2006-07 NBA Season
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50 free 2006-07 NBA Season trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
The 2006-07 NBA season packed a decade of drama into eight months. A top seed with one of the best records in league history went out in the first round, a fight in New York ended with ten ejections, and the league had to take back a piece of equipment its own players refused to accept. This quiz follows the whole campaign, from the summer draft to the last night of the Finals. Expect questions on the award winners, the trades and suspensions that reshaped contenders, All-Star Weekend, the scoring outbursts, the rookies who arrived and the veterans who bowed out. It is written for fans who watched that year and want to see what stuck, and for quiz hosts who need accurate questions with answers. Every question comes with a short explanation, so even a wrong guess leaves you with a story from the season.
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Q 01Which player won the 2006–07 NBA MVP award despite his 67-win team losing in the first round of the playoffs?
Dirk Nowitzki
Dirk Nowitzki became the first European player to win the award, beating his friend Steve Nash, the winner of the previous two. He also became only the fifth member of the 50–40–90 shooting club.
Q 02Which player scored his team's final 25 points in a double-overtime win at Detroit in the 2007 NBA playoffs?
LeBron James
LeBron James finished with 48 points and scored 29 of Cleveland's last 30 to win Game 5 by two. Cleveland closed out the series at home to reach its first NBA Finals.
Q 03Which San Antonio player was named MVP of the 2007 NBA Finals, the first European-born winner of the award?
Tony Parker
Tony Parker, born in Belgium and raised in France, scored a series-high 24.5 points a game as San Antonio swept Cleveland. It was the franchise's fourth title in nine seasons.
Q 04Which guard scored 50 or more points in four straight games in March 2007, starting with 65 against Portland?
Kobe Bryant
Kobe Bryant became only the second player with four straight 50-point games, after Wilt Chamberlain. He had swapped his jersey number from 8 to 24 before the season began.
Q 05Which star guard did Philadelphia trade to Denver in December 2006, during his 11th season with the 76ers?
Allen Iverson
Allen Iverson went west with Ivan McFarlin for Andre Miller, Joe Smith and two first-round picks. He landed one day after his new team's top scorer had been suspended for fighting.
Q 06Which star, then the NBA's leading scorer, was suspended 15 games after a December 2006 brawl at Madison Square Garden?
Carmelo Anthony
Carmelo Anthony punched Mardy Collins as the fighting was dying down, and all ten players on the court were ejected. His ban was the longest of the seven handed out.
Q 07What was new about the official game ball the NBA introduced for 2006–07 and withdrew after players complained?
A synthetic cover
A synthetic cover replaced real leather, but players said the ball turned slick, bounced oddly off the rim and cut their fingers. The league went back to leather on January 1, 2007.
Q 08Where was the 2007 NBA All-Star Game held, the first played in a place without an NBA franchise?
Las Vegas
Las Vegas staged the game in a college arena on the UNLV campus, and Nevada's sportsbooks were barred from taking bets on it. The West won 153–132.
Q 09Which coach guided eighth-seeded Golden State past top seed Dallas in 2007, beating the team he coached until 2005?
Don Nelson
Don Nelson had named Avery Johnson as his successor in Dallas two years earlier, then knocked out Johnson's 67-win team in six games. No eighth seed had won a best-of-seven series before.
Q 10Which NBA referee, who worked the 2006–07 season, resigned in July 2007 during an FBI probe into betting on games?
Tim Donaghy
Tim Donaghy pleaded guilty a month later to two federal charges, including passing wagering information across state lines. He was sentenced to 15 months in prison.
Q 11Which guard, drafted sixth out of the University of Washington, was named the 2006–07 NBA Rookie of the Year?
Brandon Roy
Brandon Roy took 127 of the 128 first-place votes even though injury held him to 57 games. Minnesota had picked him, then dealt him to Portland the same night.
Q 12Which Italian big man did Toronto take first overall in the 2006 NBA draft, the first European chosen number one?
Andrea Bargnani
Andrea Bargnani had been playing for Benetton Treviso, and only Yao Ming before him had gone first without attending an American school. He made the All-Rookie First Team.
Q 13Which guard nicknamed Agent Zero scored 60 points in an overtime win at the Lakers in December 2006?
Gilbert Arenas
Q 21Which speedy guard won the 2006–07 NBA Sixth Man of the Year award, averaging 18 points a game off the bench?
Leandro Barbosa
Leandro Barbosa, known as the Brazilian Blur for his pace, backed up Steve Nash on a Phoenix team that won 61 games. He later won a title with Golden State.
Q 22Which guard, drafted straight from high school in 2005's second round, was the NBA's Most Improved Player for 2006–07?
Monta Ellis
Monta Ellis raised his scoring by 9.7 points a game from his rookie year, the biggest jump in the league. The 40th pick of his draft, he helped Golden State end a long playoff absence.
Q 23Which coach won the 2006–07 NBA Coach of the Year award after leading Toronto to its first division title?
Sam Mitchell
Gilbert Arenas broke Earl Monroe's Washington franchise record of 56, which had stood since 1968. The nickname came from the zero on his jersey.
Q 14Which reigning Finals MVP left a February 2007 game in Houston in a wheelchair after dislocating his shoulder?
Dwyane Wade
Dwyane Wade put off surgery and rehabbed in time for the playoffs, returning with a black sleeve on the shoulder. Miami's title defense still ended in a first-round sweep.
Q 15Which San Antonio forward was suspended two games for body-checking Steve Nash in the 2007 NBA playoffs?
Robert Horry
Robert Horry's hit also cost Phoenix two players, each banned one game for leaving the bench to check on Nash. San Antonio won the next game on the road, and then the series.
Q 16Which Boston coaching legend, famous for his victory cigars, died days before the 2006–07 NBA season opened?
Red Auerbach
Red Auerbach was 89 and still the team's president when he died of a heart attack. The Celtics went on to lose a franchise-record 18 straight games that winter.
Q 17Where did the New Orleans Hornets play most home games in 2006–07, a second season away after Hurricane Katrina?
Oklahoma City
Oklahoma City staged the majority of the schedule at the Ford Center for a second year. The Hornets went home full-time the next season, and Oklahoma City got its own team when the Seattle SuperSonics moved in 2008.
Q 18Which sportswear company became the NBA's official uniform supplier for 2006–07, a role it kept until 2017?
Adidas
Adidas had bought Reebok, the league's previous supplier, and moved the contract over to its own three-stripe brand. The deal was worth more than $400 million.
Q 19Which Ohio State center did Portland draft first overall in June 2007 after winning the lottery against long odds?
Greg Oden
Greg Oden missed his entire first season after knee surgery and managed only 82 games over the next two. Portland had held just a 5.3 percent chance of winning the lottery.
Q 20Which center won the 2006–07 NBA Defensive Player of the Year award while leading the league in blocked shots?
Marcus Camby
Marcus Camby averaged 3.3 blocks a game for Denver and took the trophy from Ben Wallace, who had won it in four of the previous five seasons.
Sam Mitchell had sat through losing seasons while Toronto rebuilt, then delivered the Atlantic Division crown and the team's first playoff trip since 2002.
Q 24Which point guard averaged a triple-double across his team's 12 games in the 2007 NBA playoffs?
Jason Kidd
Jason Kidd put up 14.6 points, 10.9 rebounds and 10.9 assists a game for New Jersey. Along the way he passed Larry Bird for second place in career playoff triple-doubles.
Q 25Which former Raptors star was booed every time he touched the ball in Toronto during the 2007 NBA playoffs?
Vince Carter
Vince Carter had left Toronto in an acrimonious trade in 2004, and his New Jersey team knocked the Raptors out in six games. It was the first playoff meeting between the two clubs.
Q 26Which swingman, traded from Indiana in January 2007, hit seven three-pointers as Golden State eliminated Dallas?
Stephen Jackson
Stephen Jackson scored 13 straight points in an 18–0 third-quarter run, and his seven threes set a franchise playoff record. He had arrived in an eight-player deal.
Q 27Which guard led the NBA in steals in 2006–07 and threw down a famous playoff dunk over Utah's Andrei Kirilenko?
Baron Davis
Baron Davis had knee surgery during the season and still averaged 25.3 points in the playoffs, steering an eighth seed into the second round.
Q 28Which young center slapped a sticker of his own face high on the backboard in the 2007 Slam Dunk Contest?
Dwight Howard
Dwight Howard stuck it 12 feet 6 inches up while finishing an alley-oop from an Orlando teammate, yet he still missed out on the final round.
Q 29Which high flyer won the 2007 NBA Slam Dunk Contest, sealing it with a perfect score for leaping over a table?
Gerald Green
Gerald Green beat Nate Robinson in the final before a judging panel of past champions that included Michael Jordan and Julius Erving. He played for a Boston team that lost 58 games.
Q 30Which team won a playoff series for the first time since 1998 by sweeping defending champion Miami in 2007?
Chicago Bulls
The Chicago Bulls had not won a series since Michael Jordan's final title run. Miami became the first defending champion in 50 seasons to be swept in the opening round.