The following are the basketball events of the year 2006 throughout the world.
Tournaments include international (FIBA), professional (club) and amateur and collegiate levels.
Championships
International
Australia women's national basketball team , celebrating after being awarded the gold medals for winning the 2006 FIBA World Championship for Women in basketball
Professional
Men
Women
College
Hope College women's team raises 2006 NCAA Division III championship trophy.
Prep
Awards and honors
Professional
Collegiate
Combined
Men
Women
John R. Wooden Award : Seimone Augustus , LSU
Naismith College Player of the Year : Seimone Augustus , LSU
Naismith College Coach of the Year : Sylvia Hatchell , North Carolina
Wade Trophy : Seimone Augustus , LSU
Frances Pomeroy Naismith Award : Megan Duffy , Notre Dame
Associated Press Women's College Basketball Player of the Year : Seimone Augustus , LSU
NCAA basketball tournament Most Outstanding Player : Laura Harper , Maryland
Basketball Academic All-America Team : Lindsay Shearer , Kent State
Carol Eckman Award : Gail Goestenkors , Duke
USBWA National Freshman of the Year : Courtney Paris , Oklahoma
Associated Press College Basketball Coach of the Year : Sylvia Hatchell , North Carolina
List of Senior CLASS Award women's basketball winners : Seimone Augustus , LSU
Nancy Lieberman Award : Ivory Latta , North Carolina
Naismith Outstanding Contribution to Basketball : Val Ackerman
Events
Movies
Deaths
February 11 — Harry Vines , American wheelchair basketball coach (born 1938)
March 17 — Ray Meyer , American Hall of Fame coach of the DePaul University men's team (born 1913)
April 6 — Maggie Dixon , women's coach at Army (born 1977)
April 6 — Price Brookfield , American NBA player (born 1920)
April 19 — Gene Rosenthal , American NBL player (Pittsburgh Pirates ) (born 1914)
May 6 — Bob Dro , national champion at Indiana and Indianapolis Kautskys player (born 1918)
May 9 — Grady Wallace , All-American and national scoring champion at South Carolina
May 18 — Irving Meretsky , Canadian Olympic silver medalist (1936 ) (born 1912)
July 3 — Dick Dickey , NBA player and All-American at NC State (born 1926)
July 4 — Bobby Joe Mason , Harlem Globetrotters player and college All-American at Bradley (born 1936)
July 21 — Alexander Petrenko , Russian player (BC Khimki ) (born 1976)
August 18 — Dick Hickox , American college All-American (Miami Hurricanes ) (born 1938)
September 7 — Ozell Jones , American NBA player (San Antonio Spurs , Los Angeles Clippers ) (born 1960)
October 5 — Cleveland Buckner , American NBA player (New York Knicks ) (born 1938)
October 5 — George King , American NBA player (Syracuse Nationals , Cincinnati Royals ) and college coach (West Virginia , Purdue ) (born 1928)
October 25 — Johnny Hoekstra , American NBL player (Kankakee Gallagher Trojans) (born 1917)
October 28 — Arnold "Red" Auerbach , Hall of Fame coach and president of the Boston Celtics (born 1917)
November 9 — Mikhail Semyonov , Russian (Soviet) Olympic Silver medalist (1956 , 1960 ) (born 1933)
November 29 — Gary Alcorn , American NBA player (Detroit Pistons , Los Angeles Lakers ) (born 1936)
December 12 — Paul Arizin , Hall of Famer for the Philadelphia Warriors who twice led the NBA in scoring (born 1928)
December 13 — Lamar Hunt , original ownership partner of the Chicago Bulls (born 1932)
December 21 — Warren Hair , American NBL player (Kankakee Gallagher Trojans) (born 1918)
December 29 — Charlie Tyra , All-American college (Louisville ) and NBA player (New York Knicks , Chicago Packers ) (born 1935)
See also
References
External links
Media related to 2006 in basketball at Wikimedia Commons