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- ...that, subject to the resolution of litigation, Slovenian player Miha Zupan will become the first deaf player to compete in Europe's principal club competition, the Euroleague?
- ...that the Criollos de Caguas, having, in view of pecuniary concerns, elected not to contest the 2005 National Superior Basketball season, returned to the league in 2006 and, after winning by one point the final game of a best-of-three-game series over 2004 champion Leones de Ponce, overcame the Cangrejeros de Santurce and point guard Jose Juan Barea in a best-of-seven-game series to win the 2006 league title?
- ...that Congolese center Dikembe Mutombo, who over his National Basketball Association career tallied more blocked shots than any player save center Hakeem Olajuwon and who also ranks eleventh in league history in career defensive rebounds recorded, is, alongside center Ben Wallace, one of just two players to have won four Defensive Player of the Year Awards and the only one to have done so with three different teams—the Denver Nuggets in 1994-95, the Atlanta Hawks in 1996-97 and 1997-98, and the Philadelphia 76ers in 2000-01?
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- ...that, in view of his having won the 1975-76 and 1979-80 National Basketball Association Coach of the Year Awards, of his having led the Boston Celtics to the 1981 NBA championship and the Houston Rockets to the 1986 NBA Finals, and of his having coached five franchises over 25 seasons, Bill Fitch was named to the Top Ten Coaches in NBA History squad despite having achieved a regular season winning percentage of just .460?
- ...that Košarkaški Klub Bosna, a Sarajevo side who compete in the Premier League of Basketball of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Goodyear Adriatic League, are the only club ever to have won the national championships and national cups of the Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, and, in 1979, became the first Yugoslav side to win the Euroleague championship?
- ...that, after the North Dakota State University Bison, coached by Women's Basketball Hall of Famer Amy Ruley, appeared in six consecutive National Collegiate Athletic Association Women's Division II Basketball Championship finals between 1991 and 1996, winning four, including one over three-time champion Delta State University, the University of North Dakota Fighting Sioux captured three straight championships between 1997 and 1999?
- ...that of the five individual honors awarded during the National Basketball Association's All-Star Weekend—the Slam Dunk Contest title, the Rookie Challenge Most Valuable Player Award, the Skills Challenge championship, the Three-point Shootout title, and the All-Star Game Most Valuable Player Award—at least two have been won by one player in the same season just twice, by Chicago Bulls shooting guard Michael Jordan, the 1998 game most valuable player and Slam Dunk Contest titlist, and Golden State Warriors shooting guard Jason Richardson, the 2002 Slam Dunk Contest titlist and Rookie Challenge most valuable player?
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