Basketball and the NBA

What this quiz asks

• Who invented the game of basketball in 1891?
• A male deer like this one gives its name to which NBA team?
• How many players from each team are allowed on a basketball court at the same time?
• Is an NBA game made up of four quarters of 12 minutes each?
• How many NBA championships did Michael Jordan win with the Chicago Bulls?
• At which Olympic Games did the USA's famous "Dream Team" of NBA stars play?
• Which player scored 100 points in a single NBA game in 1962?
• The Harlem Globetrotters were founded in Chicago, not in Harlem.
• Select ALL of these NBA franchises that once played in a different city.
• Order these players by the year of their NBA debut, earliest first.
• Magic Johnson beat which future NBA rival in the 1979 US college championship game?
• How many NBA titles did Bill Russell win as a player with the Boston Celtics?
• How high above the floor is a regulation basketball rim, in centimetres?
• German star Dirk Nowitzki led which team to the 2011 NBA title?
• Which team won the 2019 NBA Finals, the first title for a franchise based outside the USA?
• The slam dunk was banned in US college basketball from 1967 to 1976.
• Which rival league, famous for its red, white and blue ball, used the three-point shot before the NBA adopted it in 1979?
• Select ALL of these players who were the first overall pick in their NBA Draft.
• The very first game of the league that became the NBA was played in 1946 in which city?
• In 1950, Earl Lloyd became the first African American to do what in the NBA?