* Sudanese-born Englishman Luol Deng ( 2007 winner of the NBA Sportsmanship Award )

On December 11, 2006, Commissioner Stern announced that beginning January 1, 2007, the NBA would return to the traditional leather basketball in use prior to the 2006 – 07 season.

On July 19, 2007, the Federal Bureau of Investigation investigated allegations that veteran NBA referee Tim Donaghy bet on basketball games he officiated over the past two seasons and that he made calls affecting the point spread in those games.

The Oklahoma City Thunder is the third major team overall, considering the temporary hosting of the NBA New Orleans / Oklahoma City Hornets from 2005 – 2007.

John Amaechi, who played in the NBA with the Utah Jazz, Orlando Magic and Cleveland Cavaliers ( as well as internationally with Panathinaikos BC of the Greek Basketball League and Kinder Bologna of the Italian Basketball League ), came out in February 2007 on ESPN's Outside the Lines program.

The Heat finished the regular season with a 44 – 38 record and faced the Chicago Bulls in the first round of the 2007 NBA Playoffs, to whom they lost 4 – 0 in the best of seven series.

Miami retained the 20th and 39th picks in the 2007 NBA Draft.

On April 15, 2007, with an 88 – 86 victory over the Boston Celtics, the Magic secured its first berth in the NBA Playoffs since 2003 by locking up the 8th seed in the Eastern Conference.

The Magic started the 2007 – 08 NBA season with an impressive 16 – 4 record in their first 20 games, which included wins over the Boston Celtics and Cleveland Cavaliers.

The Magic were also the only NBA team to wear black sneakers and socks in all their games, a tradition that began upon the hiring of Stan Van Gundy in 2007 ; however they wore white sneakers and socks at home in all of the 2008 – 09 season and early in the 2009 – 10 season before switching back to black sneakers and socks.

The 2008 NBA All-Star Game and its accompanying festivities were awarded to New Orleans and a serious marketing campaign was commenced in February 2007.

Ultimately, Curry refused to participate in the tests, and he was traded along with Antonio Davis to the New York Knicks for Michael Sweetney, Tim Thomas, and what became the second pick of the 2006 NBA Draft — as well as the right to swap picks with New York in the 2007 NBA Draft.

The Bulls started the 2007 – 08 NBA season by losing 10 of their first 12 games and on December 24, 2007, after a 9 – 16 start, the Bulls fired head coach Scott Skiles.

* Lance Allred – 2007 – 2008 ( First Deaf Player in the NBA )

The Pistons opened the 2007 NBA Playoffs with a 4 – 0 victory over the Orlando Magic, their first playoff series sweep since 1990.

In the 2007 NBA Draft the Pistons selected Rodney Stuckey as the 15th overall pick and Arron Afflalo as the 27th overall pick.

Since their inaugural 1980 – 81 season, the Mavericks have won three division titles ( 1987, 2007, 2010 ), two conference championships ( 2006, 2011 ), and one NBA Championship ( 2011 ).

Despite Nowitzki's MVP showing, the Mavericks were upset by their former coach Don Nelson and the 8th seeded Golden State Warriors in the 2007 NBA Playoffs.

On December 19, 2006, the Nuggets traded Joe Smith, Andre Miller and two first-round draft picks of the 2007 NBA Draft to the Philadelphia 76ers for Ivan McFarlin and superstar Allen Iverson ( McFarlin was waived immediately following the trade's approval ).

They finished the 2007 – 08 NBA season with exactly 50 wins as well as finishing the first half of that season 25 – 16 ( 50 – 32 overall record, tied for the third-best all-time Nuggets record since the team officially joined the NBA in 1976 ), following a 120 – 111 home victory over the Memphis Grizzlies in the last game of the season.

In the 2007 NBA Draft the Timberwolves selected Corey Brewer, with the 7th pick, and Chris Richard ( basketball ), with the 41st overall pick, from the two-time NCAA national champion Florida Gators.

Minnesota began the NBA preseason with two games in London and Istanbul, as part of NBA Europe Live 2007.

Development of a rational scale to assess the harm of drugs of potential misuse, The Lancet, 2007

World map indicating Education Index ( according to 2007 / 2008 Human Development Report )

The Ethiopian government has begun second part of the Road Sector Development Program, which was completed in 2007.

* Development of other content distribution networks on the internet through P2PTV ; EBU Project Group D / P2P, from November 2007 to April 2008, with a trial of selected member channels, thanks to Octoshape's distribution platform.

A case of fraud in 2007 perpetrated by a former master franchisee of the country's largest franchise system led to a review of the need for franchise law by the Ministry of Economic Development.

* operated by the Railroad Development Corporation until September 2007, now closed

In 2007, Lynch signed into law the Research and Development Tax credit which, for the following five years, appropriated $ 1, 000, 000 for companies to write off qualifying “ manufacturing research and development ” expenditures.

In 2007, Morocco adopted the Hassan II Fund for Development, which are measures that simplify procedures to make the process easier and more financially beneficial for foreign investors.

* hosted the Mars Track of the National Space Society's International Space Development Conference in 2007

In 2007, in honor of Moore's dedication to the Foundation, JDRF created the " Forever Moore " research initiative which will support JDRF's Academic Research and Development and JDRF's Clinical Development Program.

* North Sea Region Programme 2007 – 2013 transnational cooperation programme under the European Regional Development Fund

From 2003 to 2007, Nigeria attempted to implement an economic reform program called the National Economic Empowerment Development Strategy ( NEEDS ).

He had also been climbing the Suntop Media & European Foundation for Management Development ( EFMD ) rankings of the 50 most influential management thinkers placing 31st in 2001, 27th in 2003, and 12th in 2005, but fell to 21st in 2007.

In 2007, Infocomm Development Authority ( IDA ) of Singapore introduced a programme named " Wireless @ SG ".

In 2007, a larger strategic plan for this region followed up made by two UK-based firms, Landell Mills Development Consultants and Buro Happold.

From October 2005 to May 2007, he held the position of Director of Committer Community Development at the Eclipse Foundation.

Development continues, with around 100 ballistic missile flight tests ( not including those of the US ) in 2007, mostly by China, Iran and the Russian Federation.

* Development of highest resolution global climate models and contributions to the International Panel on Climate Change which, together with former vice president Al Gore, was awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.

* Jennifer Brinkerhoff, Stephen C. Smith, and Hildy Teegen, NGOs and the Millennium Development Goals: Citizen Action to Reduce Poverty, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

The first U. S. Government interagency graduate was John Riodan, of the United States Agency for International Development ( USAID ), who attended the AMSP in 2007 – 2008 ; the first Federal Bureau of Investigation student, Special Agent Danny Day, attended the AOASF beginning in 2009.

In 2007, Iceland topped the list of nations ranked by Human Development Index and was one of the most egalitarian, according to the calculation provided by the Gini coefficient.

Just before the 2007 NBA Draft, the Spurs purchased the Austin Toros of the NBA Development League, becoming the second NBA team to purchase an NBADL team.

The city of Dallas and the Texas Water Development Board filed a lawsuit in 2007 against the U. S Fish and Wildlife Service, claiming the wildlife refuge was established without considering the economic and environmental impacts.

" A similar bill, the Water Resources Development Act of 2007, which included the text of the original Corps peer review measure, eventually passed by Congress in 2007, overriding Presidential veto.