Editing 1976 in sports (section)

==[[Basketball]]==
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* [[1976 NCAA Division I Basketball Championship Game|NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship]] –
** [[Indiana Hoosiers|Indiana]] wins 86–68 over [[Michigan Wolverines|Michigan]]
* [[1976 NBA Finals|NBA Finals]] –
** [[Boston Celtics]] win 4 games to 2 over the [[Phoenix Suns]]
* [[1976 ABA Playoffs]] –
** [[New York Nets]] defeat [[Denver Nuggets]] 4 games to 2
* [[American Basketball Association]] merges with the [[National Basketball Association]].  Of the seven remaining teams in the ABA, the [[Virginia Squires]] fold, [[Kentucky Colonels]] and [[Spirits of St. Louis]] are bought out, and the remaining four teams ([[San Antonio Spurs]], [[Denver Nuggets]], [[New York Nets]], and [[Indiana Pacers]]) join the NBA