Basketball
- NCAA Men's Basketball Championship –
- Georgetown wins 84-75 over Houston
- NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Championship
- University of Southern California(USC) wins 72–61 over Tennessee
- NBA Finals –
- Boston Celtics won 4 games to 3 over the Los Angeles Lakers
- National Basketball League (Australia) Finals:
- Canberra Cannons defeated the Brisbane Bullets 84-82 in the final.
- Central Missouri State University won the NCAA Division II men's and women's basketball titles, becoming the first school ever in any division to accomplish the feat. The University of Connecticut would do the same in Division I in 2004.
- NBA Draft –
- A new era in the NBA is born on June 23 with the drafting of Houston's Hakeem Olajuwon, North Carolina's Michael Jordan and Auburn's Charles Barkley.
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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)