2006 in basketball
The following are the basketball events of the year 2006 throughout the world.
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Tournaments include international (FIBA), professional (club) and amateur and collegiate levels.
Championships
International
- 2006 FIBA World Championship:
- Gold medal: Spain
- Silver medal: Greece
- Bronze medal: USA
- MVP:
Pau Gasol, Spain - All-tournament team:
- Pau Gasol
Carmelo Anthony (USA)- Jorge Garbajosa (Spain)
- Argentina)
Theodoros Papaloukas (Greece)
- Gold medal:
- 2006 FIBA World Championship for Women
- Basketball at the 2006 Asian Games
- Men's tournament:
- Gold medal: China
- Silver medal: Qatar
- Bronze medal: Iran
- Gold medal:
- Women's tournament:
- Gold medal:
China - Silver medal:
Chinese Taipei - Bronze medal:
Japan
- Gold medal:
- Men's tournament:
Professional
Men
- playoffs:
- EuroLeague (Europe-wide):
- CSKA Moscow defeated Maccabi Tel Aviv 73-69 in the final
- Croatian League:
- French League:
- Nancy93-88 in the one-off final
German Bundesliga:
- RheinEnergie Köln defeated Alba Berlin3-1 in the best-of-five finals
- Greek League:
- Panathinaikos defeated Olympiakos 3-0 in the best-of-five finals
Iranian Super League, 2005–06 season:
- Saba Battery defeat Petrochimi 3–0 in the best-of-five final.
Israel Premier League:
- Maccabi Tel Aviv defeated Hapoel Jerusalem 96-66 in the one-off final (the first such final in Israel history)
Italian Serie A:
- Benetton Treviso defeated Climamio Bologna 3-1 in the best-of-five finals
Lithuanian LKL:
- Lietuvos Rytas defeated Žalgiris4-0 in the best-of-seven finals
Philippine Basketball Association 2005–06 season:
- Purefoods Chunkee Giants 4-2 in the Fiesta Conference Finals. Finals MVP: Lordy Tugade
- Red Bull Barako 4-2 in the Philippine Cup Finals. Finals MVP: Marc Pingris
Polish League:
- Anwil Włocławek4-1 in the best-of-seven finals
- Russian Super League:
- CSKA Moscow over Khimki 3-0 in the best-of-five finals
- Serbia and Montenegro Super League:
- Spanish ACB:
- TAU Cerámica3-0 in the best-of-five finals
- Turkish Basketball League:
- Efes Pilsen4-0 in the best-of-seven finals. Only three matches were actually played; under Turkish rules, Ülker was granted a 1-0 lead by virtue of its regular-season sweep of Efes.
British Basketball League:
- Scottish Rocks83-68 in the one-off final
- Adriatic League:
Women
College
- Men
- NCAA
- Division I: Florida 73, UCLA 57
- National Invitation Tournament: South Carolina 76, Michigan 64
- Division II: Winona State 73, Virginia Union 61
- Virginia Wesleyan 59, Wittenberg56
- NAIA
- NAIA Division I: Texas Wesleyan 67, Oklahoma City 65
- NAIA Division II: College of the Ozarks (Mo.) 74, Huntington (Ind.) 56
- NJCAA
- Arkansas-Ft. Smith 68, Tallahassee CC(FL) 59
- Division II: Cecil CC 9 (MD) 64, Kirkwood CC (IA) 63
- Division III: North Lake College (TX) 78, Gloucester County College (N.J.) 65
- Men's: University of Santo Tomas over Ateneo de Manila University, 2 games to 1
- , 2 games to 1
- Women
- NCAA
- Division I: Maryland 78, Duke 75 OT
- WNIT: Kansas State 77, Marquette 65
- Division II: Grand Valley State 58, American International 52
- Division III Hope 69, Southern Maine 56
- NAIA
- Lubbock Christian(TX) 62
- NAIA Division II Hastings (Neb.) 58, College of the Ozarks(Mo.) 39
- NJCAA[1]
- Division I: Monroe CC (Rochester, New York) 76, Odessa College (TX) 64
- Division II: Illinois Central College 71, Kirkwood CC (IA) 54
- Division III: Monroe College (Bronx, New York) 100, Mohawk Valley CC (NY) 70
- Far Eastern University, 2 games to 1
Prep
- Indianapolis, Indiana
- Queens, New York
- Philippine Christian University Union High School, 2 games to 0
- Far Eastern University-Nicanor Reyes Educational Foundation, 2 games to 1
Awards and honors
Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame
- Class of 2006:[2]
Women's Basketball Hall of Fame
- Class of 2006[3]
- Geno Auriemma
- Maria Paula Gonçalves da Silva
- Clarissa Davis-Wrightsil
- Janice Lawrence Braxton
- Katrina McClain Johnson
- Barbara Stevens
Professional
- Men
- Women
- WNBA Most Valuable Player Award: Lisa Leslie, Los Angeles Sparks
- WNBA Defensive Player of the Year Award: Tamika Catchings, Indiana Fever
- WNBA Rookie of the Year Award: Seimone Augustus, Minnesota Lynx
- Erin Buescher, Sacramento Monarchs
- Kim Perrot Sportsmanship Award: Dawn Staley, Houston Comets
- WNBA Coach of the Year Award: Mike Thibault, Connecticut Sun
- WNBA Finals Most Valuable Player Award: Deanna Nolan, Detroit Shock
Collegiate
- Combined
- Men
- John R. Wooden Award: J. J. Redick, Duke
- Naismith College Coach of the Year: Jay Wright, Villanova
- Illinois
- Associated Press College Basketball Player of the Year: J. J. Redick, Duke
- NCAA basketball tournament Most Outstanding Player: Corey Brewer, Florida
- USBWA National Freshman of the Year: Tyler Hansbrough, North Carolina
- Roy Williams (coach), North Carolina
- Naismith Outstanding Contribution to Basketball: Jerry Colangelo
- Women
- John R. Wooden Award: Seimone Augustus, LSU
- Naismith College Player of the Year: Seimone Augustus, LSU
- Naismith College Coach of the Year: Sylvia Hatchell, North Carolina
- Wade Trophy: Seimone Augustus, LSU
- Frances Pomeroy Naismith Award: Megan Duffy, Notre Dame
- Associated Press Women's College Basketball Player of the Year: Seimone Augustus, LSU
- NCAA basketball tournament Most Outstanding Player: Laura Harper, Maryland
- Basketball Academic All-America Team: Lindsay Shearer, Kent State
- Carol Eckman Award: Gail Goestenkors, Duke
- USBWA National Freshman of the Year: Courtney Paris, Oklahoma
- Associated Press College Basketball Coach of the Year: Sylvia Hatchell, North Carolina
- List of Senior CLASS Award women's basketball winners: Seimone Augustus, LSU
- Nancy Lieberman Award: Ivory Latta, North Carolina
- Naismith Outstanding Contribution to Basketball: Val Ackerman
Events
- December 13- after a few months in use and complaints from players, the NBA announces it will disuse the new synthetic ball in favor of the classic leather one.
- December 16- a brawl erupted at the Madison Square Garden game between the New York Knicks and the Denver Nuggets.
Movies
Deaths
- February 11 — Harry Vines, American wheelchair basketball coach (born 1938)
- March 17 — Hall of Fame coach of the DePaul Universitymen's team (born 1913)
- April 6 — Maggie Dixon, women's coach at Army (born 1977)
- April 6 — Price Brookfield, American NBA player (born 1920)
- April 19 — Gene Rosenthal, American NBL player (Pittsburgh Pirates) (born 1914)
- May 6 — Indianapolis Kautskysplayer (born 1918)
- May 9 — Grady Wallace, All-American and national scoring champion at South Carolina
- May 18 — Irving Meretsky, Canadian Olympic silver medalist (1936) (born 1912)
- July 3 — Dick Dickey, NBA player and All-American at NC State (born 1926)
- July 4 — Bobby Joe Mason, Harlem Globetrotters player and college All-American at Bradley (born 1936)
- July 21 — Alexander Petrenko, Russian player (BC Khimki) (born 1976)
- August 18 — Dick Hickox, American college All-American (Miami Hurricanes) (born 1938)
- September 7 — Ozell Jones, American NBA player (San Antonio Spurs, Los Angeles Clippers) (born 1960)
- October 5 — Cleveland Buckner, American NBA player (New York Knicks) (born 1938)
- October 5 — Cincinnati Royals) and college coach (West Virginia, Purdue) (born 1928)
- October 25 — Johnny Hoekstra, American NBL player (Kankakee Gallagher Trojans) (born 1917)
- October 28 — Arnold "Red" Auerbach, Hall of Fame coach and president of the Boston Celtics (born 1917)
- November 9 — Mikhail Semyonov, Russian (Soviet) Olympic Silver medalist (1956, 1960) (born 1933)
- November 29 — Gary Alcorn, American NBA player (Detroit Pistons, Los Angeles Lakers) (born 1936)
- December 12 — Philadelphia Warriorswho twice led the NBA in scoring (born 1928)
- December 13 — Lamar Hunt, original ownership partner of the Chicago Bulls (born 1932)
- December 21 — Warren Hair, American NBL player (Kankakee Gallagher Trojans) (born 1918)
- December 29 — Chicago Packers) (born 1935)
See also
References
- ^ "NJCAA WOMEN'S BASKETBALL RECORD BOOK" (PDF). NJCAA. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-10-14. Retrieved 10 Oct 2014.
- ^ "Hall of Famers". Basketball Hall of Fame. Retrieved 12 Oct 2014.
- ^ "Women's Basketball Hall of Fame Class of 2006". Women's Basketball Hall of Fame. Archived from the original on 17 October 2014. Retrieved 12 October 2014.
External links
Media related to 2006 in basketball at Wikimedia Commons