Sentence examples for breaking the backboard from inspiring English sources

"I don't want anybody breaking the backboard.

SPORTS An article on Friday about the 25th anniversary of the ESPN announcer Bill Raftery's famous "Send it in, Jerome!" call referred incorrectly to the role of ESPN's studio in Bristol, Conn., during a 32-minute delay after Pittsburgh's Jerome Lane broke the backboard on a dunk in a basketball game against Providence.

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During that most lionized of American sporting events, a slam-dunk contest, he breaks the glass backboard and violently acts out in a way that indicates there is no good end in store for him or any of this.

That's how the last one broke" That useless backboard sits in her weed-covered backyard, next to a now-obsolete sign that reads, "Play Street No Parking 8 to 8".

"Dr. J" Julius Erving popularized this poster dunk, as well as Darryl Dawkins, who broke several backboards tomahawk dunking.

Think of it as a fast break, with Harry Reid throwing one off the backboard for Obama to jam home.

El-Amin also did not have an assist in the first half, but he broke that drought with a flourish by banking an alley-oop pass off the backboard to Doug Wrenn for a dunk on a fast break.

Apparently, the off-the-backboard dunk was planned.

Wade said that he and LeBron had discussed the off-the-backboard pass for a dunk.

He threw down ferocious dunks, growled at the crowd, left the backboard support violently shaking, as if some young vandal had broken into the gymnasium overnight and hung on the rim with four friends until it bent.