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Interesting team facts 

Post#1 » by Ein Sof » Mon Sep 19, 2022 5:29 pm

Please share trivia about NBA teams here.

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The OKC Thunder have never faced a Kings team that finished with a .500 record.



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Post#2 » by Colbinii » Mon Sep 19, 2022 6:02 pm

Is this interesting? Are you including the Seattle team?

Everyone knows its been since the early 2000s since the Kings made the playoffs.

Everyone knows the Thunder moved to Oklahoma City after the Kings last playoff appearance.
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Post#3 » by Texas Chuck » Mon Sep 19, 2022 6:46 pm

The Celtics primarily play their home games in Boston.
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Post#4 » by Texas Chuck » Mon Sep 19, 2022 6:47 pm

The Grizzlies used to be based in Canada, but now they are not. But the Raptors are still based in Canada.
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Post#5 » by Texas Chuck » Mon Sep 19, 2022 6:47 pm

The Cavaliers have had players on their roster over 7 feet tall.
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Post#6 » by Texas Chuck » Mon Sep 19, 2022 6:48 pm

The Hawks sell Coca Cola products in their concession stands.
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Post#7 » by sp6r=underrated » Mon Sep 19, 2022 6:49 pm

Colbinii wrote:Is this interesting? Are you including the Seattle team?

Everyone knows its been since the early 2000s since the Kings made the playoffs.

Everyone knows the Thunder moved to Oklahoma City after the Kings last playoff appearance.


I found it interesting. You'd figure there would have been one year that caught em at 3-2.
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Post#8 » by Jaivl » Mon Sep 19, 2022 8:01 pm

An interesting fact: Oklahoma is the coolest franchise in the NBA!
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Post#9 » by Colbinii » Mon Sep 19, 2022 8:07 pm

Texas Chuck wrote:The Hawks sell Coca Cola products in their concession stands.


Did I hack your account?
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Post#10 » by penbeast0 » Tue Sep 20, 2022 2:33 am

The Wizards/Bullets have had the two tallest and two shortest players in NBA history play for the franchise (3 are obvious to team fans, the 4th was Earl Boykins).
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Post#11 » by dooki667 » Wed Sep 21, 2022 9:38 am

everyone knows the knickerbockers are a type of pants but the name has another link. It's the pseudonym of the writer Washington Irving, who wrote many classic short stories such as Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, but also wrote a book “A history of New York “under the name Knickerbocker.
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Post#12 » by penbeast0 » Wed Sep 21, 2022 8:11 pm

dooki667 wrote:everyone knows the knickerbockers are a type of pants but the name has another link. It's the pseudonym of the writer Washington Irving, who wrote many classic short stories such as Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, but also wrote a book “A history of New York “under the name Knickerbocker.


I thought the name was based on this:

capitalized : a descendant of the early Dutch settlers of New York
broadly : a native or resident of the city or state of New York —used as a nickname
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Post#13 » by tsherkin » Wed Sep 21, 2022 10:32 pm

penbeast0 wrote:The Wizards/Bullets have had the two tallest and two shortest players in NBA history play for the franchise (3 are obvious to team fans, the 4th was Earl Boykins).


Bol, Mhuresan and Muggsy, ya?
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Post#14 » by penbeast0 » Wed Sep 21, 2022 11:42 pm

tsherkin wrote:
penbeast0 wrote:The Wizards/Bullets have had the two tallest and two shortest players in NBA history play for the franchise (3 are obvious to team fans, the 4th was Earl Boykins).


Bol, Mhuresan and Muggsy, ya?


Ya.
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Post#15 » by dooki667 » Thu Sep 22, 2022 12:39 am

penbeast0 wrote:
dooki667 wrote:everyone knows
the knickerbockers are a type of pants but the name has another link. It's the pseudonym of the writer Washington Irving, who wrote many classic short stories such as Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, but also wrote a book “A history of New York “under the name Knickerbocker.


I thought the name was based on this:

capitalized : a descendant of the early Dutch settlers of New York
broadly : a native or resident of the city or state of New York —used as a nickname
MerriamWebster.com

your not really wrong it's just the book is where the dutch new yorkers got it from.
'The name "Knickerbocker" first acquired meaning with Washington Irving's History of New York, which featured the fictional author Diedrich Knickerbocker, an old-fashioned Dutch New Yorker in Irving's satire of chatty and officious local history.[4] In fact, Washington Irving had a real friend named Herman Knickerbocker (1779–1855), whose name he borrowed.'
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Post#16 » by penbeast0 » Thu Sep 22, 2022 12:43 am

nice, thanks
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Post#17 » by Statlanta » Sun Oct 9, 2022 2:29 am

The Golden State Warriors had both D'Angelo Russell and Nick Young on their roster and had no TMZ leaks ruin their season.
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Post#18 » by Jaivl » Sun Oct 9, 2022 1:53 pm

Statlanta wrote:The Golden State Warriors had both D'Angelo Russell and Nick Young on their roster and had no TMZ leaks ruin their season.

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Post#19 » by SNPA » Sun Oct 9, 2022 7:57 pm

Kings are the oldest professional basketball team in the world and will celebrate 100 years next season.
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Post#20 » by SkyHookFTW » Mon Oct 10, 2022 1:10 am

During the 1960’s, when the 76ers travelled to play Boston, there were numerous occasions that the hot water pipes leading to the visitor’s showers were “broken” and shut down for repairs.
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