October 18
From Hoopedia
- 1896 - (Right) Nat Holman, star of the Original Celtics and coach of the national champion CCNY Beavers, is born in New York City.
- 1959 - The Soviet Union Women's team wins their first FIBA World Championship for Women. South Korea is the only country outside the Soviet Bloc to send a team.
- 1974 - Chicago Bulls center Nate Thurmond, in his first game with the Bulls, recorded the NBA’s first quadruple-double, with 22 points, 14 rebounds, 13 assists and 12 blocks in the Bulls’ 120-115 overtime win over the Atlanta Hawks at Chicago Stadium. Only Alvin Robertson, Hakeem Olajuwon and David Robinson have recorded quadruple-doubles in an NBA game.
- 1989 - A crowd of 35,156, the largest ever to attend an NBA preseason game, turns out at the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome for the debut of the Minnesota Timberwolves.
- 1993 - NBA Commissioner David J. Stern and FIBA Secretary General Boris Stankovic jointly announce that the Most Valuable Player award for the McDonald's Championship would be named the Drazen Petrovic Trophy, honoring the late New Jersey Nets Star killed in a car accident in Germany on June 7, 1993.
- 1997 - Michael Jordan of the Chicago Bulls is awarded the Drazen Petrovic Trophy for being named MVP of the 1997 McDonald's Championship in Paris.
