The phrase 'basketball competition' is correct and usable in written English.You can use it to refer to any competition involving the sport of basketball for example, "The annual basketball competition is about to begin!"
Spain play their first match in the Olympic basketball competition against Greece at 7.30am BST today.
They turned instead to the Sydney Superdome, the site later this month of the Olympic gymnastics and basketball competition.
When fully engaged in basketball competition, Khalid El-Amin resembles an overflowing laundry hamper on wash day.
As the primary supplier of talent, Mr Cuban wants the revenues from international basketball competition to flow to the NBA instead of the International Olympic Committee.
And during the off-season, when he's back in China, he misses the level of basketball competition that he finds in the U.S. He's still between two worlds.
The schedule for the basketball competition at the London 2012 Olympics has been revealed, with Team GB missing out on a lucrative match with the United States.
"There are quite popular and similarly structured college basketball competitions that get good attendances and media coverage in Japan, South Korea, the Philippines, Canada and Mexico," Andrew Robotham of FIBA, international basketball's governing body, wrote in an e-mail.
But it also has a self-contained athletes' village serving 45,000 meals a day; a media center, complete with its own hair salon; 1,000 picnic benches and 4,000 garbage cans; endless pedestrian plazas and walkways over bridges; a newly landscaped green space flanking the newly unpolluted Lea River; and, for the basketball competitions, 600 basketballs.
This brought Mason to the front row of national wheelchair basketball competitions, international rugby tournaments, and even to the Paralympics.
In May he landed a contract with the new owners of London's 20,000-seat Millennium Dome, recently reopened (under the name The o2) and the future site of gymnastics and basketball competitions at the 2012 Olympics.
The participation subjects are athletes from basketball teams of the national divisional, and, 1st and 2nd regional divisional basketball competitions.
