Free NBA Basketball Trivia Questions and Answers

Trivia quiz questions and answers about basketball.

Free NBA Basketball Trivia Questions and Answers

What hoopster scored in double figures in 787 straight games, from December 4, 1977 to December 4, 1987?
What NBA team retired jersey numbers 3, 33, 32, and 35 in the 1990s?
What NBA team plays home games in an arena located at Two Pennsylvania Plaza?
What NBA hoopster averaged an amazing 48.5 minutes per game, including overtime, in the 1961-62 season?
What NBA hoopster is known as "The Worm"?
What NBA star retired for the third time on May 14, 1996?
How many rules did James Naismith originally write to define basketball --13, 33, or 53?

Who led the NBA in hair colors in 1995?
What seven-foot-one NBA center's first name translates as "little one"?
What do you have to be in the NBA to win the Eddie Gottlieb Trophy?
Whose all-time NBA assists record was broken by John Stockton in 1995?
What basketball team had drubbed the New Jersey Reds 2,495 times straight before losing to them 100-99 in 1971?
What city decided to call its new NBA team the Grizzlies, after much debate?
Whose 1996 return to the NBA earned him simultaneous Time, Newsweek, U.S. News and Sports Illustrated covers?
What Celtics star of the 1980s did the Boston Globe say looked like Herman Munster?

What was the first NBA team to win 70 games or more in the regular season?
Who holds the NBA scoring mark for a single half, with 59 points?
What nickname did NBA star Karl Malone earn for his ability to deliver in the clutch?
How many NBA titles did Magic Johnson help the Lakers win as a player?
What former L.A. Lakers guard became the team's general manger?
What hoopsters did major league pitches Bob Gibson and Ferguson Jenkins once play for?