The 2014–15 NBA season was the 69th season of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
 The NBA draft took place on June 26, 2014, at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, where Andrew Wiggins was selected first overall.
 The regular season began on Tuesday, October 28, 2014, when the defending NBA champions San Antonio Spurs hosted the first game against the Dallas Mavericks.
 Christmas games were played on Thursday, December 25, 2014.
 The 2015 NBA All-Star Game was played on Sunday, February 15, 2015, at Madison Square Garden in New York City, with the West defeating the East 163-158.
 Oklahoma City's Russell Westbrook won the NBA All-Star Game Most Valuable Player Award.
 The regular season ended on Wednesday April 15, 2015 and the playoffs began on Saturday, April 18, 2015 and ended with the 2015 NBA Finals on June 16, 2015, after the Golden State Warriors defeated the Cleveland Cavaliers in six games to win their fourth NBA title.
Tamika Devonne Catchings Smith (born July 21, 1979) is an American retired professional basketball player who played her entire 15-year career for the Indiana Fever of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA).
 Catchings has won a WNBA championship (2012), WNBA Most Valuable Player Award (2011), WNBA Finals MVP Award (2012), five WNBA Defensive Player of the Year Awards (2005, 2006, 2009, 2010, 2012), four Olympic gold medals (2004, 2008, 2012, 2016), and the WNBA Rookie of the Year Award (2002).
 She has also been selected to ten WNBA All-Star teams, 12 All-WNBA teams, 12 All-Defensive teams and led the league in steals eight times.
 She is one of 9 women to win an Olympic Gold Medal, an NCAA Championship, and a WNBA Championship.
 In 2011, Catchings was voted in by fans as one of the WNBA's Top 15 Players of All Time.
Christopher Emmanuel Paul (born May 6, 1985) is an American professional basketball player for the Houston Rockets of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
 He has won the NBA Rookie of the Year Award, an NBA All-Star Game Most Valuable Player Award, two Olympic gold medals, and led the NBA in assists four times and steals six times.
 He has also been selected to nine NBA All-Star teams, eight All-NBA teams, and nine NBA All-Defensive teams.
Jerry Ray Lucas (born March 30, 1940) is an American former basketball player and memory education expert.
 He was a nationally-awarded high school player, national college star at Ohio State, and 1960 gold medal Olympian and international player before starring as a professional player in the National Basketball Association (NBA).
 As a collegian, Lucas led the Ohio State Buckeyes to the 1960 college national championship and three straight NCAA finals.
 He remains today the only three-time Big Ten Player of the Year, and was also twice named NCAA Player of the Year.
 As a professional, Lucas was named All-NBA First Team three times, a NBA All-Star seven times, was 1964 NBA Rookie of the Year, and was named Most Valuable Player of the 1965 NBA All-Star Game among other honors and awards.
 He was inducted to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1980.
The 1951 NBA All-Star Game was an exhibition basketball game played on March 2, 1951, at Boston Garden in Boston, Massachusetts, home of the Boston Celtics.
 The game was the first edition of the National Basketball Association (NBA) All-Star Game and was played during the 1950–51 NBA season.
 The idea of holding an All-Star Game was conceived during a meeting between NBA President Maurice Podoloff, NBA publicity director Haskell Cohen and Boston Celtics owner Walter A. Brown.
 At that time, the basketball world had just been stunned by the college basketball point-shaving scandal.
 In order to regain public attention to the league, Cohen suggested the league to host an exhibition game featuring the league's best players, similar to the Major League Baseball's All-Star Game.
 Although most people, including Podoloff, were pessimistic about the idea, Brown remained confident that it would be a success.
 He even offered to host the game and to cover all the expenses or potential losses incurred from the game.
 The Eastern All-Stars team defeated the Western All-Stars team 111–94.
 Boston Celtics' Ed Macauley was named as the first NBA All-Star Game Most Valuable Player Award.
 The game became a success, drawing an attendance of 10,094, much higher than that season's average attendance of 3,500.
LeBron Raymone James ( ; born December 30, 1984) is an American professional basketball player for the Cleveland Cavaliers of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
 James has won three NBA championships, four NBA Most Valuable Player Awards, three NBA Finals MVP Awards, two Olympic gold medals, an NBA scoring title, and the NBA Rookie of the Year Award.
 He has also been selected to 13 NBA All-Star teams, 13 All-NBA teams, and six All-Defensive teams, is the Cavaliers' all-time leading scorer, and is the NBA career playoff scoring leader.
The Nike Hoop Summit is an international men's basketball all-star game sponsored by Nike, held once a year since 1995, which features the USA Basketball Men's Junior Select Team against a World Select Team of international players.
 The players demonstrate their skills and hope to attract attention from either NBA scouts or colleges.
 A number of current NBA players have participated in this event in the past, including Kevin Garnett, Derrick Rose, Kevin Durant, also John Wall for the U.S.A. team, and Dirk Nowitzki, Tony Parker, Nicolas Batum, Serge Ibaka, Enes Kanter, and Patrick Mills for the World Select team.
 In the 2010 edition of the event, Enes Kanter scored 34 points and surpassed the event's record of 33 points set by Dirk Nowitzki in 1998.
 Bismack Biyombo recorded the first triple-double in Hoop Summit history in 2011 with 12 points, 11 rebounds, and 10 blocks.
 In 2012, Shabazz Muhammad scored 35 points to break Enes Kanter's Hoop Summit scoring record.
Diana Lorena Taurasi (born June 11, 1982) is an American professional basketball player for the Phoenix Mercury of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) and UMMC Ekaterinburg of Russia.
 Taurasi has won three WNBA championships (2007, 2009, 2014), WNBA Most Valuable Player Award (2009), two WNBA Finals MVP Awards (2009, 2014), four Olympic gold medals, (2004, 2008, 2012, 2016), five scoring titles (2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011), and the WNBA Rookie of the Year Award (2004).
 She has also been selected to seven WNBA All-Star teams and nine All-WNBA teams.
 She is one of 9 women to win an Olympic Gold Medal, an NCAA Championship, and a WNBA Championship.
 In 2011, she was voted in by fans as one of the WNBA's Top 15 Players of All Time.
 On June 18, 2017, Taurasi became the WNBA all-time leading scorer with 7,494 points.
Kevin Wayne Durant (born September 29, 1988) is an American professional basketball player for the Golden State Warriors of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
 He has won an NBA championship, an NBA Most Valuable Player Award, the Bill Russell NBA Finals Most Valuable Player Award, the NBA All-Star Game Most Valuable Player Award, four NBA scoring titles, the NBA Rookie of the Year Award, and two Olympic gold medals.
 Durant has also been selected to seven All-NBA teams and eight NBA All-Star teams.
Wardell Stephen Curry II (born March 14, 1988) is an American professional basketball player for the Golden State Warriors of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
 Many players and analysts have called him the greatest shooter in NBA history.
 In 2014–15, Curry won the NBA Most Valuable Player Award and led the Warriors to their first championship since 1975.
 The following season, he became the first player in NBA history to be elected MVP by a unanimous vote and to lead the league in scoring while shooting above 50–40–90.
 That same year, the Warriors broke the record for the most wins in an NBA season.
 Curry helped the Warriors return to the NBA Finals for a third straight year in 2017, where he won his second NBA championship.

Question: How many times has a basketball player who won an NBA championship, an NBA Most Valuable Player Award, the Bill Russell NBA Finals Most Valuable Player Award, the NBA All-Star Game Most Valuable Player Award, four NBA scoring titles, the NBA Rookie of the Year Award, and two Olympic gold medals, participate in the competition held once a year since 1995? 
Answer: eight