[Trivia Game] Post your unbeatable trivia questions here (so it could be beaten in 10 minutes)

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The first all-defensive teams were for the 1969-69 season. They of course featured a bunch of HoF players.

Also, they featured 4 guys who were selected to the HoF for non-playing reasons. Who were they?

The answers include two guys who are on every greatest-players list, one who made a couple of All-Star games but is more famous for his post-playing career, and one role player who never averaged 13 ppg for a season.

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Who won Defensive Player of the Year while starting only a couple of games?

Who won Defensive Player of the Year while starting about half the games in which he played?

Neither ever won 6MotY, which in both cases surprised me.

[Curmudgeon]

Who is the only guard to win DPOY more than once?

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Overall, 5 6MotY winners are in the HoF. Who are they?

(Obviously, James Harden is on track to eventually be the 6th.)

[mj234eva]

Who won Defensive Player of the Year while starting only a couple of games?

Who won Defensive Player of the Year while starting about half the games in which he played?

Michael Cooper
Dennis Rodman

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Who won Defensive Player of the Year while starting only a couple of games?

Who won Defensive Player of the Year while starting about half the games in which he played?

Michael Cooper
Dennis Rodman

Both correct!

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Who is the only guard to win DPOY more than once?

I was just looking at the DPotY list to confirm my own question, so I'll recuse myself.

I THINK I would have guessed it without that anyway, but there's no way to be honestly sure.

[GSWFan1994]

Who is the only guard to win DPOY more than once?

Sydney Moncrief.

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I just saw this factoid: Joe Mazzulla will be the second-youngest head coach in NBA Finals history.

Who was the youngest?

[Zeno]

I just saw this factoid: Joe Mazzulla will be the second-youngest head coach in NBA Finals history.

Who was the youngest?

Heard this on a pod recently. Player coach, Bill Russell

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I just saw this factoid: Joe Mazzulla will be the second-youngest head coach in NBA Finals history.

Who was the youngest?

Heard this on a pod recently. Player coach, Bill Russell

While we're at it:

-- Who played for the Celtics and was later inducted into the HoF as a coach?
-- Excluding those guys, who played for the Celtics and later was NBA Coach of the Year?

[Zeno]

I just saw this factoid: Joe Mazzulla will be the second-youngest head coach in NBA Finals history.

Who was the youngest?

Heard this on a pod recently. Player coach, Bill Russell

While we're at it:

-- Who played for the Celtics and was later inducted into the HoF as a coach?
-- Excluding those guys, who played for the Celtics and later was NBA Coach of the Year?

Tommy Heinsohn?
Rick Carlisle?

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Heard this on a pod recently. Player coach, Bill Russell

While we're at it:

-- Who played for the Celtics and was later inducted into the HoF as a coach?
-- Excluding those guys, who played for the Celtics and later was NBA Coach of the Year?

Tommy Heinsohn?
Rick Carlisle?

At the moment I can think of 6 HoF coaches -- most but not all of them NBA head coaches -- plus 2 (other) NBA Coaches of the Year.

Heinsohn is indeed one of the first group and Carlisle one of the second.

[murphyslamz]

Who was the Raptors first ever draft pick?

[Bush4Ever]

One of my favorite ones from when I was a kid reading an article about triple-doubles maybe 30 years ago. It's increasingly messier in the triple-double era, so I'll make it more time-relevant:

Question:
Name all the players in NBA history who averaged eight or more points, rebounds, and assists in a season, prior to 1992.

No one ever gets the last name. Answer under the spoiler tag.

Spoiler:

Wilt
Oscar
Magic
MJ
Darrell Walker

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3 different Celtics at various times held the distinction of most 3 pters made in NBA history. Who were they?

Bonus: A 4th once held the single-season record for made 3 pters. Who was he?

Hint: 3 of those 4 guys became NBA head coaches.

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While we're at it:

-- Who played for the Celtics and was later inducted into the HoF as a coach?
-- Excluding those guys, who played for the Celtics and later was NBA Coach of the Year?

Tommy Heinsohn?
Rick Carlisle?

At the moment I can think of 6 HoF coaches -- most but not all of them NBA head coaches -- plus 2 (other) NBA Coaches of the Year.

Heinsohn is indeed one of the first group and Carlisle one of the second.

Whittling this down:

Heinsohn and Russell are both in the HoF as coaches, primarily or exclusively for coaching the Celtics.

2 other guys are in the HoF for coaching other NBA teams. 1 of those two is also in the HoF as a player; the other was a good player but not at that level.

2 other guys are in the HoF for college coaching. One was a total scrub in the NBA; the other was a good defense-first player.

Carlisle is one of the Coaches of the Year. The other was a HoF player whose name has also recently been in NBA news.

So in total we're talking about 4 HoF players, 2 other good players, and 2 total scrubs.

Unless, of course, there are yet more guys who should be on the lists.