Sentence examples for knowledge of basketball from inspiring English sources

His knowledge of basketball went way past mine quite a few years ago.

He possessed an expansive knowledge of basketball in Europe and a wide array of contacts.

This is a testament to his greatness: so much of it is built on the unchangeable basis of his knowledge of basketball's nuances.

Once Phoenix decided it was as good as it was going to get and disbanded, Amar'e went to the Mecca -- New York (which is only the Mecca of basketball for people with very tertiary knowledge of basketball).

But in the parlance of coaches with far more experience and knowledge of college basketball, those teams, alas, were unlucky.

PISCATAWAY, N.J. — Gilvydas Biruta, a 6-foot-8 Lithuanian with exceptional leaping ability, landed in the United States two years ago with little knowledge of college basketball.

"The breadth of Ned's knowledge of college basketball and sports in general is amazing," said Masin, 55, the president of a company in Oyster Bay, N.Y., that supplies communications equipment to the military.

As for mine — well, if you think my bracket looks like something put together by a ten-year-old working with a person who has a sentimental attachment to New York and Western Pennsylvania but less knowledge of college basketball than she should, then you have very sharp eyes.

Even New Yorkers whose knowledge of professional basketball consists of a vague awareness that every 24 seconds or so 10 very tall men jump in the air found themselves caught up in a phenomenon that quickly came to be known as Linsanity.

However, within both groups no significant increase was found in students' knowledge of the basketball skills.

The charismatic young entrepreneur was instrumental in fine-tuning the shoe's design to improve its performance on the court, but he also had the gift of the gab, a knack for networking, and an impressive knowledge of the basketball industry.