basketball career

collocation in English

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basketball
noun
uk
/ˈbɑː.skɪt.bɔːl/us
/ˈbæs.kət.bɑːl/
a game played by two teams of five players who score points by throwing a large ball through an open net hanging from a ...
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career
adjective[before noun]
uk
/kəˈrɪər/us
/kəˈrɪr/
having a job or position as part of the career that you are trained for and are normally paid to do, rather than being chosen for it as a member or supporter of a government or ...
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(Definition ofbasketballandcareerfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Throughout his youth, and continuing through his collegebasketballcareer, he played bass guitar at his father's church.
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It means so much to me to have the chance to continue mybasketballcareer.
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He played baseball for three seasons in between hisbasketballcareer.
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However, due to breaking his knee in the end, hisbasketballcareerended before it begins.
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The success of his collegebasketballcareerdid not carry over into the professional leagues in which he entered.
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He stated that he started focusing on hisbasketballcareerafter his father died in 2010.
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It seemed that hisbasketballcareerwas over.
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Following hisbasketballcareer, he worked as the general manager of lkerspor for 8 years.
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He started hisbasketballcareerin first grade, by that time he was 7 years old.
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When his aspirations for a college and professionalbasketballcareerproved unsuccessful, he turned to acting and modeling.
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This game ultimately became the highlight of his post-collegiatebasketballcareer, however, because he re-injured his knee while walking up an escalator.
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She had a shoulder injury around 2003 that put herbasketballcareerat risk.
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After hisbasketballcareer, he became an attorney.
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He changed schools often due to his father's changing locations during his professionalbasketballcareer.
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After hisbasketballcareerended, he became a successful insurance salesman.
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She started playing organized basketball in the fourth grade and by the time she reached high school was hoping for a collegebasketballcareer.
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In the mid-1990s, he tried to scrape together abasketballcareerin minor leagues.
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She anticipates working in corrections at the close of herbasketballcareer.
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A serious knee injury cut hisbasketballcareershort.
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She broke her hip in 2001, and was originally told that herbasketballcareerwould be over after the injury.
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Witte was seriously injured, taken off the court on a stretcher and hospitalized with injuries, including to an eye, that negatively impacted hisbasketballcareer.
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