1.   Believe it or not, this was the first professional basketball game I ever attended.

2.   -- Lindsay Davenport attended her first pro basketball game Saturday night and watched the Knicks defeat Atlanta.

3.   After one season, the first black basketball player at the University of Kentucky was convicted of rape here.

4.   Collins will be the first basketball player to leave Stanford early.

5.   He also was the first true basketball celebrity, a man who loved the limelight.

6.   Her first Olympic basketball game is five days away.

7.   Hewitt becomes the first black basketball coach in Georgia Tech history and only the third in ACC history.

8.   If Edwards sticks through Atlanta, she will be the first American basketball player to make four Olympic teams.

9.   It is the first basketball title in the long history of the school, a milestone that was not lost on Williams, a Maryland alum.

10.   Jim Calhoun was raised in Braintree and got his first basketball thrills playing in the old Tech Tourney at Boston Garden.