Basketball
- NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship –
- UCLA wins 68–02 over Villanova
- Indiana University Hires Robert Montgomery "Bob" Knight as their head basketball coach.
- NBA Finals –
- Milwaukee Bucks win 4 games to 0 over the Baltimore Bullets
- 1971 ABA Finals –
- Utah Stars defeat Kentucky Colonels 4 games to 3; Stars defeat Indiana Pacers in division finals while Colonels defeat Virginia Squires.
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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)