During the 2013-14 season, Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson were nicknamed the "Splash Brothers" en route to setting the NBA record for combined three-pointers in a season with 484, a record they broke the following season (525) and again in the 2015-16 season (678).

In his first professional game, James recorded 25 points against the Sacramento Kings, setting an NBA record for most points scored by a prep-to-pro player in his debut outing.

Born in Würzburg, Germany, Nowitzki is the highest-scoring foreign-born player in NBA-history.

At 5 ft 3 in, point guard Muggsy Bogues was the shortest player in NBA history. While playing for the Washington Bullets, he was teammates with Manute Bol who was one of the tallest players in NBA history, standing at almost 7 ft 7 in.

Clyde "The Glide" Drexler was famed for his speed and athleticism on the court and his easygoing and quiet demeanor off the court.

The first recorded game between two college teams occurred on February 9, 1895, when Hamline University faced Minnesota A&M. The game was played under rules allowing nine players per side.

Larry Brown is the only coach in basketball history to win both an NCAA national championship (Kansas, 1988) and an NBA title (Pistons, 2004).

Michael Jordan wore the number 45 when he first returned to the NBA because his number 23 had already been retired by the Bulls. Also, his older brother wore 45 in high school, and Jordan wore 45 during his minor league baseball career with the Birmingham Barons.

The game of basketball was invented by Dr. James Naismith, a Canadian-American physician, in December 1891 in Springfield, Massachusetts to condition young athletes during cold months. It consisted of peach baskets and a soccer style ball. Naismith lived to see basketball adopted as an Olympic demonstration sport in 1904 and as an official event at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin.

The Detroit Pistons were founded in Fort Wayne, Indiana as the Fort Wayne (Zollner) Pistons in 1941, a member of the National Basketball League.