Olympics
These are the four teams in Group A of the 2024 Paris Olympics, also known as "the group of death".
Who are: Spain, Greece, Canada, and Australia?
The first (announced) signing of the 2024 NBA offseason
Who is Luke Kornet?
The only player to receive a FMVP vote besides Kawhi Leonard in the 2019 NBA Finals.
Who is Fred VanVleet?
The top 5 in MVP voting from the 2023-24 NBA season (in order).
Who are Jokic, SGA, Luka, Giannis, and Brunson?
This team has had the most top 10 picks since 2010.
Who are the Timberwolves? (6)
These are the 3 teams in the 12 team pool in the 2024 Olympics with only one active NBA player.
Who are: Brazil (Gui Santos), Greece (Giannis), and Puerto Rico (Jose Alvarado)?
Prior to Paul George signing with the 76ers, this player signed the largest contract in NBA history for a player switching teams.
Who is Kevin Durant to the Brooklyn Nets (2019)?
The only player to win FMVP that is not inducted into the HOF. (Does not include active players or retired players not yet eligible for the HOF)
Who is Cedric Maxwell?
Steph Curry is the only unanimous winner of the NBA's MVP award. These two players are the only ones to ever finish just one vote shy of that honor.
Who are Shaquille O'Neal (1999-00) and LeBron James (2012-13)?
This player is the last #1 overall pick to play multiple seasons in college.
Who is Blake Griffin? (2009)
The only NBA team with four Olympians in the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Who are the Timberwolves?
The Philadelphia 76ers handed out nearly 2x as much money in the 2024 offseason as this team, who spent the second most by giving out roughly $255M in contracts to five players.
Who are the Indiana Pacers?
Knicks 3rd, OKC 4th, Raptors 5th
These are the only four players in NBA history with 10+ NBA Finals appearances.
Who are: Bill Russell (12), Sam Jones (11), Kareem Abdul-Jabbar(10), and LeBron James (10)?
The number of Guards that have won Defensive Player of the Year.
What is 6 players? (Sidney Moncrief, Alvin Robertson, Michael Cooper, Michael Jordan, Gary Payton, Marcus Smart)
The 2024 NBA Draft saw 4 Frenchmen drafted in the first round. This year was the last time 4 international players were drafted in the first round.
What is the 2020 Draft? (Killian Hayes, Deni Avdija, Aleksej Pokusevski, Leandro Bolmaro)
Kevin Durant recently became USA's Olympic all-time leading scorer, passing this player.
Who is Lisa Leslie?
Jayson Tatum recently signed a 5 year, $314M contract extension. How many other contracts in NBA history have surpassed the $250M mark in total value?
What are 3 contracts? (Brad Beal - $251M, Nikola Jokic - $276M, Jaylen Brown - $285M)
Hali and Ant are T5 at $244M
There are 14 people in NBA history to win a championship both as a player and as a coach. Name at least two of them.
Bonus points for every two additional correct guesses.
Who are: Pat Riley, Bill Russell, Tom Heinsohn, Bill Sharman, Phil Jackson, Rick Carlisle, Steve Kerr, Ty Lue, KC Jones, Billy Cunningham, Red Holzman, Larry Costello, George Senesky, and Buddy Jeannette?
Eight teams have never had a regular season MVP. We will go back and forth listing each team until one of you stumbles.
Raptors
Grizzlies
Nets
Pistons
Pacers
Pelicans
Magic
Hornets
Since 1990, these are the only two players to win a National Championship and be picked #1 overall in the NBA draft.
Who are Anthony Davis (2012) and Larry Johnson (1991)?
The last time Team USA did not win Gold at the Olympics in basketball was in 2004 when they lost to the eventual Gold medalists Argentina. These two teams won Silver and Bronze.
Silver - Italy
Bronze - United States
Since implementing a salary cap in 1984, the NBA has only seen that cap go down year over year two times. Name either one of those times (both for extra points).
What are the 2002 ($42.5M -> 40.5M) and 2009 ($58.6M -> $57.7M) seasons?
2019 through 2024 is the first time in NBA history where there has been a 6 year run of 6 different champions. From 1977 to 1981, there were 5 different NBA champions. Name those 5 teams.
Hint: the streak was ended when the Lakers won the 1982 Finals.
Who are the Trailblazers, Bullets, SuperSonics, Lakers, and Celtics?
This individual player award is the only official NBA award to not (yet) be named after a former NBA player/contributor.
What is the Hustle Award?
The only team to ever jump up 10 spots in the lottery to claim the #1 overall pick.
Hint: this team traded the pick on draft night.
Who are the 1993 Orlando Magic?