Basketball
- July 1 – The NBA locked out its players and the season was put on hold for the next 6½ months and the season began under a 50–game schedule.
- NCAA Men's Basketball Championship –
- Kentucky wins 78–69 over Utah
- NBA Finals –
- Chicago Bulls win 4 games to 2 over the Utah Jazz, to complete their second three–peat of the decade.
- WNBA Finals –
- Houston Comets win two games to one over the Phoenix Mercury to repeat as champions.
- FIBA World Championship
- Yugoslavia World Champion
- National Basketball League (Australia) Finals:
- Adelaide 36ers defeated the South East Melbourne Magic 2–0 in the best–of–three final series.
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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)