Basketball
- April 9 - Asia's first professional basketball league, the Philippine Basketball Association played its first game at the Araneta Coliseum.
- Darryl Dawkins becomes the first NBA player drafted out of high school.
- NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship –
- UCLA wins 92-85 over Kentucky in John Wooden's final game as Bruins coach.
- NBA Finals –
- Golden State Warriors win 4 games to 0 over the Washington Bullets
- 1975 ABA Finals –
- Kentucky Colonels defeat Indiana Pacers 4 games to 1
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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)