What is "basketball player"

Usage examples of "basketball player".

Some guy asked him what he'd be doingif he wasn't a basketball player.

Speedy moved, Jack saw, with a basketball player's rangy ease, his head up and his arms dangling.

The three white people recognized the faces immediately: Jackie Robinson from baseball, Jim Brown the great football running back, and Oscar Robertson, perhaps the best basketball player who ever lived.

I see him now as the greatest basketball player in the world, as the pick and cream of the great professionals, as the owner of a long-term, large-sized contract.

Desie attended Georgia State University with the plan of becoming a school-teacher but was sidetracked in her senior year by her engagement to a professional basketball player named Gorbak Didovlic, who stood a shade over seven feet tall and spoke no English.

So whenever possible he shared a seat with the basketball player, squeezing nervously past Raymond, who got on a stop earlier and liked to sit in the aisle seat and stretch his legs.

Philippe was young: a basketball player, a boxer, a university athlete who was earning a little cash doing work that he considered beneath him.

This rumdum, this Gresham Arnold, had long ago been a star basketball player for the Hemingford Rams, leading them to their first (and most likely last) high-school team championship.