2006 in basketball
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The following are the basketball events of the year 2006 throughout the world.
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Tournaments include international (FIBA), professional (club) and amateur and collegiate levels.
International
- 2006 FIBA World Championship:
- Gold medal:
Spain - Silver medal:
Greece - Bronze medal:
USA - MVP: Pau Gasol, Spain
- All-tournament team:
- Pau Gasol
- Carmelo Anthony (USA)
- Jorge Garbajosa (Spain)
Manu Ginóbili (Argentina)- Theodoros Papaloukas (Greece)
- Gold medal:
- 2006 FIBA World Championship for Women
- Gold medal:
Australia - Silver medal:
Russia - Bronze medal: USA
- MVP: Penny Taylor, Australia
- Gold medal:
- Basketball at the 2006 Asian Games
- Men's tournament:
- Women's tournament:
- Gold medal:
China - Silver medal:
Chinese Taipei - Bronze medal:
Japan
- Gold medal:
Professional
Men
NBA season and playoffs:
- EuroLeague (Europe-wide):
- CSKA Moscow defeated Maccabi Tel Aviv 73–69 in the final
Croatian League:
French League:
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:
- Saba Battery defeat Petrochimi 3–0 in the best-of-five final.
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:
- CSKA Moscow over Khimki 3–0 in the best-of-five finals
Serbia and Montenegro Super League:
- Spanish ACB:
- Unicaja Málaga over TAU Cerámica 3–0 in the best-of-five finals
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:
- Newcastle Eagles defeated Scottish Rocks 83–68 in the one-off final
Adriatic League:
Women
College
- Men
- NCAA
- Division I: Florida 73, UCLA 57
- National Invitation Tournament: South Carolina 76, Michigan 64
- Division II: Winona State 73, Virginia Union 61
- Division III: Virginia Wesleyan 59, Wittenberg 56
- NAIA
- NAIA Division I: Texas Wesleyan 67, Oklahoma City 65
- NAIA Division II: College of the Ozarks (Mo.) 74, Huntington (Ind.) 56
- NJCAA
- Division I: Arkansas-Ft. Smith 68, Tallahassee CC (FL) 59
- Division II: Cecil CC 9 (MD) 64, Kirkwood CC (IA) 63
- Division III: North Lake College (TX) 78, Gloucester County College (N.J.) 65
- UAAP Men's: University of Santo Tomas over Ateneo de Manila University, 2 games to 1
- NCAA (Philippines) Seniors': San Beda College over Philippine Christian University, 2 games to 1
- Women
- NCAA
- Division I: Maryland 78, Duke 75 OT
- WNIT: Kansas State 77, Marquette 65
- Division II: Grand Valley State 58, American International 52
- Division III Hope 69, Southern Maine 56
- NAIA
- NAIA Division I: Union (TN) 79, Lubbock Christian (TX) 62
- NAIA Division II Hastings (Neb.) 58, College of the Ozarks (Mo.) 39
- NJCAA[1]
- Division I: Monroe CC (Rochester, New York) 76, Odessa College (TX) 64
- Division II: Illinois Central College 71, Kirkwood CC (IA) 54
- Division III: Monroe College (Bronx, New York) 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
Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame
- Class of 2006:[2]
Women's Basketball Hall of Fame
- Class of 2006[3]
Professional
- Men
- NBA Most Valuable Player Award: Steve Nash
- NBA Rookie of the Year Award: Chris Paul
- NBA Defensive Player of the Year Award: Ben Wallace
- NBA Coach of the Year Award: Avery Johnson
- FIBA Europe Player of the Year Award: Theodoros Papaloukas, CSKA Moscow and Greece
- Euroscar Award: Dirk Nowitzki, Dallas Mavericks and Germany
- Mr. Europa: Jorge Garbajosa, Toronto Raptors and Spain (also Unicaja Málaga)
- Women
- WNBA Most Valuable Player Award: Lisa Leslie, Los Angeles Sparks
- WNBA Defensive Player of the Year Award: Tamika Catchings, Indiana Fever
- WNBA Rookie of the Year Award: Seimone Augustus, Minnesota Lynx
- WNBA Most Improved Player Award: Erin Buescher, Sacramento Monarchs
- Kim Perrot Sportsmanship Award: Dawn Staley, Houston Comets
- WNBA Coach of the Year Award: Mike Thibault, Connecticut Sun
- WNBA Finals Most Valuable Player Award: Deanna Nolan, Detroit Shock
- FIBA Europe Player of the Year Award: Maria Stepanova, CSKA Samara and Russia
Collegiate
- Combined
- Men
- John R. Wooden Award: J. J. Redick, Duke
- Naismith College Coach of the Year: Jay Wright, Villanova
- Frances Pomeroy Naismith Award: Dee Brown, Illinois
- Associated Press College Basketball Player of the Year: J. J. Redick, Duke
- NCAA basketball tournament Most Outstanding Player: Corey Brewer, Florida
- USBWA National Freshman of the Year: Tyler Hansbrough, North Carolina
- Associated Press College Basketball Coach of the Year: Roy Williams (coach), North Carolina
- Naismith Outstanding Contribution to Basketball: Jerry Colangelo
- 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)
- April 19 — Gene Rosenthal, American NBL player (Pittsburgh Pirates) (born 1914)
- 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
- May 18 — Irving Meretsky, Canadian Olympic silver medalist (1936) (born 1912)
- 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)
- August 18 — Dick Hickox, American college All-American (Miami Hurricanes) (born 1938)
- September 7 — Ozell Jones, American NBA player (San Antonio Spurs, Los Angeles Clippers) (born 1960)
- October 5 — Cleveland Buckner, American NBA player (New York Knicks) (born 1938)
- October 5 — George King, American NBA player (Syracuse Nationals, Cincinnati Royals) and college coach (West Virginia, Purdue) (born 1928)
- October 25 — Johnny Hoekstra, American NBL player (Kankakee Gallagher Trojans) (born 1917)
- 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, American NBA player (Detroit Pistons, Los Angeles Lakers) (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, original ownership partner of the Chicago Bulls (born 1932)
- December 21 — Warren Hair, American NBL player (Kankakee Gallagher Trojans) (born 1918)
- December 29 — Charlie Tyra, All-American college (Louisville) and NBA player (New York Knicks, Chicago Packers) (born 1935)
