{"id":24080,"date":"2016-04-25T08:01:34","date_gmt":"2016-04-25T15:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/today-in-sports-history-april-25\/"},"modified":"2016-04-25T08:01:34","modified_gmt":"2016-04-25T15:01:34","slug":"today-in-sports-history-april-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/sports\/today-in-sports-history-april-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Today in sports history: April 25"},"content":{"rendered":"

1950 \u2014 Charles Cooper, an All-American from Duquesne playing with the Harlem Globetrotters, becomes the first black to be picked in the NBA draft when he\u2019s taken by the Boston Celtics.<\/strong><\/p>\n

1952 \u2014 The Minneapolis Lakers, led by George Mikan\u2019s 22 points, beat the New York Knicks 82-65 to win the NBA title in seven games.<\/strong><\/p>\n

1964 \u2014 The Toronto Maple Leafs win their third straight Stanley Cup with a 4-0 victory over the Detroit Red Wings in the seventh game.<\/strong><\/p>\n

1965 \u2014 The Boston Celtics score 42 points on a record 21 field goals in the final quarter of Game 5 to post a 129-96 rout of the Los Angeles Lakers and win their seventh consecutive NBA championship.<\/strong><\/p>\n

1974 \u2014 The NFL adopts the 15-minute, sudden-death overtime to avoid ties. The league also moves the goal posts to the back of the end zones.<\/strong><\/p>\n

1989 \u2014 Mario Lemieux ties NHL playoff records with four first-period goals, five overall and eight points as the Pittsburgh Penguins beat Philadelphia 10-7 to take a 3-2 lead in the Patrick Division finals.<\/strong><\/p>\n

1993 \u2014 Micheal Williams set an NBA record for consecutive free throws with 84. He made 10 straight as the Minnesota Timberwolves beat Utah 113-111. Calvin Murphy held the previous mark of 78 for Houston in 1981.<\/strong><\/p>\n

1993 \u2014 Pittsburgh\u2019s NHL-record 14-game playoff winning streak and its overall 21-game unbeaten string are snapped as the New Jersey Devils beat the Penguins 4-1.<\/strong><\/p>\n

1995 \u2014 Major league baseball returns after a 257-day players\u2019 strike as the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Florida Marlins 8-7.<\/strong><\/p>\n

1997 \u2014 Phoenix\u2019s Rex Chapman makes a playoff-record nine 3-pointers en route to career-high 42 points in a 106-101 win at Seattle. Chapman broke the old playoff mark of eight treys set by Dan Majerle of Phoenix against Seattle on June 1, 1993.<\/strong><\/p>\n

2000 \u2014 The San Jose Sharks, the Western Conference\u2019s No. 8 seed, eliminate the NHL\u2019s regular-season champions, the St. Louis Blues, with a 3-1 victory in Game 7. The Blues are the second NHL regular-season champion to get knocked out in the first round, joining the 1991 Chicago Blackhawks.<\/strong><\/p>\n

2006 \u2014 Miami Dolphins running back Ricky Williams is suspended for the 2006 season by the NFL for violating the league\u2019s substance abuse policy for the fourth time.<\/strong><\/p>\n

2009 \u2014 San Antonio\u2019s Tony Parker matches George Gervin\u2019s franchise playoff record for points in a half, scoring 31 by halftime of the Spurs\u2019 99-90 loss to Dallas in Game 4 of their series. Parker makes 12 of 17 shots, including two 3-pointers, to help the Spurs take a 55-51 halftime lead. Parker finishes with 43 points.<\/strong><\/p>\n

2010 \u2014 Dwyane Wade sets franchise playoff records with 46 points, 30 in the second half, and Miami staves off elimination by beating Boston 101-92 in Game 4 of an Eastern Conference first-round series.<\/strong><\/p>\n

2013 \u2014 Miami\u2019s Ray Allen scores 23 points and breaks the NBA career playoff record for 3-pointers, and the Heat beat the Milwaukee Bucks 104-91 for a 3-0 lead in their first-round series. Allen\u2019s five 3-pointers against the Bucks gives him 322 for his career, two more than Reggie Miller.<\/strong><\/p>\n

2014 \u2014 In a historic vote, Northwestern University football players casts secret ballots on whether to form the nation\u2019s first union for college athletes \u2014 a decision that could change the landscape of American amateur sports.<\/strong><\/p>\n

2015 \u2014 Ukraine\u2019s Wladimir Klitschko easily outpoints a game-but-outclassed Bryant Jennings in the champion\u2019s first fight in the United States in seven years, defending his heavyweight titles with a unanimous decision at Madison Square Garden in New York.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1950 \u2014 Charles Cooper, an All-American from Duquesne playing with the Harlem Globetrotters, becomes the first black to be picked in the NBA draft when he\u2019s taken by the Boston Celtics. 1952 \u2014 The Minneapolis Lakers, led by George Mikan\u2019s 22 points, beat the New York Knicks 82-65 to win the NBA title in seven […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":6,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-24080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24080"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=24080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}