Boston Celtics big man Amir Johnson was born, and three players were taken from the team in the 1967 NBA expansion draft.

The NBA playoffs expanded from 12 to 16 teams in 1984. Recently, the NBA also developed a play-in tournament, in which eight ...

The new teams in question would be the San Diego Rockets and Seattle Supersonics ... California in 1987. Johnson signed a two-season contract to play for Boston in 2015 after stints with the ...

Lucky No. 7: The 1987 SuperSonics were the NBA's first No. 7 seed to win a first-round series, followed by the 1989 Warriors, 1991 Warriors, 1998 Knicks, 2010 Spurs and 2023 Lakers.

1895 — African American jockey James “Soup” Perkins guides Halma to a wire-to-wire victory in the Kentucky Derby. The 15-year-old joins fellow African American jockey Alonzo Clayton as the youngest ...

1987 — Mario Andretti sets one-lap speed ... with a 98-94 overtime win against the No. 1-seeded Seattle SuperSonics, become the first eighth-seeded playoff team to win a series.