January 29
From Hoopedia
- 1955 - Washington Bullets star Greg Ballard is born in Los Angeles, California.
- 1959 - Adolph Rupp (right) wins his 600th game as coach at the University of Kentucky, then an NCAA Division I men's record. He coached from 1930 to 1972 and retired with 876 victories and four national titles. Dean Smith, former North Carolina coach, now holds the career record with 879 victories.
- 1988 - The Detroit Pistons set an NBA regular season single-game attendance record when 61,983 fans watch the Pistons defeat the Boston Celtics, 125-108, in the Pontiac Silverdome (above). That record would be broken in 1998 by the Atlanta Hawks.
- 1989 - As a result of a joint venture between the NBA and the U.S.S.R. State Committee for Television and Radio (Gosteleradio), a New York-Boston game from January 3 airs on Soviet National Television on Sunday at 12:55 P.M. (Moscow time). The game marks the first NBA game ever aired on Soviet National Television.
- 1994 - With a 108-101 victory over the Sacramento Kings, the Dallas Mavericks snap their NBA-record 19-game home loss streak.
- 2000 - Karl Malone of the Utah Jazz becomes the third player in NBA history to score 30,000 career points, as he finishes with 35 in a 96-94 loss to Minnesota at the Target Center. Malone thus takes his place in NBA annals alongside Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (38,387 career points) and Wilt Chamberlain (31,419).
