Sentence examples for pickup against from inspiring English sources

Jordan Dumars has been a fixture at Pistons practices for years, playing pickup against Chauncey Billups and having Rasheed Wallace show him how to dunk.

After goalie Frederik Andersen played in 26 of 27 games, Ducks Coach Bruce Boudreau opted to start Ilya Bryzgalov, 34, an in-season free-agent pickup, against the Rangers.

She also plays with great assurance, having honed her skills largely in pickup games against men.

He had woken early that morning in Manchester to play a game of pickup basketball against kids from Southern New Hampshire University.

Smart, then an assistant under Don Nelson, noticed something in Lin's first pickup game against the Warriors' young stars, Stephen Curry and Monta Ellis.

He used to play pickup games against his teachers there; now he walks the sidelines, barking his favorite line to his players, "They don't do that in the N.B.A.!" Charles is a familiar figure in Brooklyn, where he lives, not because he played in the N.B.A., but because he is so involved in the community.

On DraftMix, fantasy sports fans can play single pickup games against each other for virtual dollars, with real money coming in the next couple of weeks.

The traffic jam cleared and Poore continued to drive, but at the top of a hill, the Town Car pinned their green pickup truck against another truck.