16 prominent basketball people who passed away this year

An NCAA scoring champion, a coach in the "Greatest Game Ever Played," the original Sonics center, the inventor of the Dunk Contest, the Hall of Famer affectionately known as "Hondo," and the first player of color in NBA history are amongst the basketball people we lost in 2019.

Loyal foot soldiers

With Nick Collison getting his Thunder jersey retired in March, we take a look at some role players who took the Bill Russell, Kobe Bryant, and Tim Duncan route, spending their entire careers with a single franchise.