Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball coach. "Representing the United States men's national basketball team unless otherwise noted." <nowiki>*</nowiki>Valentine was selected to the US team, but the USA boycotted the 1980 summer Olympics. The Jayhawks have multiple connections to the NBA. Below is a list of former players and coaches. People that are currently coaches or in management will show their current job, as well as how they are associated with Kansas basketball. In 2008, five Jayhawks were drafted: Darrell Arthur, Mario Chalmers, Darnell Jackson, Sasha Kaun and Brandon Rush. This tied the record for most players selected in the draft in one year from one
East Germany national basketball team the SED banned its basketball players from traveling to non-socialist countries and immensely limited the sponsorship and promotion of talents. Soon, this meant the end of East German international basketball success, which ceded completely after 1973. East Germany national basketball team East Germany's national basketball team represented the German Democratic Republic between 1955 and 1973. Its biggest success was at the EuroBasket 1963 in Wrocław when it finished 6th out of 16. After the Second World War, only one German national basketball team existed. At the EuroBasket 1953, a unified German team competed with four East German players and finished