The following are the basketball events of the year 1980 throughout the world.
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Continental championships
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- February 5 — Skinny Johnson, American Hall of Fame college (Kansas) and AAU player (born 1911)
- February 29 — Doug Kistler, American NBA player (born 1938)
- April 22 — Decio Scuri, Italian Olympic coach and FIBA executive (born March 18)
- May 5 — Stewart Way, American NCAA coach (born 1911)
- May 23 — Terry Furlow, American NBA player (born 1954)
- June 12 — Johnny Horan, American NBA and EPBL player (born 1916)
- August 19 — Sadi Gülçelik, Turkish club and Olympic player (born 1930)
- October 4 — Sihugo Green, American NBA player (born 1933)
- October 27 — Art Hillhouse, American NBA player (born 1916)
- November 14 — Johnny Horan, American NBA player (born 1932)
- November 25 — Joe Cipriano, American college coach (Idaho, Nebraska) (born 1931)
- November 27 — Ferenc Hepp, Hungarian FIBA executive (born 1909)
- November 30 — Mieko Fukui, Japanese Olympic player (born 1956)
- December 5 — Eddie Hickey, Hall of Fame American college coach (Creighton, Saint Louis, Marquette) (born 1902)
- December 19 — Tarzan Cooper, American Hall of Fame player (New York Renaissance) (born 1907)