Sentence examples for sort of basketball from inspiring English sources

But Butler's continued success may keep it from playing in a sort of basketball time capsule forever.

If turning the W.N.B.A. into a sort of basketball petri dish strikes one as perverse, such efforts are not without precedent.

But when they joined the Knicks in the prime of their careers, they assumed they had entered some sort of basketball utopia, where talent would always abound and where championship contention would be a given.

Many folks credit Johnson with devising the sort of basketball excitement that changed the game forever.

It was fair to assume the lack of a mascot was due more to lethargic and cruddy play and a franchise-wide culture of indifference than any sort of basketball's-sake temperance.

Four players, including three starters, come from Toronto and its suburbs – a sort of basketball-style Keystone XL pipeline.

Did Obama and his allies swear some sort of basketball-court oath, and then seize the White House?

But what if we put together a sort of exhibition basketball team to go over there?' " It has been called "basketball diplomacy" in the press since Mr. Rodman and company arrived — "and that was the actual idea," Mr. Smith added.

Baseball and football were by far the more popular sports, at least in Rye, where the sort of impromptu basketball games found in urban schoolyards were nonexistent.

Another, sort of, is "Basketball Wives," a VH1 reality show about the wives, ex-wives and girlfriends of N.B.A. players that was created by Shaunie O'Neal, the former wife of Shaquille O'Neal.

The Nets had just been burned for 11 consecutive points by the Detroit Pistons, they had already been called for two technical fouls and they had played the sort of sloppy basketball that cost Byron Scott, the team's previous coach, his job.