Basketball
- NBA Finals – San Antonio Spurs defeat the New York Knicks, 4 games to 1, to win the franchise's first championship. The Spurs also became the first former ABA team to win an NBA title, while the Knicks were the first number eight seed in NBA history to make it to the NBA Finals.
- Utah Jazz Forward Karl Malone named NBA MVP for the second time in his career
- Toronto Raptors Guard/Forward Vince Carter named NBA Rookie of the Year
- NCAA Men's Basketball Championship –
- Connecticut wins 77–74 over Duke
- Duke Blue Devils Forward Elton Brand named Naismith College Player of the Year & John R. Wooden Award
- WNBA Finals – – The Houston Comets defeat the New York Liberty, 2 games to 1, to win their third title in a row.
- National Basketball League (Australia) Finals:
- Adelaide 36ers defeated the Victoria Titans 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)