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Main article: 2011 in basketball- February 20: 2011 NBA All-Star Game at Staples Center, Los Angeles.
- West 148 beat 143 East
- May 8: Euroleague
- Panathinaikos beats Maccabi Tel Aviv 78–70 and wins its sixth title in Barcelona. Dimitris Diamantidis was named MVP.
- June 2–16: 2011 NBA Finals
- The Western Conference champion Dallas Mavericks defeated the Eastern Conference champion Miami Heat, 4–2, to win their first NBA title. German player Dirk Nowitzki was named Finals MVP.
- August 30 – September 11 – FIBA Americas Championship 2011 in Mar del Plata, Argentina
- Second title for 1 ! Argentina. 2 ! Brazil and 3 ! Dominican Republic. MVP: Luis Scola (ARG)
- September 3–18 – EuroBasket 2011 in Lithuania
- Second title for 1 ! Spain. 2 ! France and 3 ! Russia. MVP: Juan Carlos Navarro (ESP)
- October 2–7: 2011 WNBA Finals
- The Western Conference champion Minnesota Lynx defeated the Eastern Conference champion Atlanta Dream, 3–0, to win their first WNBA title. Seimone Augustus was named Finals MVP.
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“Perhaps basketball and poetry have just a few things in common, but the most important is the possibility of transcendence. The opposite is labor. In writing, every writer knows when he or she is laboring to achieve an effect. You want to get from here to there, but find yourself willing it, forcing it. The equivalent in basketball is aiming your shot, a kind of strained and usually ineffective purposefulness. What you want is to be in some kind of flow, each next moment a discovery.”
—Stephen Dunn (b. 1939)