American basketball champion David Robinson scored a career-high 50 points in the NCAA tournament.
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A helicopter carrying nine people, including Kobe Bryant and his daughter, crashed in California with no survivors.
The National Basketball Association (NBA) is founded.
Basketball player Michael Jordan was offered the richest NBA one-year contract of $30 million from the Chicago Bulls.
NBA hired the first African American coach Bill Russell for the Boston Celtics.
Robert L. Douglas, the Father of Black Professional Basketball, set up the first pro-black basketball team called Renaissance.
