Basketball
- April 1 – NCAA Men's Basketball Championship –
- Kentucky wins 76-67 over Syracuse
- NBA Finals –
- Chicago Bulls win 4 games to 2 over the Seattle SuperSonics, after a record-breaking 72-10 regular season.
- National Basketball League (Australia) Finals:
- South East Melbourne Magic defeated the Melbourne Tigers 2-1 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)