2006 in basketball
The following are the basketball events of the year 2006 throughout the world.
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- American Basketball Association
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Tournaments include international (FIBA), professional (club) and amateur and collegiate levels.
Championships
International
Professional
Men
- NBA season and playoffs:
- Euroleague (Europe-wide):
- CSKA Moscow defeated Maccabi Tel Aviv 73-69 in the final
- Croatian League:
- French League:
- Le Mans defeated Nancy 93-88 in the one-off final
- German Bundesliga:
- RheinEnergie Köln defeated ALBA Berlin 3-1 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:
- 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 Žalgiris 4-0 in the best-of-seven finals
- Philippine Basketball Association 2005-06 season:
- Red Bull Barako over the Purefoods Chunkee Giants 4-2 in the Fiesta Conference Finals. Finals MVP: Lordy Tugade
- Purefoods Chunkee Giants over Red Bull Barako 4-2 in the Philippine Cup Finals. Finals MVP: Marc Pingris
- Polish League:
- Prokom Trefl Sopot over Anwil Włocławek 4-1 in the best-of-seven finals
- Russian Super League:
- Serbia and Montenegro Super League:
- Spanish ACB:
- Turkish Basketball League:
- Ülkerspor over Efes Pilsen 4-0 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:
- Adriatic League:
Women
College
Hope College women's team raises 2006 NCAA Division III championship trophy.
- Women
- NCAA
- NAIA
- NJCAA[1]
- Division I: Monroe CC (Rochester, NY) 76, Odessa College (TX) 64
- Division II: Illinois Central College 71, Kirkwood CC (IA) 54
- Division III: Monroe College (Bronx, NY) 100, Mohawk Valley CC (NY) 70
- UAAP Women's: University of Santo Tomas over Far Eastern University, 2 games to 1
Prep
- USA Today Boys Basketball Ranking #1: Lawrence North High School, Indianapolis, Indiana
- USA Today Girls Basketball Ranking #1: Christ the King, Queens, New York
- NCAA (Philippines) Juniors: San Sebastian Recoletos High School over Philippine Christian University Union High School, 2 games to 0
- UAAP Juniors: Ateneo de Manila High School over Far Eastern University-Nicanor Reyes Educational Foundation, 2 games to 1
Awards and honors
Professional
Collegiate
- 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 — Ray Meyer, American Hall of Fame coach of the DePaul University men's team (born 1913)
- April 6 — Maggie Dixon, women's coach at Army (born 1977)
- April 6 — Price Brookfield, American NBA player (born 1920)
- May 6 — Bob Dro, national champion at Indiana and Indianapolis Kautskys player (born 1918)
- May 9 — Grady Wallace, All-American and national scoring champion at South Carolina
- 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)
- October 5 — Cleveland Buckner, American NBA player (New York Knicks) (born 1938)
- 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, Former Detroit Pistons and Los Angeles Lakers player (born 1936)
- December 12 — Paul Arizin, Hall of Famer for the Philadelphia Warriors who twice led the NBA in scoring (born 1928)
- December 13 — Lamar Hunt, Last remaining original ownership partner of the Chicago Bulls (born 1932)
See also
References
External links
Media related to 2006 in basketball at Wikimedia Commons
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