Can you name the NBA Rookies of the Year?

Year	Player	Team
1952-53		Fort Wayne Pistons
1953-54		Baltimore Bullets
1954-55		Milwaukee Hawks
1955-56		Rochester Royals
1956-57		Boston Celtics
1957-58		Philadelphia Warriors
1958-59		Minneapolis Lakers
1959-60		Philadelphia Warriors
1960-61		Cincinnati Royals
1961-62		Chicago Packers
1962-63		Chicago Zephyrs
1963-64		Cincinnati Royals
1964-65		New York Knicks
1965-66		San Francisco Warriors
1966-67		Detroit Pistons
1967-68		Baltimore Bullets
1968-69		Baltimore Bullets
1969-70		Milwaukee Bucks
1970-71*		Boston Celtics
1970-71*		Portland Trail Blazers
1971-72		Portland Trail Blazers

Year	Player	Team
1972-73		Buffalo Braves
1973-74		Buffalo Braves
1974-75		Golden State Warriors
1975-76		Phoenix Suns
1976-77		Buffalo Braves
1977-78		Phoenix Suns
1978-79		Kansas City Kings
1979-80		Boston Celtics
1980-81		Utah Jazz
1981-82		New Jersey Nets
1982-83		San Diego Clippers
1983-84		Houston Rockets
1984-85		Chicago Bulls
1985-86		New York Knicks
1986-87		Indiana Pacers
1987-88		New York Knicks
1988-89		Golden State Warriors
1989-90		San Antonio Spurs
1990-91		New Jersey Nets
1991-92		Charlotte Hornets
1992-93		Orlando Magic

Year	Player	Team
1993-94		Golden State Warriors
1994-95*		Detroit Pistons
1994-95*		Dallas Mavericks
1995-96		Toronto Raptors
1996-97		Philadelphia 76ers
1997-98		San Antonio Spurs
1998-99		Toronto Raptors
1999-00*		Chicago Bulls
1999-00*		Houston Rockets
2000-01		Orlando Magic
2001-02		Memphis Grizzlies
2002-03		Phoenix Suns
2003-04		Cleveland Cavaliers
2004-05		Charlotte Bobcats
2005-06		New Orleans Hornets
2006-07		Portland Trail Blazers
2007-08		Seattle SuperSonics
2008-09		Chicago Bulls
2009-10		Sacramento Kings
2010-11		LA Clippers
2011-12		Cleveland Cavaliers

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	Tchaikovsky08:	Oct 16th, 2008 at 06:37 GMT		-2 points
	Just out of curiosity, because I love Sporcle so much, who is user Ben and why can he create so many games? Also, my guess is most people who got Larry Johnson were thinking of Magic Johnson...

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	notrashcougars:	Oct 16th, 2008 at 09:13 GMT		3 points
	I hate to nitpick, but shouldn't it be "Rookies of the Year" instead of "Rookie of the Years"?

	Bouchkilele:	Oct 16th, 2008 at 11:29 GMT		3 points
	In the last 10 years has there been anyone who has failed to live up to his "ROY" potential more than Steve Francis?

	bbf2:	Oct 16th, 2008 at 11:57 GMT		3 points
	Well, Mike Miller isn't exactly lighting up the league these days

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	Kevin:	Oct 16th, 2008 at 13:55 GMT		0 points
	Actually, Mike Miller is one of the best three-point shooters in the league today, and he's hardly a one-dimensional player. In fact, he was on the 2007 USA qualifying team in the Tournament of the Americas. So, speaking about Miller and Franchise in the same breath is insulting. Vernon, if you want to extend a little farther back than ten years, Mighty Mouse hasn't done that much, either.

	Matt8204:	Oct 16th, 2008 at 14:10 GMT		3 points
	Fun quiz. I got 31 out of 59. Not bad, considering I'm not the biggest NBA fan anymore. I still watch on occasion, but it hasn't been the same since Jordan retired. Just my opinion.

	kwelly15:	Oct 16th, 2008 at 15:30 GMT		-4 points
	Good quiz. I agree with you Matt8204. As far as I'm concerned the game died when Jordan retired.

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	Lowboy:	Oct 16th, 2008 at 20:43 GMT		3 points
	Basketball is not boring. You are.

	Math Chick:	Oct 16th, 2008 at 21:32 GMT		0 points
	What about Shaq for Mr. O'Neal? I think that usually works on other Sporcle quizzes. Good quiz that I totally bombed on.

	Matt8204:	Oct 16th, 2008 at 22:24 GMT		1 point
	I didn't say it was boring. Personally, I don't think any sport is boring. They all have their own little charms and quirks that make them fun. I just said it wasn't the same. You could say the same thing for any sport. I don't like baseball as much as I did before the 1994 strike. Something changed. Maybe it just means more to you when you're a kid.

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	jesus:	Oct 18th, 2008 at 12:06 GMT		-3 points
	What about the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Portugal, The Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, Greece, Russia, Turkey, Brazil, Argentina, Japan (I think you will find that football is huge in Japan), Mexico, China, Australiala, South Korea, Belgium, Switzerland, Croatia, Serbia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Czech Republic, Ireland, South Africa, Denmark, Chile and Egypt. Football is massive in all these countries and i think you would agree that the USA and Canada are no more civilised than any of these countries.

	jesus:	Oct 18th, 2008 at 12:24 GMT		-3 points
	Also, I don't know how you can call it a poor mans games. There are several billionaire owners in England, Italy, Russia, etc. In fact Manchester City have just been bought by the Abu Dhabi group who are worth over £600 billion. And many rich American owners are coming over to try and buy succesful clubs such as Liverpool, Manchester United and Aston Villa because they see it as the biggest sports brand in the world and recognise the potential English football is beginning to fulfill in China, South East Asia, Japan, and even in Los Angeles.

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	jesus:	Oct 18th, 2008 at 13:39 GMT		-2 points
	Football is actually the biggest growing sport in both Russia and Japan. Hence, Japan holding the world cup a few years back and Russia getting to the semi finals of the european championships this summer. Also, the USA does have a long history of playing football. They got to the semi finals in the first world cup in 1930. However, since then they realised that in order to be best in the world at a sport maybe they should only concentrate their resources on sports which are only played in USA and a few other minor countries. And also it is a bit unfair to say that Ukraine, Croatia, Romania, Serbia and Bulgaria cannot be considered civilised because they are not as rich as the USA. Thats just a typical comment from an ignorant American. Way to live up to national stereotypes.

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	jesus:	Oct 18th, 2008 at 15:29 GMT		-4 points
	I'm sorry but you have a very warped view of the world if you think that all other countries on earth strive to be like America. No one wants to be a greeedy war-mongering imperialistic minded country in the same vain as America is. That is, again, another ignorant American view that everyone wants to copy them in every way. And when you are talking about so called 'wealthier' nations not playing football. There is just as much options to play sport in France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Spain, Italy. All of these countries are very rich and in fact can be considered to have a more stable economy than the current financial crisis mainly affecting America caused by American banks. Also, i don't know why you think you need much more money to play basketball than you do football. Both sports can be played with just a ball. And, in addition, many people in wealthy western countries do spend money on facilities and equipment in order to play football. For example money is needed for kit, goalposts, shinpads, goalie gloves, boots, astroturf football.

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	jesus:	Oct 19th, 2008 at 09:37 GMT		-2 points
	1. I do realise that it is a global credit crisis. However, it was caused by American banks lending unpayable mortgages to people and then wanting the people to pay them back at 100% interest rates which they obviously could not afford. This in turn has affected other nations because it only takes one large economy to fall to cause all the others to fall. 2. I think i can justify something as quality when it is popular. Over 1 billion people watch the world cup every four years which is way more than any other sporting tournament in the world including the olympics. I think that with that amount of people behind me i can say it is a quality sport. And i am sure if you did ask any person in the world (that means not just America) whether Football was better than American Football or Basketball I am sure that most of them would prefer football any day of the week. You say baseball is growing in parts of Asia and is big in Latin America but i can safely say that football is much more revered in those parts of the world than football. 3. This is to everyone on this site. Stop thinking that everyone loves America. They don't. Stop being so naive and insular. Bush is hated and everyone else in the world looks on in bemusement at almost anything going on over there.

	Tick:	Oct 19th, 2008 at 10:28 GMT		-3 points
	If you're going to use popularity to fight your argument about soccer, I can use it about America. How come we have terrible immigration issues and are foreign population is growing by the second if everyone thinks we are a "greedy war-monerging imperialistic minded country"? Seems to me that everyone wants to come over here, just like everyone wants to watch soccer too, so that must make us the most popular right? Oh, and you need a little more then a ball to play basketball. It's called a hoop. I never said that wealthier nations didn't play soccer, I just said that in nations with more sporting options, soccer is not as popular. And you are on drugs if you don't think countries like Japan and China care more about baseball then soccer. One last thing: I know that everybody outside of the U.S. basically hates us, but it's commical at how jealous everyone is of us.

	jesus:	Oct 19th, 2008 at 13:29 GMT		-4 points
	On your basis you need more than a ball to play football. You need a goal as well. Also, football is way bigger in China than Baseball. Do your research. Also, I do not understand your statement that you keep saying that countries with more sporting options do not play football as the whole of Europe has a much wider variety of sports than America yet football is still the most popular and the most loved. Finally, no one is jealous of America. You really need to get out of your country if you want to know how other people view your country. And also most of the people who are emigrating to USA usually do so coming out of relative poverty and/or persecution so its not really a surprise that they want to escape to USA. The same is true over here in Europe where there is just as much immigrants from Africa or Asia.

	Iron man:	Oct 19th, 2008 at 14:05 GMT		10 points
	Having viewed this comment from afar for a couple of days I do have to agree with :. Football is easily the most loved sport in the world otherwise 3.5 billion people round the world wouldn't play or watch it compared to only 400 million who play or watch basketball. The viewing figures for the last world cup were about 60billion people alltogether which is way more than the olympics and swamps it even more considering there is a wider amount on show for the olympics. This shows that not only is is popular but it is loved as it is a hobby and people wouldn't compete if they didn't like it. Also, your comment on American immigration is flawed because football is a hobby whereas illegally entering a country isn't. The two are incomparable. One is for enjoyment, the other is for necessity.

	Ben 10:	Oct 19th, 2008 at 15:07 GMT		1 point
	I have a question for you Tick? Why do you think everyone in the world wants to be American when quite clearly nobody does and why are you so up your own arse that it's not just your nose thats brown but your whole face? Nobody wants to be a part of a country that for the last eight years has had a president with the same I.Q as horse poo. I am from Australia and fully agree with ":". You only dislike football because you're rubbish at it and decided to invent a sport just so you could be the best at it that nobody actually cares anything about. Also you left yourself open to people calling you Tick the Dick didn't you?

	Tick:	Oct 19th, 2008 at 17:22 GMT		-4 points
	Fine. I admit it. You win. Football is the best sport and the most popular and I hate America. We are all ignoramusus.

	Tick:	Oct 19th, 2008 at 17:23 GMT		-2 points
	p.s Basketball is boring

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	ku_sucks:	Oct 20th, 2008 at 23:28 GMT		7 points
	break it up, kids. soccer is cool and america doesn't totally suck, the end.

	magister:	Oct 24th, 2008 at 00:39 GMT		2 points
	As a soccer fan myself, I'm just impressed that we found something that : actually seems to care about. These soccer elements of these posts (which attention deficit disorder has prevented me from reading fully) are intelligent and devoid of personal attacks (for the most part.) Well done : , I may have underestimated you. And, in response to Tick, I shall badly quote the film Dogma: "Fire and brimstone is the single most taxing activity in the world. Except soccer."

	jesus:	Oct 24th, 2008 at 12:18 GMT		-4 points
	Geez. Thanks Magister. Maybe this could be the start of a whole new era for me. The turning over of a new leaf if you will. Though only one tiny problem. You should try and call it football rather than s****r. It is the English who invented the game and in English it is called football.

	magister:	Oct 24th, 2008 at 17:31 GMT		4 points
	I understand that. It's merely for my benefit, because I am American and deal mainly with Americans. It's the same reason I call a bathroom a bathroom and spell color without a u.

	let_it_go:	Mar 8th, 2009 at 04:48 GMT		-1 points
	Was anyone else aware that Amar'e and Damon spelled it differently?

	omnipotent1:	Aug 15th, 2009 at 04:22 GMT		-1 points
	Can't even escape the debate about soccer on a trivia web site. But I'll settle the debate: hockey is the best sport in the world.