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Example sentences for: basketball

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The ruddy basketball and the boy's red, white, and blue togs seem to reinforce the message: This is America's game.
The annual Six Day Cycle Race has been held every January since 1997 at the Velodrom, while the Max-Schmeling-Halle draws basketball fans by the thousands to see the home team, Alba Berlin, take on the opposition.
Critics rank Spike Lee's Oedipal basketball drama--starring Denzel Washington as a convict and the NBA's Ray Allen as his estranged son--at the top of his oeuvre . After paying Lee's recent films scant attention, they declare him "underrated" and "overlooked" (Janet Maslin, the New York Times ). They're pleased to find that Allen can act, that Washington has a mean streak, and that Lee critiques capitalism more than he does racism.
You only have to imagine a state policy applying the high-school quota system to, say, basketball scholarships--and explicitly being praised by state officials as a way to increase the number of white basketball players--to realize how empty the claims are that this arrangement avoids the alleged evil of racial preference.
The high-jumping bovine also reinforces Nike's core identification with basketball and the Bulls' Michael Jordan.