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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 feet 11 inches (1.19 m) 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?