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Example sentences for: basketball

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In attempting to "walk back the cat" (to use the increasingly prevalent argot of the intelligence services for tracing a chain of events backward to establish a point of origin), I have found yadda - yadda - yadda strands in episodes of Seinfeld and Home Improvement . The most compelling manifestation, though, is in an advertisement for Converse athletic shoes featuring images of Kevin Johnson of the Phoenix Suns that was aired on national television during last spring's basketball championships:
Hoping to launch with a bang, ESPN breaks the news that the scoring record broken (in controversial fashion) by University of Connecticut basketball player Nykesha Sales may in fact still stand.
In basketball, where teams are constituted by the season, each player looking out for his own career doesn't appear to harm the overall quality of the game.
A sportswriter plays a pickup basketball game with Oscar Robertson, who has lost a step but not his competitive spirit.
The two films cited most often are Heathers , in which Christian Slater is foiled in an attempt to detonate his school, and The Basketball Diaries , in which Leonardo DiCaprio fantasizes about gunning down his classmates and a priest Terminator -style while his buddies cheer.