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Basketball interesting facts
 * ... that former Basketball Bundesliga player Dennis Tinnon worked at a slaughterhouse before he was recruited to play college basketball?
 * ... that the 2014 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Championship Game, held between UConn and Notre Dame, was the first to feature two undefeated teams?
 * ... that after coming back for a fifth season at Stanford, Anna Wilson won the 2021 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Championship Game with the Cardinal?
 * ... that the 1951 film The Basketball Fix is based on a real-life scandal involving college basketball betting?
 * ... that LaVon Mercer, who was homeless as a teenager, played in the Israeli Basketball Premier League for 14 years and was its 1980–81 season MVP?
 * ... that Jim Drucker, the founder of the world's largest online-only comic bookstore, was also the commissioner of both the Continental Basketball Association and the Arena Football League?
 * ... that Anne Patzwald has worked as an occupational therapist at a clinic that employs three other current or former members of the German women's wheelchair basketball national team?
 * ... that despite being the son of a professional basketball player, Luka Šamanić did not begin playing the game until the age of 11?
 * ... that Canadian national basketball player Élodie Tessier is 3 ft tall?
 * ... that Sekou Doumbouya signed his first professional basketball contract at age 15?
 * ... that college basketball player Johnny Dee played through a knee injury for most of a season while leading the NCAA Division I in free throw shooting percentage?
 * ... that German wheelchair basketball player Barbara Gross plays for the University of Alabama team, which includes two other Germans?
 * ... that Canadian wheelchair basketball player Sandrine Bérubé is a brown belt in karate?
 * ... that basketball player Bol Bol received his first NCAA Division I offer at the age of 15?
 * ... that Reggie Upshaw was considered one of Tennessee's best high school athletes in American football, basketball, and the high jump?
 * ... that basketball player Trey Lewis transferred to Louisville with hopes of reaching the NCAA Tournament, but the team declared itself ineligible for the tournament after he joined?
 * ... that Matt Mobley set an Atlantic 10 basketball tournament record with nine 3-pointers in a victory over Richmond?
 * ... that in 2006, social-justice advocate Ronnie L. Podolefsky represented six female athletes who accused their high-school basketball coach of sexual misconduct?
 * ... that Ben Carter and his brother Tim played basketball for Team USA at the 2013 Maccabiah Games, winning a gold medal?


 * ... that at the age of 13, Madeleine Thompson (pictured) was the youngest wheelchair basketball player ever to represent Great Britain?
 * ... that Zena Edosomwan was the first top-100 high school basketball recruit to commit to Harvard?
 * ... that during his time in Slovakia to play professional basketball, J. R. Cadot was assaulted and followed to the hospital by a racist mob?
 * ... that professional basketball player Daniel Dixon enrolled in military school after drawing interest from only one college during high school?
 * ... that the 2018 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship saw the best-ever performance by Team Great Britain, which won the men's competition and was runner-up in the women's?
 * ... that basketball player Zach Hankins helped Ferris State win its first Division II title in 2018, being named the tournament's most valuable player?
 * ... that in 2018, Moses Brown was the top-ranked player in a UCLA Bruins incoming class that also includes the son of a Basketball Hall of Famer?
 * ... that after being rejected by European and Chinese teams, DeMario Mayfield began his professional basketball career in an Iraqi league?
 * ... that basketball player Trey Kell signed with the Bosnian team Igokea over nine other European offers?
 * ... that the 2018 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship took place at the Edel-optics.de Arena in Hamburg?
 * ... that the first NCAA Basketball Championship Game was attended by James Naismith, the inventor of basketball?
 * ... that Canadian basketball player Grandy Glaze made his professional debut in the Liga Nacional de Baloncesto Profesional, which he led in rebounding?
 * ... that Jim Drucker, the founder of the world's largest online-only comic bookstore, was also the commissioner of both the Continental Basketball Association and the Arena Football League?
 * ... that among the U.S. women's high school basketball class of 2016, ESPNW ranked Crystal Dangerfield as the best point guard?
 * ... that the Indiana Hoosiers' victory in the 1976 NCAA Division I Basketball Championship Game completed the last undefeated season in NCAA Division I men's college basketball?
 * ... that American-Israeli basketball player Bryan Cohen is the only athlete in the history of the Patriot League to win its Defensive Player of Year award three times?
 * ... that the 1951 film The Basketball Fix is based on a real-life scandal involving college basketball betting?
 * ... that President Barack Obama celebrated his 50th birthday by playing basketball with Shane Battier, LeBron James, Magic Johnson, Maya Moore, Alonzo Mourning, Joakim Noah, Chris Paul, and Derrick Rose?
 * ... that LaVon Mercer, who was homeless as a teenager, played in the Israeli Basketball Premier League for 14 years and was its 1980–81 season MVP?
 * ... that the UConn student body voted 169–7 to fire the basketball coach after he benched Harrison Fitch because a rival team refused to play against an African American?