Üllar Kerde (born April 1, 1954) is an Estonian basketball coach.
 Currently he is the coach of BC Dynamo Moscow.
 He has also been the coach of Estonia national basketball team leading it to the EuroBasket 2001 which Estonia finished 14th.
Ferenc Németh (born 1919) was a Hungarian basketball player.
 Playing at center, he helped lead the Hungarian national team to a bronze medal at EuroBasket 1946, earning MVP honours in the process.
 Németh averaged 11.8 points per game in the tournament.
 He was named one of FIBA's 50 Greatest Players in 1991.
Qualification for the 2001 FIBA European Championship, commonly called FIBA EuroBasket 2001 took place between 18 May 1998 and 27 January 2001.
 A total of eight teams qualified for the tournament.
 The top eight teams from EuroBasket 1999 earned direct qualification.
The Des Moines Dragons were a minor league basketball team in the International Basketball Association.
 They were located in Des Moines, Iowa, and played at the Iowa Veterans Memorial Auditorium.
 The Dragons were owned by Paul Miller, and Dick Giesen.
 The Des Moines Dragons were the International Basketball Association champions in 2000 and the runner-up in 2001 to the Dakota Wizards.
 They played in the IBA from the 1997-1998 season until the end of the 2000-2001 season.
 The Dragons were coached by Glenn Duhon from 1997 through 2000 and Michael Born from 2000 through 2001.
 The Dragons played their home games at Veterans Auditorium from 1997 through 2001.
 In 2000 Lonnie Cooper received the IBA Playoffs MVP.
 Lonnie Cooper of the Dragons received the 2001 IBA MVP as well as the IBA Finals MVP award.
 Also in 2001 Michael Born was named the Coach of the year in the IBA along with David Joerger of the Dakota Wizards.
 The Dragons were the IBA organization of the year in all four years of their existence.
The 2001 FIBA European Championship, commonly called FIBA EuroBasket 2001, was the 32nd FIBA EuroBasket regional basketball championship held by FIBA Europe, which also served as Europe qualifier for the 2002 FIBA World Championship, giving a berth to the top four (or five, depending on Yugoslavia reaching one of the top four places) teams in the final standings.
 It was held in Turkey between 31 August and 9 September 2001.
 Sixteen national teams entered the event under the auspices of FIBA Europe, the sport's regional governing body.
 The cities of Ankara, Antalya and Istanbul hosted the tournament.
 Yugoslavia won its eighth FIBA European title by defeating hosts Turkey with a 78–69 score in the final.
 Vlado Šćepanović scored 19 points for Yugoslavia, while İbrahim Kutluay scored 19 for Turkey.
 Yugoslavia's Peja Stojaković was voted the tournament's MVP.
The following is the list of squads for each of the 16 teams competing in the EuroBasket 2001, held in Turkey between 31 August and 9 September 2001.
 Each team selected a squad of 12 players for the tournament.
Pranas Talzūnas (born as Frank Konstant Talzunas in Chicago, May 23, 1913 – ?)
 was a Lithuanian American basketball player.
 He won a gold medal with the Lithuania national basketball team during the EuroBasket 1937, held in Riga.
 Pranas was named MVP of EuroBasket 1937 and is regarded as the first player to use the hook shot.
 Talzūnas attitude toward the game, the matches and the representing of the nation seriousness are perfectly described by his words after the successful competition ending: "I confess that going to Riga I had no clue what to thought: whenever we will win or not.
 I didn't knew how our upcoming opponents plays.
 <...> We won deservedly, however <...> it wasn't easy.
 <...> The concern of the upcoming battles for me and for Feliksas Kriaučiūnas didn't let us to sleep for any single night.
 <...> We were considering the victories possibilities for hours and still doubted it.
 Now everything is over.
 For me the heaviest stone just fall from the chest".
Qualification for the 2003 FIBA European Championship, commonly called FIBA EuroBasket 2003 took place between 17 May 2000 and 25 January 2003.
 A total of fourteen teams qualified for the tournament.
 Sweden and Serbia and Montenegro qualified directly as hosts and EuroBasket 2001 Champions respectively.
Predrag Stojaković (, ] ; born June 9, 1977), also known by his nickname Peja (sr.
 Peđa/Pedja/Пеђа, ] ), is a Serbian professional basketball executive and former player.
 He is currently the director of player personnel and development for the Sacramento Kings and the general manager for the Reno Bighorns, Sacramento's NBA G League affiliate.
Frank Edward Thomas Jr. (born May 27, 1968), nicknamed "The Big Hurt," is an American former first baseman in Major League Baseball who played for three American League (AL) teams from 1990 to 2008, all but the last three years with the Chicago White Sox.
 One of the most fearsome and devastating hitters of his era, he is the only player in major league history to have seven consecutive seasons (1991–1997) with a .300 batting average and at least 100 runs batted in (RBI), 100 runs scored, 100 walks and 20 home runs; over that period, he batted .330 and averaged 36 home runs and 118 RBI per year.
 A perennial MVP candidate through the 1990s, he was named the AL's Most Valuable Player by unanimous vote in 1993 after becoming the first White Sox player to hit 40 home runs, leading the team to a division title; he repeated as MVP in the strike-shortened 1994 season after batting .353 and leading the league in slugging average and runs.
 After two subpar seasons, he lost the MVP in a close vote in 2000 after posting career highs of 43 home runs and 143 RBI, also earning AL Comeback Player of the Year honors, as Chicago finished with the AL's best record.

Question: The MVP for the EuroBasket 2001 was born in what year?
Answer: 1977