Almost Daily Trivia Quiz #114 Trivia Quiz About Basketball

Free basketball trivia questions with answers.

1. What Indiana Pacer did Knicks fan Spike Lee anger during the 1994 playoffs by calling him "Cheryl"?
    
2. What franchise has played in the most NBA finals since 1947?
    
3. What two NBA players won the MVP trophy three times each from 1986 through 1992?
    
4. What player did the Boston Celtics draft between won-lost seasons of 29-53 and 61-21?
    
5. What Baltic country did Portland Trail Blazer Arvydas Sabonis play for at the 1996 Olympics?
    
6. What NBA team became the first to defeat the Boston Celtics in 12 straight games, in 1995?
    
7. Who was the first hoopster to win eight NBA scoring titles?
    
8. What NBA team is know in China as "the Red Oxen"?
    
9. Who was the last Boston Celtics coach to lead the team to two straight NBA titles?
    
10. What two NBA stars did Forbes list as the highest paid athletes for 1994?
     
11. What NBA coach got cosmic by penning the Zen book Sacred Hoops: Spiritual Lessons of a Hardwood Warrior?
     
12. Who earned $32 million of his $36 million 1993 earnings from endorsements?
     
13. What 20th-century decade saw the NBA adopt the 24-second shot clock?
     
14. What 1960 rookie bested the league's "triple double" record of two during his first week in the NBA?
     
15. What seven-foot-two Chicago Bulls hoopster was the first Australian to lay in the NBA?
     
16. What future NBA star was dubbed "Boy Gorge" when his weight passed 300 pounds in college?
     
17. What Lakers coach had been an 11th-round pick in the 1967 NFL draft?
     
18. What NBA team plays home games at a facility nicknamed "The O-rena"?
     
19. Who became the NBA's winningest coach ever on January 6, 1995?
     
20. Who netted an NBA record 72.7 field goal percentage in the 1972-73 season?
     
21. What sports team got its name because its owners wanted to "set the pace" in the NBA?
     
22. What NBA star attempted a record 28,307 field goals in regular season games?
     
23. What NBA team started out in 1948 as the Tri-Cities Blackhawks?
     
24. What NBA team failed to make the playoffs in 1994 for the first time since 1976?
     
25. What basketball team was the first in major league sports to be named for an insect?
     
26. What L.A. Lakers great might have played for Chicago if the Bulls had called "tails" in a 1979 NBA coin toss?
     
27. What Chicago Bulls coach has checked into hotels under the pseudonym "Mr. Red Cloud"?
     
28. What NBA team is named after a car part?
     

Answers to Daily Trivia Quiz # 114 - Basketball Trivia.

1. Reggie Miller.
2. The Lakers.
3. Magic Johnson and Michael Jordan.
4. Larry Bird.
5. Lithuania.
6. The New York Knicks.
7. Michael Jordan.
8. The Chicago Bulls.
9. Bill Russell.
10. Michael Jordan and Shaquille O'Neal 
11. Phil Jackson 
12. Michael Jordan. 
13. The 1950s. 
14. Oscar Robertson.
15. Lue Longley
16. Charles Barkley.
17. Pat Riley.
18. The Orlando Magic
19. Lenny Wilkins
20. Wilt Chamberlain. 
21. The Indiana Pacers. 
22. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar 
23. The Atlanta Hawks. 
24. The Los Angeles Lakers.
25. The Charlotte Hornets. 
26. Magic Johnson 
27. Phil Jackson.
28. The Detroit Pistons.