Basketball
- NBA Finals –
- Los Angeles Lakers win their first NBA title in twelve years, defeating the Indiana Pacers 4 games to 2.
- NCAA Men's Basketball Championship –
- Michigan State wins 89–76 over Florida
- WNBA Finals –
- Houston Comets win 2 games to 0 over the New York Liberty to complete their four–peat.\
- Euroleague Final:
- Panathinaikos defeats Maccabi Tel Aviv 73–67 for the title.
- National Basketball League (Australia) Finals:
- Perth Wildcats defeated the Victoria Titans 2–0 in the best–of–three final series.
- European basketball enters a new era with the creation of ULEB by 24 top club teams throughout the continent. This leads to a rift with FIBA and the creation of two separate continent-wide competitions for the 2000–01 season—the Suproleague, operated by FIBA, and ULEB's Euroleague.
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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)