Championships
International
- 2006 FIBA World Championship:
- Gold medal:
Spain - Silver medal:
Greece - Bronze medal:
USA - MVP: Pau Gasol, Spain
- All-tournament team:
- Pau Gasol
- Carmelo Anthony (USA)
- Jorge Garbajosa (Spain)
Manu Ginóbili (Argentina)- Theodoros Papaloukas (Greece)
- Gold medal:
- 2006 FIBA World Championship for Women
- Gold medal:
Australia - Silver medal:
Russia - Bronze medal: USA
- MVP: Penny Taylor, Australia
- Gold medal:
- Basketball at the 2006 Asian Games
- Men's tournament:
- Women's tournament:
- Gold medal:
China - Silver medal:
Chinese Taipei - Bronze medal:
Japan
- Gold medal:
Professional
Men
NBA season and playoffs:
- EuroLeague (Europe-wide):
- CSKA Moscow defeated Maccabi Tel Aviv 73-69 in the final
Croatian League:
French League:
German Bundesliga:
- RheinEnergie Köln defeated Alba Berlin 3-1 in the best-of-five finals
- Greek League:
- Panathinaikos defeated Olympiakos 3-0 in the best-of-five finals
Iranian Super League, 2005–06 season:
- Saba Battery defeat Petrochimi 3–0 in the best-of-five final.
Israel Premier League:
- Maccabi Tel Aviv defeated Hapoel Jerusalem 96-66 in the one-off final (the first such final in Israel history)
Italian Serie A:
- Benetton Treviso defeated Climamio Bologna 3-1 in the best-of-five finals
Lithuanian LKL:
- Lietuvos Rytas defeated Žalgiris 4-0 in the best-of-seven finals
Philippine Basketball Association 2005–06 season:
- Red Bull Barako over the Purefoods Chunkee Giants 4-2 in the Fiesta Conference Finals. Finals MVP: Lordy Tugade
- Purefoods Chunkee Giants over Red Bull Barako 4-2 in the Philippine Cup Finals. Finals MVP: Marc Pingris
Polish League:
- Prokom Trefl Sopot over Anwil Włocławek 4-1 in the best-of-seven finals
- Russian Super League:
- CSKA Moscow over Khimki 3-0 in the best-of-five finals
Serbia and Montenegro Super League:
- Spanish ACB:
- Unicaja Málaga over TAU Cerámica 3-0 in the best-of-five finals
Turkish Basketball League:
- Ülkerspor over Efes Pilsen 4-0 in the best-of-seven finals. Only three matches were actually played; under Turkish rules, Ülker was granted a 1-0 lead by virtue of its regular-season sweep of Efes.
British Basketball League:
- Newcastle Eagles defeated Scottish Rocks 83-68 in the one-off final
Adriatic League:
Women
College
- Men
- NCAA
- Division I: Florida 73, UCLA 57
- National Invitation Tournament: South Carolina 76, Michigan 64
- Division II: Winona State 73, Virginia Union 61
- Division III: Virginia Wesleyan 59, Wittenberg 56
- NAIA
- NAIA Division I: Texas Wesleyan 67, Oklahoma City 65
- NAIA Division II: College of the Ozarks (Mo.) 74, Huntington (Ind.) 56
- NJCAA
- Division I: Arkansas-Ft. Smith 68, Tallahassee CC (FL) 59
- Division II: Cecil CC 9 (MD) 64, Kirkwood CC (IA) 63
- Division III: North Lake College (TX) 78, Gloucester County College (N.J.) 65
- UAAP Men's: University of Santo Tomas over Ateneo de Manila University, 2 games to 1
- NCAA (Philippines) Seniors': San Beda College over Philippine Christian University, 2 games to 1
- Women
- NCAA
- Division I: Maryland 78, Duke 75 OT
- WNIT: Kansas State 77, Marquette 65
- Division II: Grand Valley State 58, American International 52
- Division III Hope 69, Southern Maine 56
- NAIA
- NAIA Division I: Union (TN) 79, Lubbock Christian (TX) 62
- NAIA Division II Hastings (Neb.) 58, College of the Ozarks (Mo.) 39
- NJCAA[1]
- Division I: Monroe CC (Rochester, New York) 76, Odessa College (TX) 64
- Division II: Illinois Central College 71, Kirkwood CC (IA) 54
- Division III: Monroe College (Bronx, New York) 100, Mohawk Valley CC (NY) 70
- UAAP Women's: University of Santo Tomas over Far Eastern University, 2 games to 1
Prep
- USA Today Boys Basketball Ranking #1: Lawrence North High School, Indianapolis, Indiana
- USA Today Girls Basketball Ranking #1: Christ the King, Queens, New York
- NCAA (Philippines) Juniors: San Sebastian Recoletos High School over Philippine Christian University Union High School, 2 games to 0
- UAAP Juniors: Ateneo de Manila High School over Far Eastern University-Nicanor Reyes Educational Foundation, 2 games to 1
