The season was marked by the 30th anniversary of the absorption of four American Basketball Association members into the league: The Indiana Pacers, the New Jersey Nets, the Denver Nuggets and the San Antonio Spurs all joined in 1976. This season marked the first under the NBA's new Collective Bargaining Agreement, agreed upon by the owners and the player union on June 21. Due to the split, the team was officially referred to as the New Orleans/Oklahoma City Hornets. Due to the damages caused by Hurricane Katrina, the New Orleans Hornets played 36 regular season games in the Ford Center in Oklahoma City, 1 game in the Lloyd Noble Center in Norman, Oklahoma, 1 game at LSU's Pete Maravich Assembly Center, and just 3 games at the New Orleans Arena in New Orleans in March. This season marked the first season for the Charlotte Bobcats in their new arena in downtown Charlotte. LeBron James of the Cleveland Cavaliers won the game's MVP honors the youngest ever in All-Star Game history at 21 years, and 51 days old. 
The All-Star Game was played on February 19, 2006, at the Toyota Center in Houston with the East beating the West 122–120.They are also the first of the four (two?) 1988/89 expansion franchises to win a championship. They become the third franchise (joining the 1969 Boston Celtics and 1977 Portland Trail Blazers, later joined by the 2016 Cleveland Cavaliers and 2021 Milwaukee Bucks) to win the NBA Finals after losing the first two games. The Miami Heat win their first NBA championship in franchise history.
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A new league dress code was put into effect at the beginning of the year by commissioner David Stern.The Miami Heat defeated the Dallas Mavericks in the NBA Finals, four games to two to win their first NBA championship. The 2005–06 NBA season was the 60th season of the National Basketball Association.
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