Basketball
Met's win World Series.
- NCAA Men's Basketball Championship –
- Louisville Cardinals wins 72-69 over Duke Blue Devils
- Duke Blue Devils Guard Johnny Dawkins is named Naismith College Player of the Year
- NBA Finals
- June - Boston Celtics win 4 games to 2 over the Houston Rockets
- Boston Celtics Forward Larry Bird is awarded NBA Most Valuable Player Award
- National Basketball League (Australia) Finals:
- Adelaide 36ers defeated the Brisbane Bullets 2-1 in the best-of-three final series.
- FIBA World Championship
- US World Champion
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“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)
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