Basketball
BAA Finals
- Minneapolis Lakers win four games to two over the Washington Capitols
NBL Championship
- Anderson Packers win three games to none over the Oshkosh All-Stars
Events
- On August 3rd, the NBL merges with the BAA, forming the National Basketball Association.
- The sixth European basketball championship, Eurobasket 1949, is won by Egypt.
- The fourteenth South American Basketball Championship in Asunción is won by Uruguay.
Read more about this topic: 1949 In Sports
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)