Basketball Flashcards
What basketball superstar and Hall of Famer was the only player to win both the NBA and ABA Most Valuable Player Awards, accomplishing the latter three times during the league’s last three years of existence while playing for the New York Nets?
Julius Erving
The NBA’s Toronto Raptors frequently use the phrase “We The North” as a rallying cry. However, there are actually two current NBA teams representing cities located at more northerly latitudes than Toronto. What are they?
Minnesota Timberwolves, Portland Trailblazers
For three years from 1960-62, the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament Final Four featured the same two teams representing what are today the two largest universities (by enrollment) in one state. Both schools are located in cities named (in one case, somewhat indirectly) after individuals born in modern-day Italy. What state are both these teams from?
Ohio
What is the last name of the only brother-and-sister duo to be enshrined in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame?
Miller (Reggie, Cheryl)
Called the “Wizard of Westwood,” this UCLA coach is in the Basketball Hall of Fame as both a coach and a player.
John Wooden
In 2010, this NBA Hall of Famer sold off his interest in 105 Starbucks franchises.
Magic Johnson
In 1974, the Notre Dame basketball team beat this team’s 88-game winning streak.
UCLA
What NBA coach, in his 22nd season with his team, is currently the longest-tenured coach in any of the four major North American sports organizations?
Gregg Popovich coached his first Spurs game in December 1996, before current Rookie of the Year hopefuls like Jayson Tatum, Lauri Markkanen, and Lonzo Ball were even born.
Devin Booker, TJ Warren, and Josh Jackson were leading scorers for what NBA team during the 2017-2018 season?
Phoenix Suns
The Simon Property Group is America’s largest operator of shopping malls. Which NBA team is owned by co-founder Herbert Simon? Victor Oladipo plays for this Eastern Conference team, which pushed Cleveland to seven games in the first round of the 2018 playoffs.
Indiana Pacers
Though (as of 2018) he is rumored to have a campaign for president brewing, what former CEO might find a dearth of local support in a run for office due to his sale of the Seattle Supersonics to Clay Bennett, who shortly thereafter moved the team to Oklahoma City?
Howard Schultz
Though the region currently has no NBA team, upstate New York used to be a hotbed for professional basketball. Name any one of the current NBA teams that can trace their franchise lineage back to their earliest iterations as the Syracuse Nationals, Rochester Seagrams and Buffalo Braves.
Philadelphia 76ers, Sacramento Kings, Los Angeles Clippers
The WNBA’s Orlando Miracle became the first franchise in league history to be owned by a party other than an NBA owner when they were purchased by the Mohegan Indian Tribe. The tribe then moved the team to their casino, located near a women’s basketball mecca, where they took on what name?
Connecticut Sun
LeBron James is the NBA’s #2 all-time career scorer among active players, with 31,038 points. What player is just ahead of him in first, and sixth all-time among all players, with 31,187? The player in question is signed for the 2018-19 season with his current (and only) team, which will set an NBA record for most seasons with the same team.
Dirk Nowitzki (as of September 11th, 2018)
Because of Michael Jordan’s baseball hiatus, the top NBA scorer of the 1990s was by a wide margin what player, who played the whole decade for the same team?
Karl Malone
