Basketball
- NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship –
- UCLA wins 80–69 over Jacksonville
- National Basketball Association –
- New York Knicks won 4 games to 3 over the Los Angeles Lakers
- 1970 ABA Finals –
- Indiana Pacers defeat Los Angeles Stars 4 games to 2
- FIBA World Championship –
- Yugoslavia World Champion
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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)