basketball player

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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player
noun[C]
uk
/ˈpleɪ.ər/us
/ˈpleɪ.ɚ/
someone who takes part in a game ...
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(Definition ofbasketballandplayerfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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He has a physical disability: he is a 2 point wheelchairbasketballplayer.
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He needed one year to fully recover from the injury and therefore, he became a full-timebasketballplayer.
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In it, he wrote that he wished for a golden retriever, to become a professionalbasketballplayer, and to help kids with cancer.
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He also wanted to become abasketballplayerlike his true body.
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Standing tall, she was famous for being the tallest professional femalebasketballplayerin the world.
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Cheesman has also been described as a truly world-classbasketballplayer.
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As a child, he was a youngbasketballplayerwith a nice heart.
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Its storyline centered on abasketballplayerfound dead on a college campus.
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However, by sharing responsibility rather than shouldering it, he continued to blossom as a great all-aroundbasketballplayer.
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An athletic boy, he excelled at baseball and was an all-starbasketballplayer.
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She was an avidbasketballplayerthroughout her high school career.
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He is also a former professionalbasketballplayer.
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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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The personnel officer of the company interviewed thebasketballplayer.
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And pity the poor child who is the clone of a famousbasketballplayer.
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Glace was originally not much of abasketballplayer.
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In one experiment, subjects watched abasketballplayertaking a series of free throws.
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Long also was abasketballplayerand was involved in track while in high school.
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Everybasketballplayeris interacting with all of his teammates all the time.
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He was also very involved in athletics as abasketballplayer, a track runner, a pitcher in baseball, and the quarterback of the football team.
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In his youth, he was a successfulbasketballplayer.
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Vahue is a superstarbasketballplayerimprisoned for charges related to a major drug addiction.
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He was also a standoutbasketballplayer, earning all-conferencing honors.
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In his high school years, he was a talented football andbasketballplayer.
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He has a physical disability: he is 1 point wheelchairbasketballplayer.
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He has a physical disability: he is a 3 point wheelchairbasketballplayer.
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He became a starbasketballplayer, leading his high school team to a 251 record in his senior year.
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