Basketball
- NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship –
- UCLA wins 79-64 over Dayton. This would be the first of an unprecedented seven consecutive titles for the Bruins.
- NBA Finals –
- Philadelphia 76ers won 4 games to 2 over the San Francisco Warriors
- FIBA World Championship
- USSR World Champion
- The American Basketball Association begins play as a rival league to the NBA.
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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)