Sentence examples for turned basketball from inspiring English sources

MOSCOW (Reuters) — Gunmen shot dead a former K.G.B. agent turned basketball entrepreneur on Monday, law enforcement officials said.

There went Harvard, among the darlings of this N.C.A.A. tournament, a life powerhouse turned basketball underdog whose charmed appearance here ended on the wrong end of a blowout.

Brandon Jennings, the former high school star turned basketball trailblazer, signed a contract Wednesday to play in Italy's top professional league next season.

Dot-com impresario turned basketball bad boy now creating a small entertainment empire.

What do we make of a supposedly amateur enterprise that often turns basketball and football coaches in the middle and upper echelons into colleges' highest-paid employees?

Three that teachers at Randolph High School recommend from this week's Times are: In Bhutan, a bid to turn basketball from a royal sport to a national one.

So, is New York the new Cleveland, doomed to spend the ensuing years pining after its lost hero as he turns basketball tricks in another city?

The recent trend of turning basketball courts into multihued artwork can trace its roots back about 15 years, when colleges seized the floor as a medium for promoting both themselves and their corporate sponsors.

When the conversation turned to basketball, he was as energetic and opinionated as ever.

After his mother died, Jahlil turned to basketball as therapy, shooting for hours outdoors.

And when the questions turned to basketball, Thomas's demeanor quickly transformed from bubbly to sour.