March 4

1966 - Kevin Johnson, three-time NBA All-Star from the Phoenix Suns, is born in Sacramento, California.

1990 - (Above) Loyola Marymount University superstar Hank Gathers collapses in a West Coast Conference tournament semifinal game. He is declared dead on arrival at a nearby hospital. An autopsy reveals that he suffered from a heart-muscle disorder, cardiomyopathy.

1993 - (Right) At the inaugural ESPY awards, NC State head coach Jim Valvano wins the Arthur Ashe Courage and Humanitarian Award. In one of the most memorable speeches in all of sports, he announces the creation of The V Foundation, an organization dedicated to finding a cure for cancer. He would die of cancer less than two months later, on April 28.

1996 - Utah’s John Stockton hands out 11 assists during the Jazz’s 110-87 victory over Phoenix, becoming the first NBA player to collect 11,000 career assists.

1998 - Arbitrator John Feerick upholds the NBA's suspension of Latrell Sprewell for the 1997-98 season, resulting in a monetary penalty of $6.4 million, finding that the NBA's investigation was "done in good faith and was fair and adequate." Feerick also found "that the NBA complied with the standards of industrial due process." He reduced the NBA's suspension to the extent it had included approximately one month of the 1998-99 season. However, the arbitrator reinstated Sprewell's contract with Golden State for the 1998-99 and 1999-2000 seasons, finding that the combination of a one-season suspension and a contract termination would not be appropriate under all of the circumstances.

2007 - (Above) Gerald Henderson Jr. of Duke crashes into Tyler Hansbrough of North Carolina with his right elbow with 14.5 seconds remaining in the game, breaking Hansbrough's nose. Henderson is ejected from the game and receives an automatic one-game suspension for a "combative foul."