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professional basketball

n. playing basketball for money

Usage examples of "professional basketball".

The Tropical Storm sat atop the Women's Professional Basketball League.

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.

Of course, there were legitimate business interests to be considered too, and he'd been buying into quite a lot of them lately: a leatherworks factory in New Hampshire, a computer plant in Pittsburgh, thoroughbred yearlings in Kentucky and California, a professional basketball team in Albuquerque.

Burt would be cut beforethe start of the season - poetic irony that neither he nor Myron would playin a real professional basketball game.

He looked either like a successful stockbroker or a professional basketball coach.

She was a very serious person whose main hobby seemed to be an avid interest in professional basketball.

In this cramped chamber the Sambusai towered over him like professional basketball players.

It isn't as unlikely as it sounds-a lot of the things that started pummelling me could bench-press a professional basketball team, whereas I was only human.

The second man was slimmer, built more like a professional basketball player than a weightlifter.

Viewed from behind on a dark night a single Massood might temporarily pass for a tall Human, but a cluster of them would be as conspicuous as a professional basketball team in Bangkok.

He is also a brother to Phil Jordon, a professional basketball player who played for New York Knickerbockers and also the Detroit Pistons.

The ceiling was high above me, thirty feet at least, and glancing about I saw that I was alone in a sparsely furnished bedroom that was big enough to be used for a game of professional basketball.

Upon reentering the United States from Canada, in March of 1998, California resident Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the highest scoring professional basketball player in history, was busted for possession of a small amount of marijuana.

He is also a brother to Phil Jordon, a professional basketball player who played for New York Knickerbockers and also the Detroit PisĀ­.