I had maintained this list over on Facebook, but with Facebook shutting down its blogging services, I might as well transition this to this forum. Over the past year or so I've been keeping track of the players in each of the four major team sports (baseball, basketball, football, hockey) that made it to the top league in their respective sport (MLB, NBA, NFL, NHL) sometime in my lifetime (I was born January 25, 1985) that has since passed away. The MLB, NFL and NHL lists were easy since the Sports References site for those sports list every dead player by year. The Basketball Reference page does not. I had to click every player on every roster for every team since 1985. In the end I found this list of 110 players that have since passed away. They are listed in reverse chronological order of their final games. If two players played their last game on the same day, then the player that died later is listed earlier.
*indicates the player is in the Hall of Fame
03/10/2020 - Caleb Swanigan (1997-2020)
12/27/2017 - Adreian Payne (1991-2022)
04/16/2016 - Kobe Bryant* (1978-2020)03/08/2016 - Rasual Butler (1979-2018)
02/23/2016 - Bryce Dejean-Jones (1992-2016)
04/17/2013 - Fab Melo (1990-2017)
02/13/2013 - Tyler Honeycutt (1990-2018)
02/22/2012 - Andre Emmett (1982-2019)
04/15/2009 - Lorenzen Wright (1975-2010)
05/12/2007 - Cliff Robinson (1966-2020)
04/18/2007 - Justin Reed (1982-2017)
12/13/2006 - Eddie Griffin (1982-2007)
04/19/2006 - Anthony Grundy (1979-2019)
02/22/2006 - Jackson Vroman (1981-2015)
04/20/2005 - Robert Traylor (1977-2011)
04/20/2005 - Jason Collier (1977-2005)
04/09/2004 - Robert Archibald (1980-2020)
04/08/2004 - Sean Rooks (1969-2016)
01/03/2004 - Alton Ford (1981-2018)
05/01/2003 - Anthony Mason (1966-2015)
12/30/2002 - Nate Huffman (1975-2015)
04/17/2001 - Jerome Kersey (1962-2015)
03/14/2001 - Lari Ketner (1977-2014)
05/16/2000 - Armen Gilliam (1964-2011)
05/02/2000 - Malik Sealy (1970-2000)
03/30/2000 - Devin Gray (1972-2013)
01/10/2000 - Bobby Phills (1969-2000)
05/16/1999 - Bison Dele (1969-2002)
05/04/1999 - Charles Shackleford (1966-2017)
05/03/1999 - Hot Rod Williams (1962-2015)
04/25/1999 - Dwayne Schintzius (1968-2012)
02/07/1999 - Peter Aluma (1973-2020)
04/17/1998 - Jack Haley (1964-2015)
04/02/1998 - Brooks Thompson (1970-2016)
01/07/1998 - Bob McCann (1964-2011)
12/30/1997 - Yinka Dare (1972-2004)
11/21/1997 - Clifford Rozier (1972-2018)
05/01/1997 - Wayman Tisdale (1964-2009)
12/22/1996 - Kevin Duckworth (1964-2008)
02/28/1996 - Howard Nathan (1972-2019)
04/23/1995 - Roy Tarpley (1964-2015)
04/07/1995 - Alphonso Ford (1971-2004)
12/27/1994 - Moses Malone* (1955-2015)
11/22/1994 - Manute Bol (1962-2010)
04/24/1994 - Andre Spencer (1964-2020)
04/24/1994 - Eric Anderson (1970-2018)
04/24/1994 - Orlando Woolridge (1959-2012)
04/02/1994 - Alec Kessler (1967-2007)
02/06/1994 - Roy Marble (1966-2015)
02/02/1994 - Ben Coleman (1961-2019)
05/09/1993 - Dražen Petrović* (1964-1993)
03/10/1993 - Alan Ogg (1967-2009)
03/10/1993 - Barry Stevens (1963-2007)
12/22/1990 - Pat Cummings (1956-2012)
11/08/1990 - Mark McNamara (1959-2020)
05/19/1990 - Caldwell Jones (1950-2014)
05/17/1990 - Mike Mitchell (1956-2011)
05/06/1990 - Dennis Johnson* (1954-2007)
04/22/1990 - Chris Welp (1964-2015)
04/20/1990 - Steve Harris (1963-2016)
04/18/1990 - Dyron Nix (1967-2013)
04/15/1990 - Lewis Lloyd (1959-2019)
12/16/1989 - Jay Taylor (1967-1998)
04/23/1989 - Ricky Berry (1964-1989)
04/22/1989 - Pearl Washington (1964-2016)
04/22/1989 - Jerome Whitehead (1956-2012)
04/04/1989 - Clinton Wheeler (1959-2019)
02/15/1989 - Greg Ballard (1955-2016)
02/03/1989 - Darryl Dawkins (1957-2015)
05/15/1988 - Michael Brooks (1958-2016)
05/06/1988 - Maurice Lucas (1952-2010)
04/30/1987 - Fernando Martin (1962-1989)
04/18/1987 - Ray Williams (1954-2013)
04/18/1987 - Nick Vanos (1963-1987)
04/17/1987 - Dan Roundfield (1953-2012)
03/29/1987 - Mike Brittain (1963-1995)
03/14/1987 - Marvin Webster (1952-2009)
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