Jordan’s Bulls get first title

The Chicago Bulls won the first NBA championship in the team’s 25-year history on this date in 1991 when Michael Jordan scored 30 points to lead them to a 108-101 victory in Game 5 over a depleted Lakers team at the Forum.

The Lakers started rookies Elden Campbell and Tony Smith because they were without James Worthy and Byron Scott.

“I just told them to have some fun,” Magic Johnson said of the rookies. “We just didn’t have quite enough fun like [the Bulls] are having now.”

Here is a look at memorable games and outstanding sports performances on this date:

1930 — Max Schmeling beats Jack Sharkey for the vacant heavyweight title at Yankee Stadium in New York when Sharkey is disqualified in the fourth round for throwing a low blow.

1948 — Citation, with Eddie Arcaro in the saddle, wins the Belmont Stakes and the Triple Crown with an eight-length victory over Better Self. It’s Arcaro’s second Triple Crown after riding Whirlaway in 1941.

1948 — Ben Hogan defeats Jimmy Demaret by two shots to win the U.S. Open with a record four-round total of 276 at Riviera Country Club. It is Hogan’s third victory in 18 months at the Pacific Palisades course, which becomes known as “Hogan’s Alley.”

2017 — Kevin Durant caps his spectacular first season with the Golden State Warriors with an NBA championship. Durant scores 39 points in a 129-120 victory over LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers in Game 5 of the NBA Finals at Oracle Arena in Oakland.