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NBA Trivia Quiz: Test Your Knowledge of the National Basketball Association

This quiz challenges your knowledge of the NBA, covering topics from teams, players, and significant historical moments in the league. Test your understanding of basketball and see how well you know the National Basketball Association!

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1 What network showed the 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 starring 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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