Former basketball players

John Oldham (basketball coach)

John Oldham is a former college player, athletic director and basketball coach who gave the idea of Western Kentucky University's "Red Towel" logo, an iconic towel used by former coach E.A. Diddle.

He coached Western Kentucky University's basketball team from 1964 to 1971, taking over for Diddle who retired in 1964. Oldham finished 146-41 with a 78% winning percentage, leading them to four NCAA tournaments and an NIT berth while establishing the Hilltopper's place atop the Ohio Valley Conference standings.

He led the Hilltoppers to the 1971 NCAA Tournament where they went to the Final Four and finished third overall (though the NCAA made them forfeit their standing).

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Ignacio Ramos (basketball)

Ignacio "Ning" Ramos is a former Filipino basketball player and head coach. He was part of the Philippine national basketball team that captured the gold medal at the 1951 Asian Games in New Delhi, India. Ramos coached the San Miguel Corporation team in the Manila Industrial and Commercial Athletic Association, and later, in the Philippine Basketball Association when the team moved there. Ramos was also the head coach of the national basketball team that participated in the 1972 Summer Olympics.

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Michael Wilson (basketball)

Michael Wilson is a former player of the Harlem Globetrotters and the University of Memphis, also known as 'Wild Thing'.

Wilson holds the world record for the highest dunk. On April 1, 2000, Wilson dunked a basketball on a goal set at 3.65m (12 feet) from the floor. However, Wilt Chamberlain was also known to have performed the feat on an experimental basket set up by Phog Allen at the University of Kansas in the 1950s . Chamberlain, unlike Wilson, did not have the advantage of being given an alley oop.

Michael Wilson played high school basketball at Melrose High School in Memphis, Tennessee. The Texarkana Gazette reported that he had a 52-inch vertical leap.

Wilson is the former Director of Headfirst Basketball.

He is now founder and CEO of World Record Basketball.

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Darryl Hill (basketball player)

Darry Hill is a former basketball player from Queens, New York who played at Cardozo High School in Bayside, Queens. He went on to play basketball at St. John's University in Jamaica, Queens. At St. John's he led the Big East in scoring for one season. He was known as "Showtime Hill" due to his flashy moves while also playing at the Rucker Park streetball tournament. He had a tryout with the New York Knicks, but never played professionally.

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William Cunningham (basketball)

For the former NBA player and coach with a similar name, see Billy Cunningham.

William "Will" Cunningham (born March 25, 1974, in Augusta, Georgia) is an American professional basketball player, formerly in the NBA.

A 6'11" center from Temple University, Cunningham played in 16 games for four different NBA teams from 1998 to 1999, averaging 0.6 points and 1.7 rebounds per game. He has played for the Utah Jazz (1998), Philadelphia 76ers (1998), Toronto Raptors (1999) and New Jersey Nets (1999). He was not drafted by an NBA team but was taken in the 1996 USBL Draft. He has also played professionally in Uruguay for Atletico Arenas in 2006.

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Honored North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball players

Forty-three former North Carolina men's basketball players are honored in the Dean E. Smith Center with banners representing their numbers hung from the rafters. Of the 43 honored jerseys, seven are retired and cannot be worn by a future North Carolina basketball player.

To be honored, a player must be named MVP of a National Championship-winning team, or to first- or second-team All-America, or be a member of a gold medal-winning Olympic team..

To have a jersey retired, a player must win one of the following six national player of the year awards: Associated Press, National Association of Basketball Coaches, Sporting News, John R. Wooden Award, Oscar Robertson Trophy, and Naismith College Player of the Year.

Seven players (including Jack Cobb, whose jersey did not have a number) have had their jerseys retired. Since Tyler Hansbrough won all six of the required national player of the year awards in the 2007-08 season, his number 50 will become the eighth jersey to be retired after his senior season in 2008-09.

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List of Women's National Basketball Association players

This is a list of Women's National Basketball Association players, active and former. Current players are in bold.

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Chris Thomas (basketball)

Chris Thomas (born 1982 in Indianapolis, Indiana) is a former basketball player at Pike High School and the University of Notre Dame. Thomas lead the Pike High School Red Devils to victory at the Indiana State High School competition in 2001. He was Indiana's "Mr. Basketball" in 2001. He ranks eighth on the Notre Dame's all-time scoring list with 1,783 points. He is also the school's all-time leader in assists, having dished out 638 in his career. His career scoring average of 18.0 ppg ranks 11th on the school's all-time list. He also ranks second all-time in school history with 302 3-Point Field Goals, third in steals with 184, and 11th in 3 Point Field Goal Percentage. He was the 2002 Big East Conference Rookie of the Year winner, as well as a 2 time Big East all-conference selection. He recorded the only triple-double in school history, against University of New Hampshire, when he scored 24 points, had 11 assists, and 11 steals in his first game. He was named to the First Team All Notre Dame team as the point guard. This team was put together to celebrate 100 years of Notre Dame basketball and Thomas was the first team point guard. Thomas is currently playing for CB Murcia in Spain's top professional basketball league the ACB.

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Milton Barnes (basketball)

Milton Barnes is the associate head men’s basketball coach at SMU and American former basketball player for Albion College in Michigan in the NCAA, where he scored 1,137 points from 1975-79. He was an assistant coach at the University of Minnesota in the 1980s under Clem Haskins. He later became head coach of Albion, Michigan High School, where he compiled a 65-11 record from 1988 to 1991, including a 26-1 record and a Class B state championship game appearance in his final season. Also, he is the former head coach of Eastern Michigan University and of the world famous Harlem Globetrotters. He also coached the NBDL's Greenville Groove to a league championship. Barnes and his wife Lyn have three children; sons Andre and Milton Jr. (8) and a daughter Alexis (10). His son Andre is a student-athlete in track and field at Michigan.

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