Basketball
- NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship –
- Indiana wins 86-68 over Michigan
- NBA Finals –
- Boston Celtics win 4 games to 2 over the Phoenix Suns
- 1976 ABA Playoffs –
- New York Nets defeat Denver Nuggets 4 games to 2
- American Basketball Association merges with the National Basketball Association; Virginia Squires fold and Kentucky Colonels and Spirits of St. Louis are bought out
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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)