2006-07 NBA season
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The 2006-07 NBA season is the 61st season of the National Basketball Association. The regular season began on October 31, 2006 and will run through April 18, 2007. The league will field 30 teams, each playing an 82 game regular season schedule. The top 8 teams from each conference will reach the NBA Playoffs that follow the regular season, beginning on April 21, 2007, and continue through the NBA Finals in June.
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[edit] Notable occurrences
- The All-Star Game was played on February 18, 2007, at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas, Nevada, the first time the event was held in a non-NBA city. The West defeated the East 153-132, with Lakers star gaurd Kobe Bryant winning the game's MVP award.
- In the first quarter of the 2007 NBA All-Star Game, Jermaine O'neal on the East scored on his own net. (He tipped it in accidentally.)
- For the second straight year, the Hornets will play a split home schedule between New Orleans, Louisiana and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, due to Hurricane Katrina.
- A new design for the official NBA game ball was revealed on June 28, 2006, the same day of the NBA Draft. Amidst complaints by players and coaches, the league switched back to the previous ball on January 1, 2007. [1]
- The Phoenix Suns defeated the New Jersey Nets 161-157 on December 7, 2006, in the fourth highest-scoring game in NBA history. [2]
- The Denver Nuggets and the New York Knicks entered into a brawl near the end of a December 16 match up. All ten players on the court at the time, including Nuggets star Carmelo Anthony (the league's leading scorer at the time), were ejected. Seven players were suspended as a result of the incident, the most notable of which was Carmelo Anthony's 15 game suspension.
- After 11 seasons with the Philadelphia 76ers, all-star guard Allen Iverson was traded to the Denver Nuggets. [3]
- After the 2006 Playoff controversy, the format of team seeds changed. Each division winner may be seeded no lower then 4th, but the top non-division-winning playoff team may seed higher than a divisional champ if they have a better win-loss record. Home court advantage is given to the team with the better record, regardless of seeding.
- The Phoenix Suns and the Dallas Mavericks notched multiple 12+ game win-streaks during the course of the regular season. The Suns rattled of streaks of 15 and 17 games straight (tied for 5th longest in NBA history), while the Mavericks' streaks stretched to 12, 13, and 17 games straight. The San Antonio Spurs joined these two teams by notching a 13 game winning streak.
- Kobe Bryant notched four consecutive 50+ point games against the Portland Trail Blazers, Minnesota Timberwolves, Memphis Grizzlies and New Orleans Hornets. He joins Wilt Chamberlain as the second player to have four straight 50+ games in a single season. [4] He is also the 2nd player to have two 60-point games in two successive seasons, also joining Wilt Chamberlain.
[edit] Team standings
| Clinched division championship Conference topnotcher boldfaced |
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[edit] By division
Standings as of April 1, 2007.
Current 2007 NBA Playoffs seeds in parentheses
W = Wins, L = Losses, PCT = Winning Percentage, GB = Games behind
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Standings as of April 1, 2007.
W = Wins, L = Losses, PCT = Winning Percentage, GB = Games behind, * = division leader
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[edit] 2006-07 NBA stats leaders
| Category | Player | Team | Stat |
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| Points per game | Kobe Bryant | Los Angeles Lakers | 31.2 |
| Rebounds per game | Kevin Garnett | Minnesota Timberwolves | 12.8 |
| Assists per game | Steve Nash | Phoenix Suns | 11.5 |
| Steals per game | Ron Artest | Sacramento Kings | 2.2 |
| Blocks per game | Marcus Camby | Denver Nuggets | 3.1 |
| Field goal percentage | Tyson Chandler | New Orleans/Oklahoma City Hornets | 62.5% |
| Free throw percentage | Kyle Korver | Philadelphia 76ers | 92.0% |
| Three-point field goal percentage | Jason Kapono | Miami Heat | 51.3% |
| Turnovers per game | Steve Nash | Phoenix Suns | 3.9 |
[edit] See also
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- Official 2006-07 season schedules @ NBA.com
- http://www.nba.com/features/racetothemvp_mailbag_070309.html0 @ NBA.com
- http://www.democratandchronicle.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070308/SPORTS0101/703080346/-1/COLUMNS
| Preceded by 2005-06 NBA season |
NBA seasons 2006-07 |
Succeeded by 2007-08 NBA season |
