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NBA Basketball by Year, 2000–present

We give you one question about NBA basketball for every year since 2000. Can you answer them all?
Also see 1970–1999
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Last updated: November 26, 2023
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First submittedNovember 5, 2019
Times taken32,478
Average score87.5%
Rating4.13
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Year
Clue
Answer
2023
French giant drafted with the #1 overall pick
Victor Wembanyama
2022
European star who won his second consecutive MVP award
Nikola Jokić
2021
Star who scored 50 points in Game 6 to clinch an NBA finals title
title for the Bucks
Giannis Antetokounmpo
2020
City which hosted the "bubble" in which all playoff games were held
Orlando
2019
Player who led the Raptors to a title in his only year with the team
Kawhi Leonard
2018
Team which missed 27 straight 3-pointers in a Game 7 conference finals loss
Houston Rockets
2017
Player who averaged a triple-double for the entire season
Russell Westbrook
2016
Superstar who started his "next chapter" with the Golden State Warriors
Kevin Durant
2015
Warriors player who won a finals MVP for defending Lebron
Andre Iguodala
2014
Coach who won his 5th NBA title
Gregg Popovich
2013
Player who set a record for most three-pointers in a season
(which he would later beat multiple times)
Stephen Curry
2012
Player who sparked a short-lived "insanity" at Madison Square Garden
Jeremy Lin
2011
Youngest player in history to win an MVP award
Derrick Rose
2010
Where Lebron James said he was taking his talents
South Beach
2009
Finger-waving Congolese center who retired after 18 seasons
Dikembe Mutombo
2008
Team which moved to Oklahoma City
Seattle SuperSonics
2007
Player who left the Timberwolves to become part of the Celtics "Big 3"
Kevin Garnett
2006
Player who scored 81 points in a single game
Kobe Bryant
2005
Canadian player who won his first of two MVP awards
Steve Nash
2004
Player who was traded from the Lakers to the Heat
Shaquille O'Neal
2003
Player who retired for the 3rd and final time
Michael Jordan
2002
Pistons star who won his first of four Defensive Player of the Year awards
Ben Wallace
2001
Shortest player ever to win an MVP award (listed at 6'0")
Allen Iverson
2000
Player who won the dunk contest in one of the greatest performances ever
Vince Carter
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Level 63
Nov 5, 2019
Yikes. An average of 100% on every answer so far....
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Level 89
Nov 8, 2019
The first one as a guessing game would be hard as to how someone chooses to be offended or puts on a show pretending to be offended.
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Level 79
Nov 26, 2023
What
+8
Level 67
Nov 28, 2019
How could you not include the Malice at the Palace?! Probably the craziest thing ever to happen in the NBA, and definitely the best of the monikers the media has bestowed on events, across all sports, politics, and weather.
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Level 65
Nov 28, 2019
When you have too many answers in the same category, it becomes easy to just guess them without actually knowing the trivia
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Level 82
Oct 11, 2020
Yeah i just entered some famous players and some teams
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Level 87
Oct 23, 2020
"Houston" does not work for the Rockets question about missing all the 3s. Can you update this so Houston will qualify as a correct answer? thanks
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Level 78
Dec 14, 2021
Most questions are pretty basic, but I enjoyed it
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Level 81
Jan 22, 2022
It's crazy that we're closer in time to Linsanity than Linsanity is to Space Jam.

Really makes you think.

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Level 78
Mar 16, 2023
Linsanity is also closer to the reign of Cleopatra than Cleopatra was to the building of the Great Pyramid.
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Level 84
Nov 26, 2023
More options for Wemby would be appreciated. I got credit for Popovich and Antetonkoumpo that were not particularly close, but one letter off on Wemby was a miss.
+2
Level 79
Nov 26, 2023
Just put Wemby
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Level ∞
Nov 26, 2023
Yes, Wemby would have worked.
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Level 67
Nov 26, 2023
Spelled Wembanyama wrong
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Level 78
Nov 27, 2023
The double Wallace questions should probably be changed.
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Level ∞
Nov 27, 2023
Fixed