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[edit] July 4 to July 23, 2006
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Forward Dirk Nowitzki, who plays professionally with the Dallas Mavericks of the National Basketball Association, has represented his homeland in international play on the Germany national basketball team, flag pictured, since 1997, winning the most valuable player award at the 2002 FIBA Basketball World Championship, despite having played on the bronze medal-winning team, and the same award for his play during the 2005 European Basketball Championship, contested in four cities across Serbia and Montenegro, when he led all players by averaging 26.1 points per game and playing in which he is pictured.
Germany had faired poorly in the 2003 European championships, whereupon the team did not qualify for the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad, held in 2004, in Athens, Greece, and, having had to play an elimination game against Turkey, to whom Germany had lost on a buzzer beater during the 2001 European championships, on September 20, a quarterfinal game against Slovenia just three days later, and a semifinal game against Spain one day thither, Germany were not expected to reach the championship game.
Behind Nowitzki and center Patrick Femerling, who accumulated the second-most points and rebounds of all German players, Germany reached the title game before falling in the final, contested in the Belgrade Arena, 78-62, to Greece, who were paced by point guard Theodoros Papaloukas, center Lazaros Papadopoulos, and shooting guard Dimitrios Diamantidis. In view of their performances, Greece and Germany, along with bronze medallists France, Spain, Lithuania national basketball team, and Slovenia advanced to the Basketball World Championship 2006, to be hosted by Japan.
[edit] May 28 to July 4, 2006
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Eugene Edgerson, who played collegiate basketball at the University of Arizona, attempts a reverse layup while playing for the Harlem Globetrotters against the New York Nationals, a frequent and hapless opponent of the Globetrotters. The Globetrotters, who were created in 1927 by Abe Saperstein, are a team who combine flashy athleticism with comedy, especially in fixed events against the Nationals and the Washington Generals; the Globetrotters have had success against many other professional and amateur opponents, though, and have lost only 345 of the more than 22,000 games the team has played in more than 100 countries.
[edit] May 9 to May 28, 2006
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Small Forward Julius Erving scores a fantastic dunk for the Philadelphia 76ers.
