List of basketball players who died during their careers

This is a list of players of basketball who died while still on a team roster or a free agent. Included are players in the NBA, college, and other leagues. Players who died following the conclusion of their career should not be included. Each player is listed with team he or she last played for before death, rather than the team the player spent most of his or her playing career with.

In 1977, fourteen members of the Evansville Purple Aces men's basketball team died in a plane crash, along with fifteen others. The players killed were:

David Furr, the lone member of the team who did not board Air Indiana Flight 216, died two weeks later in a car accident, meaning all the members of the team died during the 1977-1978 season.

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