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basketballer
n. (context informal English) A basketball player; a person who plays basketball.
Usage examples of "basketballer".
He was on the National Indigenous Sports Award board-together with such Aboriginal luminaries as Pastor Sir Doug Nicholls, the late Sugar Ray Robinson, basketballer Danny Morseu and Charlie Perkins.
And she wanted to see the Dream Team, the US pro basketballers, but knew it would drain too much nervous energy "Watching an entire match.