The word "basketball" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to the sport or to an actual basketball, depending on the context. For example: "My brother plays basketball every weekend."
As a part of America's higher education system, college basketball plays and important role in diversity, equality, fairness and inclusion, and will continue to do so in the future".
"I understand that basketball plays 80-something games, baseball plays this many games, soccer plays that many games, but this is a sport that's most-watched in America.
The ban does not prevent schools from earning the right to host a regional event, as with postseason baseball and women's basketball tournaments.
Other basketball players followed suit and, today, we commonly see basketball shorts four inches [10cm] below the knee (or lower).
He's a movie star, a basketball player, a congressman and a singer (who somehow finds the time to direct his own music videos).
We always had a float in the parades and we always went to the football and basketball games together and that made college more bearable.
On a weekday morning, a large water tanker lumbers through the quiet streets, past its football field and basketball court, and over to a carefully manicured private park where a couple are sprawled on the bright green grass.
And there's little chance that What Would Kenny Do? will be nearly as hopeless as 1997's Double Team, the film that consciously decided to buddy Jean-Claude Van Damme with green-haired basketball weirdo Dennis Rodman and make them battle a nonspecific international conspiracy by jumping out of an aeroplane and getting chased around by tigers.
The NCAA itself has criticised the law, as have former basketball players such as Charles Barkley and Jason Collins, the first openly gay athlete to play in the NBA.
Former professional basketball player Jason Collins, the first openly gay athlete to play in the NBA, tweeted: "@GovPenceIN, is it going to be legal for someone to discriminate against me & others when we come to the #FinalFour?" The LGBT Sports Coalition also called for the NCAA, the Big Ten, the NFL and USA Diving and USA Gymnastics to pull events from Indianapolis over the next 16 months.
The conference also is scheduled to hold its men's basketball tournament at Bankers Life Fieldhouse in Indianapolis in 2020 and 2022.
