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NBA Players who have won Regular Season MVP, Finals MVP and Championship in the Same Year
Category: NBA, Posted by admin | Comments Off on NBA Players who have won Regular Season MVP, Finals MVP and Championship in the Same YearThis is a list of those exclusive individuals who played extraordinarily well during a particular season and final series, led their team to win a championship and earned Most Valuable Player, Finals MVP and championship together in the same year.
List of Players who have won both the NCAA and NBA Championships
Category: NBA, Posted by admin | Comments Off on List of Players who have won both the NCAA and NBA ChampionshipsThere are very few players in basketball history who have won championships at both NCAA and NBA level. Here is a list of all those players who have been able to accomplish such a unique feat.
The Kings of Flop: Rating the Biggest Floppers in NBA History
Category: NBA, Posted by admin | Comments Off on The Kings of Flop: Rating the Biggest Floppers in NBA HistoryIn recent times, flopping has become a major issue of concern in NBA due to its extensive use. A great number of players are doing it regularly without realising the fact that this style of play can harm their reputation. The purpose of flopping is obviously to deceive a referee by exaggerating a contact like falling down on the floor intentionally even after the slightest touch with the opposing player and force the ref to call a foul but flopping is not limitated to just one trick. It has many aspects, methods and ploys. On the other hand, floppers also differ from each other in many respects. Some players do flopping frequently and some occasionaly. Some are just ordinary fakers while some are extremely skillful in this art. Here we have ranked the biggest floppers in NBA history, the players who are real floppers in any sense of the term.
NBA Sixth Man of the Year Award Winners
Category: NBA, Posted by admin | Comments Off on NBA Sixth Man of the Year Award WinnersSixth Man is a substitute or a reserve player who is not the part of the actual starting lineup; he comes off the bench in place of a starter. Oftenly, he is the most used stand-in player on a team. To honor the contributions of the substitutes, NBA issues Sixth Man of the Year award. This is an annual award given to the best bench player of the season.
NBA Coach of the Year Award Winners
Category: NBA, Posted by admin | Comments Off on NBA Coach of the Year Award WinnersNBA Coach of the Year Award is presented to a coach for his contributions in his team’s success. The winner is determined by a ballot of sportswriters’ panel from United States and Canada. The one who is selected unanimously gets the Red Auerbach Trophy, a trophy named after the Hall of Fame coach Red Auerbach.
Here is a list of all those coaches from 1963 to 2012 who have been honored with this reward.
List of NBA Three-Point Shootout Winners (1986-2012)
Category: NBA, Posted by admin | Comments Off on List of NBA Three-Point Shootout Winners (1986-2012)This is a list of all NBA Three-Point Shootout winners, from its inaugural edition in 1986 to 2012. Larry Bird was champion of the first contest, held in Dallas. Whereas, Kevin Love is the most recent winner of the contest.
Top 7 NBA Players with most 3 Point Field Goals
Category: NBA, Posted by admin | Comments Off on Top 7 NBA Players with most 3 Point Field GoalsThe following is a list of those NBA players who made most field goals from the three point range. They are undoubtedly the best three point shooters of all-time.
Top 7 Triple-Double Leaders in NBA History
Category: NBA, Posted by admin | Comments Off on Top 7 Triple-Double Leaders in NBA HistoryA triple- double is achieved when a player gets 10 or more score in three out of the five categories during a single game. These five categories are points, assists, rebounds, steals and blocked shots. Here are the all- time NBA leaders in triple doubles.
Top 7 Lowest Scoring Games in NBA History
Category: NBA, Posted by admin | Comments Off on Top 7 Lowest Scoring Games in NBA HistoryIn the pre shot clock era, the games were frustratingly slow paced and low scoring. Because of the fact that a team who got lead in the game, waste the whole remaining time in grabbing and holding the ball instead of attempting the field goals.
The early days of NBA, from 1946 to 1954, were infamous for the low scoring games. The lowest of them all was played on November 22, 1950, between the Fort Wayne Pistons and Minneapolis Lakers where Pistons defeated the Lakers by 19-18.
Shortest NBA Players of All Time
Category: NBA,Uncategorized, Posted by admin | Comments Off on Shortest NBA Players of All TimeIn basketball, less than 6 feet is considered a short height and generally a disadvantage as well. But it does’t mean that a short heighted player is always ignored and never selected by any team. In the history of NBA, so many short statured players made their way into the league and some of them played successfully over a long period of time. Following is the list of those players who were the shortest ever to play in NBA.