Then there is the 18-foot-wide basketball hanging in the warm, spacious lobby, accurate right down to the 6,870 dimples -- a bit fanatic, but you get the point: this is a living museum with artifacts like a battered leather satchel from the old Indianapolis Kautskys, early semipro champs.
It may have taken the rapid rise of Knicks point guard Jeremy Lin to familiarize the wider basketball world with the idea of a Taiwanese-American point guard, but thriving Asian-American leagues have existed across the country for years.
He didn't say anything groundbreaking — racism still exists, was the message in miniature — but the wider basketball community of executives, coaches, players, and reporters all cheered him on, seemingly eager to have his words stand in for the league's self-conscious multicultural liberalism.
"Not just snowstorms, but good things blow in from Chicago," the mayor gratefully declared as the news delighted neighborhoods far and wide where basketball has long been the ultimate street game.
For a month and a half, LeBron James had the world of basketball wide-eyed and open-mouthed like no one before him.
"They got me yesterday," Anthony said, his smile stretched as wide as a basketball court.
Their silhouette is unmistakable: big brown body, wide as a basketball, and white head.
Landing on the floor as the ball dropped through the net, Duncan got up and ran toward the Spurs' bench, his eyes as wide as a basketball rim.
Mike Davis, a soft-spoken, mild-mannered man with a wide range of basketball experience, has taken over the team on an interim basis.
4. Pick a Winner I'm thinking this will be a wide open NCAA basketball tournament.
A blue line, 10 inches wide, awaited North Carolina basketball players at the arena's entrance each day before practice.
