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1 What network showed National Basketball Association?

2 In 2004, two years after the Hornets relocation to New Orleans, the NBA returned to North Carolina as the ________ were formed.

3 David Andersen, ________ - Entered the NBA in 2009 after staring in Europe.

4 Manu Ginóbili, ________ – 2004 Olympic Tournament MVP and 2008 Sixth Man Award winner, 50 Greatest Euroleague Contributors (drafted in 1999, entered the NBA in 2002)

5 Sudanese-born Englishman ________ (2007 winner of the NBA Sportsmanship Award)

6 For example, in 2006, the ________ won 44 games and captured the Northwest Division and the #3 seed.

7 ________

8 Which of the following teams did National Basketball Association play for?

9 Which team was the champion of National Basketball Association?

10 ________, a list that is exclusively for players who are not from the United States

💡 Interesting Facts

  • former basketball player Jim Krebs wrote a humorous article for Sports Illustrated about surviving a plane crash during his third season in the NBA?
  • former Los Angeles Clippers coach Larry Brown is the only one of the 22 head coaches in franchise history with a winning NBA regular season record?
  • four former head coaches of the NBA franchise currently known as the Washington Wizards are members of the Basketball Hall of Fame as players?
  • even though Arvid Kramer had not played in the National Basketball Association (NBA) since the 1979–80 season, he was selected first in the 1988 NBA Expansion Draft?
  • during the Toronto Raptors 2006-07 season (team pictured), the National Basketball Association team won their first division title in franchise history?
  • Toney Douglas and his brother Harry are the sixth pair of brothers to play in the National Basketball Association (NBA) and National Football League (NFL), respectively?
  • during the 100 point game, Philadelphia Warriors player Wilt Chamberlain became the only player in history to score at least 100 points in a National Basketball Association match?
  • in June 1994 the NBA blocked the sale of the Minnesota Timberwolves to a group seeking to move the franchise to New Orleans, thus keeping the Timberwolves in Minneapolis?
  • the 1995–96 Chicago Bulls are the only National Basketball Association team to win at least 70 games in a single season?
  • the 2010–11 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team features an incoming class with the sons of two former National Basketball Association players, one of whom is the younger brother of a current one?
  • the only season that Eldridge Recasner ranked in the top ten in the NBA for three point shot field goal percentage was not his best season?
  • three of the five highest NBA career point totals by Ivy League players were by Princeton Tigers men's basketball players?
  • the 1998–99 NBA lockout forced the cancellation of 464 regular-season National Basketball Association games?
  • the Phoenix Suns were featured in all of the National Basketball Association's outdoor games?
  • the Los Angeles Lakers (pictured, in gold and white jerseys) and San Antonio Spurs (black jerseys) had an intense rivalry, during which the two teams won a total of six NBA championships in seven seasons?
  • the National Basketball Association (NBA) public relations director Haskell Cohen originated the idea for the first NBA All-Star Game?
  • Nathaniel "Sweetwater" Clifton was the first African American to sign a contract to play in the National Basketball Association?
  • Morlon Wiley was part of the NBA's only trade on the day of the trading deadline in 1995, being traded for Scott Brooks?
  • Hakeem Olajuwon and Sam Bowie were selected ahead of Michael Jordan in the 1984 National Basketball Association Draft?
  • Larry Brown is the only National Basketball Association (NBA) head coach who has coached nine different NBA teams?
  • Los Angeles Lakers point guard Nick Van Exel was fined $25,000 and suspended seven games by the National Basketball Association (NBA) for shoving referee Ron Garretson into the scorer's table?
  • Darryl Dawkins and Bill Willoughby were the first high school basketball players to directly enter the National Basketball Association after they were drafted in 1975?
  • Bobby Leonard, Jack McKinney, Larry Brown and Rick Carlisle have each coached the Indiana Pacers for 328 regular season games in the NBA?
  • Milwaukee Hawks player Don Boven fouled out of six consecutive NBA games in 1952—a record that still stands?
  • basketball player Bill Spivey sued the National Basketball Association and its commissioner in 1960, claiming that the league blacklisted him?
  • NBA point guard John Bagley was the first Boston College Eagle to earn Big East Men's Basketball Player of the Year honors?
  • Portland Trail Blazers guard Brandon Roy won the 2007 Rookie of the Year Award by a near-unanimous vote despite missing almost a third of his first season in the NBA due to injuries?
  • Darrell Floyd's day job paid more than the NBA basketball team the Saint Louis Hawks were offering?
  • Juwan Howard was the first student–athlete to graduate on time along with his class after declaring early for the NBA Draft and joining the National Basketball Association?
  • four Portland Trail Blazers head coaches have spent their entire National Basketball Association coaching careers with the Trail Blazers?
  • Chris Harris was the first basketballer from England to play in the NBA?
  • 2006 high school boys basketball All-Americans included 24 McDonald's All-American Game selectees of whom about 22 are expected to play in the National Basketball Association?
  • Spencer Haywood was included in the 1971 NBA Draft even though he already played in the NBA before the draft?
  • Wilt Chamberlain won the National Basketball Association rebounding title a record eleven times in his career?
  • Ann Meyers signed with the New Jersey Gems in 1979, with her US$50,000 salary matching what she had been paid by the Indiana Pacers in her bid to become the first woman to play in the NBA?
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