May 14
From Hoopedia
- 1972 - Above: The NBA Cincinnati Royals move West and become the Kansas City-Omaha Kings. Today they are the Sacramento Kings.
- 1975 - After months of pleading, New York Nets general manager Dave DeBusschere finally agrees to become the Commissioner of the struggling American Basketball Association (ABA). Within two years he would engineer a merger with the better-established National Basketball Association.
- 1981 - Larry Bird and Cornbread Maxwell lead the Boston Celtics to the NBA Championship, as they defeat the Houston Rockets, 102-91. It is Boston's first title in five years.
- 1982 - Duke and Washington Mystics star Alana Beard is born in Shreveport, Louisiana.
- 1983 - Slovenian basketball player Uroš Slokar is born in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
- 1997 - A bench-clearing melee at the end of Miami's 96-81 win over the New York Knicks in Game 5 of the NBA Eastern Conference semifinals results in one-game suspensions of five Knicks, including superstar Patrick Ewing. As a result, the Knicks lose the next two games and the series.
- 2003 - (Right) Hall of Fame NBA player, NBA coach, and ABA Commissioner Dave DeBusschere passes away in New York, aged 62.
