Words similar to basketball

Example sentences for: basketball

How can you use “basketball” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

When Larry Bird and Magic Johnson retired six years ago, they left the National Basketball Association in the capable hands of Michael Jordan.
First, if you didn't know who the two were and you were told that one of them was, as a youth, one of the great basketball players in the country, you wouldn't have picked Bill Bradley.
A few years ago, I watched an NCAA basketball playoff game at Caesar's sports book in Vegas.
"That's pretty much an accomplishment that won't happen, unfortunately for basketball and America."
He filmed in and around Brooklyn's Lincoln High, which is also the setting of Darcy Frey's superb book The Last Shot: City Streets, Basketball Dreams , an equally panoramic but more grounded portrait of the game's meaning to the denizens of the Coney Island projects.