Quick quiz

1. Which player-turned-coach played in an All-Star Game as a rookie and never again played in one: a) Maurice Cheeks b) Byron Scott c) Bill Cartwright d) Jerry Sloan e) Rudy Tomjanovich f) Doug Collins

2. Only two players in NBA history have averaged at least 25 points in 11 consecutive seasons. Name them.

3. Where was Dallas Mavericks guard Steve Nash born, and where was he raised? a) Italy; California b) Germany; Quebec c) South America; Arizona d) Mexico; New York e) South Africa; British Columbia

4. Tim Duncan finished second in rebounding (12.7 rpg) and fled for third with Alonzo Mourning in blocks (2.48). Was he on the NBA's All-Defensive First Team or Second Team?

5. Name the team that hasn't won 2,000 games: a) 76ers b) Kings c) Pistons d) Lakers e) Warriors f) Celtics g) Knicks h) Hawks

6. Which two teams beat every other NBA team in 2001-027

7. How many players have played in the NBA at age 40, and who was the last player to do so? (No Dikembe Mutombo jokes, please.)

8. The longest consecutive games-played streak entering the 2002-03 season was 417. Who owns it: a) Michael Finley b) Paul Pierce c) Howard Eisley d) Shandon Anderson e) Ron Mercer

9. Name the last college team to win an NCAA title and fail to have one player taken in the first round of an NBA draft: a) Loyola (1963 champions) b) UCLA (1972) c) North Carolina State (1983) d) Indiana (1987) e) Kansas (1988)

10. How many months of the NBA's six-month season did a Memphis Grizzlies or Golden State Warriors player not win the Western Conference Rookie of the Month Award?

Quick Quiz Answers

1. c). Chicago Bulls coach Bill Cartwright played in the All-Star Game as a New York Knicks rookie in 1980 and never again appeared in one.

2. Jerry West and Karl Malone.

3. e) Mavs guard Steve Nash was born in Johannesburg, South Africa and raised in Victoria, British Columbia.

4. Tim Duncan did not make either of the NBA's All-Defensive Teams. Good sense prevailed here at BASKETBALL DIGEST; we put him on our All-Defensive First Team.

5. b) In spite of their 53 NBA seasons, the Rochester Royals/Cincinnati Royals/ Kansas City-Omaha Kings/Sacramento Kings have not yet won 2,000 games.

6. The Dallas Mavericks and Portland Trail Blazers were the only two NBA teams to defeat every other team in the league at least once in 2001-02.

7. Ten players have played in the NBA at age 40. The latest was the Utah Jazz's John Stockton in 2001-02.

8. Shandon Anderson of the Knicks played in 417 straight games, the NBA's longest ironman streak entering 2002-03.

9. d). Indiana's 1987 NCAA champs were the last college team to win a title and fail to have a player taken in the first round of an NBA draft.

10. Zero. The Memphis Grizzlies' Pau Gasol won three Western Conference Rookie of the Month Awards, and Grizzly Shane Battier and Golden State Warriors Jason Richardson and Gilbert Arenas won one apiece.

Photo: Mike Bratz was the last player to wear No. 23 for the Bulls before Michael Jordan.