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1 October 2026. Ten stories from the EuroLeague, the NBA and FIBA, from a small Belgian town in 1977 to Madrid in 2007.

Quiz questions

  1. All four of these players were named NBA MVP exactly twice. Which of them was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, and only took basketball seriously as a teenager?
  2. In February 1977 a European Cup game between Maccabi Tel Aviv and CSKA Moscow could not be played in either country, so it was moved to the small Belgian town of Virton. Maccabi won, and that April in Belgrade they beat, by a single point, an Italian club that had won the trophy five times in the previous seven years. Which club?
  3. In the EuroBasket 2007 final in Madrid, hosts Spain lost by a single point. The winners were led by a Utah Jazz forward who was named MVP, and the winning shot, with two seconds left, came from a naturalised American point guard. Which country won?
  4. Between 2000 and 2003 one forward won the EuroLeague three times in four seasons: twice with a Greek club, then with a Spanish club at a Final Four held in that club's own city, where he was named MVP. Who is he?
  5. Kevin Durant was the second pick of the 2007 draft and was named Rookie of the Year the following spring. In which city did he play that first season?
  6. In 1992 a club won the European Champions Cup in Istanbul with a three at the buzzer, in a season when war at home forced it to play its home games in a suburb of Madrid. Its coach was 32 and had still been playing for the same club a year earlier. Which club?
  7. The first NBA Finals MVP award was presented in 1969, and it is still the only one ever given to a player from the losing team. Who won it?
  8. In 2002 in Indianapolis, a USA team of NBA players lost for the first time and finished only sixth. The first team to beat them had a guard who would win an NBA title with his new club the following June. Which country?
  9. Before the 1983 playoffs Moses Malone predicted his 76ers would sweep every round: "Fo', fo', fo'". After a first-round bye they went 12-1. The only team to beat them had just swept the Boston Celtics. Which team was it?
  10. In the 1996 final in Paris, a Greek club beat Barcelona by one point when a Croatian centre blocked José Antonio Montero's last-second shot, a block Barcelona still call goaltending. Which club won its first European title that night?

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