1939 in Sports - Basketball

Basketball

NBL Championship

  • Akron Firestone Non-Skids win three games to two over the Oshkosh All-Stars

Events

  • The third European basketball championship, Eurobasket 1939, is won by Lithuania.
  • The seventh South American Basketball Championship in Rio de Janeiro is won by Brazil.

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Famous quotes containing the word basketball:

    “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)