Basketball
- NBA Finals – The Detroit Pistons, in a major upset, defeat the heavily-favored Los Angeles Lakers, 4 games to 1. It is the Pistons first NBA title in fourteen years, and the third in franchise history.
- WNBA Finals- The Seattle Storm defeat the Connecticut Sun in three games.
- NCAA Men's Basketball Championship
- The Connecticut Huskies win 82-73 over the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets. UConn's Emeka Okafor is named Most Outstanding Player of the Final Four.
- NCAA Women's Basketball Championship
- The following day, the UConn women follow suit, defeating the Tennessee Lady Volunteers 70-61, making UConn the first school to win both the NCAA Division I men's and women's basketball championships in the same season. UConn's Diana Taurasi is named the Most Outstanding Player of the Final Four.
- Euroleague – Maccabi Tel Aviv of Israel wins the final 118-74 over Fortitudo Bologna of Italy.
- Chinese Basketball Association finals: Guangdong Southern Tigers defeat Bayi Rockets, 3 games to 1.
- National Basketball League (Australia) – Sydney Kings defeated the West Sydney Razorbacks 3-2 in best-of-five 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)