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The NBA-backed Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) began in what year? 1997.

How many times did the Boston Celtics win the NBA championship between 1957 and 1969?
A: 11.
Q: How many NBA titles did Magic Johnson help the Lakers win as a player?
A: Five.

Q: What NBA hoopster is known as "The Worm"?
A: Dennis Rodman.

Q: What NBA coach got cosmic by penning the Zen book Sacred Hoops: Spiritual Lessons of a Hardwood Warrior?
A: Phil Jackson

Who invented the first basketball used in an official game?
AG Spaulding
What's an NBA player deemed to be if he's received the Maurice Podoloff Trophy?
The most valuable player.

Q: What 20th-century decade saw the NBA adopt the 24-second shot clock?
A: The 1950s
How was Lew Alcindor later known?
A: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
In what year was Larry Bird first named NBA's MVP?
A: 1984.

Who invented basketball?
James Naismith is known to be the man who invented the game basketball
Basketball was originally played with what type of ball?
Soccer ball and two peach baskets with the bottoms cut out.

Who was the NBA Coach of the Year trophy named after?
A: Red Auerbach.

Q: What NBA team retired jersey numbers 3, 33, 32, and 35 in the 1990s?
A: The Boston Celtics
Q: What NBA team is known in China as "the Red Oxen"?
A: The Chicago Bulls.

Q: What seven-foot-one NBA center's first name translates as "little one"?
A: Shaquille O'Neal's.

Q: Who was the last Boston Celtics coach to lead the team to two straight NBA titles?
A: Bill Russell.

For men, the official ball is 29.5 inches in circumference

Q: What Celtics star of the 1980s did the Boston Globe say looked like Herman Munster?
A: Kevin McHale.
Q: What NBA team is named after a car part?
A: The Detroit Pistons.

If women are playing, the official basketball size is 28.5 inches
Q: What hoopster scored in double figures in 787 straight games, from December 4, 1977 to December 4, 1987?
A: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

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