball and volleyball teams for many years, underlining close links with its origins and its city, through a vision of sport that is both competitive and social.

Although Judd is known to attend University of Kentucky basketball games regularly ( frequently sitting in the student section ), she has also attended several Kentucky football games.

It has been host to the University of Memphis NCAA basketball team, the Memphis Grizzlies NBA team, the Great Midwest Conference basketball tournament, the Southeastern Conference basketball tournament, the Conference USA basketball tournaments, and the 2003 Conference USA women's basketball tournament.

The University of Memphis college basketball team, the Memphis Tigers, has a strong following in the city due to a history of competitive success.