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1938

Doug Moe is born in Brooklyn, New York. He was inducted into the New York City Basketball Hall of Fame in 1998.

1949

Naismith Hall of Fame inductee Artis Gilmore is born in Chipley, Florida.

1951

The Tri-Cities Blackhawks are approved to re-locate to Milwaukee and shorten their name to Hawks.

1956

Jack Givens is born in Lexington, Kentucky. He was named Kentucky “Mr. Basketball” in 1974 while starring for Bryan Station High School then stayed in his home town to play collegiate ball at the University of Kentucky.

1957

Sidney Moncrief is born in Little Rock, Arkansas. Along with Marvin Delph and Ron Brewer, he was part of the Arkansas-born “Triplets” who led the Razorbacks to a surprise Final Four run in 1978.

1958

NBA champion Rick Mahorn is born in Hartford, Connecticut.

1964

Keith Smart is born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He missed almost his entire senior season at McKinley High School due to a broken arm and started his college career at a community college in Kansas before getting recruited by Indiana University.

1974

Bryce Drew is born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Despite suffering from a heart condition that required multiple surgeries, he was named Indiana Mr. Basketball in his senior year at Valparaiso High School.

1987

Courtney Paris is born in San Jose, California. She starred at Millenium High School and at the University of Oklahoma alongside her twin sister, Ashley.

1988

Despite a 31-point effort from Oscar Schmidt, the United States men’s team defeats Brazil 102-87 in a group stage match at the Olympics in Seoul. J.R. Reid leads the Americans with 16 points and eight rebounds. In other group stage play, Sarunas Marciulionis scores 32 points to help the Soviet Union survive an upset bid from Puerto Rico, prevailing 93-81 in overtime.

1990

Al-Farouq Aminu is born in Atlanta, Georgia. Born to a Nigerian father and supposedly descended from a line of Nigerian kings, Aminu represented his ancestral national team at the 2012 Olympics.

2000

For the first time since NBA players started participating, the United States men’s team wins an Olympics game by only single digits, defeating Lithuania 85-76 in group stage play in Sydney. Gary Payton leads the U.S. with 14 points while Darius Songaila, then coming off his sophomore year at Wake Forest, finishes with 16 points and eight rebounds for Lithuania. The teams would meet again a week later in the semifinal and the result was even closer, with the U.S. escaping by just two points.

2006

Russia stuns the United States 75-68 in the semifinals of the FIBA World Championship for Women in São Paulo, Brazil. It breaks a streak of 26 consecutive wins for the Americans in FIBA World Championship competitions.

2017

The NBA institutes two new foul rules for the ’17-’18 season. One is the “Zaza Pachulia” rule in which players can be assessed a technical or flagrant foul for impeding on a shooter’s ability to land safely. It was named as such after Pachulia injured Kawhi Leonard in the 2017 playoffs. The other is the “James Harden” rule in which a player can be charged an offensive foul for intentionally making contact with a defender in an unnatural motion.

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