Don Dee

{{Short description|American basketball player (1943–2014)}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}}

{{Infobox basketball biography

| name = Don Dee

| image = Don_Dee_SLU.jpg

| image_size =

| caption = Dee from the 1964 Archive

| height_ft = 6

| height_in = 8

| weight_lb = 210

| birth_date = {{birth date|1943|8|9}}

| birth_place = Boonville, Missouri, U.S.

| death_date = {{death date and age|2014|11|26|1943|8|9}}

| death_place = North Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.

| high_school = Bishop Lillis (Kansas City, Missouri)

| college =

• Saint Louis (1962–1964)
• St. Mary of the Plains (1966–1968)

| draft_year = 1968

| draft_round = 3

| draft_pick = 25

| draft_team = Detroit Pistons

| career_start =

| career_end =

| career_number = 40

| career_position = Power forward

| years1 = 1968–1969

| team1 = Indiana Pacers

| highlights =

| medaltemplates =

{{MedalSport|Men's basketball}}

{{MedalCountry|the {{USA}}}}

{{MedalOlympics}}

{{MedalGold|1968 Mexico City | Team competition}}

}}

Donald Dee (August 9, 1943 – November 26, 2014) was an American basketball player. He played college basketball for Saint Louis and St. Mary of the Plains College. Dee played his sophomore year and the first two games of his junior year at Saint Louis before a serious injury during the second game he played in during his junior year at Saint Louis caused him to miss out on what would have been his final two years there, which caused him to later transfer to St. Mary of the Plains College for what would officially become his junior and senior years of college instead.https://www.thedraftreview.com/?option=com_content&view=article&id=5460

Dee participated in the 1968 Summer Olympics, where he won a gold medal with the United States national basketball team."[https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2199&dat=19680411&id=b4kyAAAAIBAJ&sjid=keYFAAAAIBAJ&pg=5604,4555814 Dee Goes From Dropout to Olympic Team]". Lawrence Journal-World. April 11, 1968. Retrieved on January 17, 2013. He then played professionally with the Indiana Pacers of the American Basketball Association, averaging 5.7 points per game during the 1968–69 ABA season.

Dee's son, Donnie Dee, played for the Indianapolis Colts in the NFL for two seasons. His grandson Johnny Dee is a professional basketball player.{{cite news |last1=Norcross |first1=Don |title=USD star on cusp of history |url=http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/sports/toreros/sdut-usd-basketball-dee-toreros-guard-2014dec27-story.html |accessdate=September 6, 2018 |work=San Diego Union-Tribune |date=December 27, 2014}}

Dee died on November 26, 2014, in North Kansas City, Missouri, at the age of 71.{{cite web | last = Kerkhoff | first = Blair | title = Don Dee, a 1968 basketball Olympian, dies at 71 | work = KansasCity.com | date = November 27, 2014 | url = http://www.kansascity.com/sports/article4179078.html | accessdate = December 1, 2014}}