Earl Boykins is a professional basketball player in the NBA – and he’s only 1.65 meters tall and weighs 60 kilograms.
It gives balls – basketballs, tennis balls, even golf balls – their bounce.
It tells the story of Conroy’s love for basketball.
Other balls such as basketballs and soccer balls contain a rubber bladder – an airtight pocket – full of compressed air.
Soccer, basketball, tennis, and other sports now attract more spectators.
What are their chances of becoming professional athletes in one of these team sports: baseball, basketball, hockey, or American football?
When we hear the word “sport,” we usually think of football, basketball, the Olympic Games, and things like that.
A student in one of our Church schools was once heard to say, "My teacher teaches me more religion by the way he plays basketball than by the way he teaches theology."
I am just as enthusiastic over basketball as ever, only I haven't had the time to devote to it that I did last year.
I know it, replied Grace, "but after Thanksgiving we'll only meet once in two weeks, for I must get my basketball team in shape, and you see all the members belong to the society."
There are two girls on the sophomore and three on the freshman team whose basketball ardor will have to cool until after the mid-year exams.
Then groups of young people played instruments informally, chatted, exchanged, toured the school, playedbasketballand generally and genuinely interacted.
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Many punks come from established working-class backgrounds and in their neighbourhood can get access to abasketballcourt or community centre.
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On top of the deck is abasketballcourt.
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However, if boys prefer to play, for example,basketballwith other boys, does it mean they are more empathetic towards boys than girls?
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The town erected a statue of him and named a street and their newbasketballgym after him.
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I am not free to be a leading opera singer, nor is the short adult free to be a leadingbasketballplayer.
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For every million instances of playingbasketball, approximately 1900 individuals will sustain injuries, including 180 broken bones and 58 permanent disabilities.
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And pity the poor child who is the clone of a famousbasketballplayer.
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The personnel officer of the company interviewed thebasketballplayer.
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These changes in the rules ofbasketballand soccer may be sensible responses to "natural" enhancements.
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He was about winningbasketballand winning as human beings.
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Named after the play inbasketball, it means to aggressively put the moves on, or to hit on someone.
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Consider the case of teams, such asbasketballteams, playing in a league.
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She also taught children to play football andbasketball.
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The teachers' pleas for calm were greeted with cheers that would not have been out of place at abasketballgame.
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Collocationswithbasketball
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basketball arena
Planning has been announced for a newbasketballarena.
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basketball camp
Bailey's basketball camps often focus on students with serious illnesses or disadvantaged backgrounds.
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basketball career
Throughout his youth, and continuing through his collegebasketballcareer, he played bass guitar at his father's church.
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