Definitions for basketball team
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Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. basketball team, fivenoun

   a team that plays basketball

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1. basketball team

   Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball (approximately 9.4 inches (24 cm) in diameter) through the defender's hoop (a basket 18 inches (46 cm) in diameter mounted 10 feet (3.048 m) high to a backboard at each end of the court), while preventing the opposing team from shooting through their own hoop. A field goal is worth two points, unless made from behind the three-point line, when it is worth three. After a foul, timed play stops and the player fouled or designated to shoot a technical foul is given one, two or three one-point free throws. The team with the most points at the end of the game wins, but if regulation play expires with the score tied, an additional period of play (overtime) is mandated. Players advance the ball by bouncing it while walking or running (dribbling) or by passing it to a teammate, both of which require considerable skill. On offense, players may use a variety of shots – the layup, the jump shot, or a dunk; on defense, they may steal the ball from a dribbler, intercept passes, or block shots; either offense or defense may collect a rebound, that is, a missed shot that bounces from rim or backboard. It is a violation to lift or drag one's pivot foot without dribbling the ball, to carry it, or to hold the ball with both hands then resume dribbling. The five players on each side fall into five playing positions. The tallest player is usually the center, the second-tallest and strongest is the power forward, a slightly shorter but more agile player is the small forward, and the shortest players or the best ball handlers are the shooting guard and the point guard, who implements the coach's game plan by managing the execution of offensive and defensive plays (player positioning). Informally, players may play three-on-three, two-on-two, and one-on-one. Invented in 1891 by Canadian-American gym teacher James Naismith in Springfield, Massachusetts, in the United States, basketball has evolved to become one of the world's most popular and widely viewed sports. The National Basketball Association (NBA) is the most significant professional basketball league in the world in terms of popularity, salaries, talent, and level of competition. Outside North America, the top clubs from national leagues qualify to continental championships such as the EuroLeague and the Basketball Champions League Americas. The FIBA Basketball World Cup and Men's Olympic Basketball Tournament are the major international events of the sport and attract top national teams from around the world. Each continent hosts regional competitions for national teams, like EuroBasket and FIBA AmeriCup. The FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup and Women's Olympic Basketball Tournament feature top national teams from continental championships. The main North American league is the WNBA (NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Championship is also popular), whereas the strongest European clubs participate in the EuroLeague Women.

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1. basketball team

   A basketball team is a group of players, usually consisting of five on-court players and additional substitute players on the bench, who compete together under the same logo or team name in the sport of basketball. The team follows leadership from a head coach and potentially assistant coaches. The goal of a basketball team is to score more points than their opposing team by shooting the basketball into the opponent's hoop. Team members work together, following a specific strategy and using various skills such as dribbling, passing, defending, and shooting to win games.

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1. basketball team

   A number of people united as a team to play the sport of basketball at a specific level.

   Our community basketball team play in a county league and aspire to win the county finals.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on December 11, 2015  

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of basketball team in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of basketball team in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of basketball team in a Sentence

1. Ralph Kiner:

   George Shinn. He's the owner of the Charlotte Harlots basketball team.

2. Jen Hoover:

   They’re phenomenal basketball team, when you’ve got that many McDonald’s All-Americans and you’re bringing them off the bench, unfortunately today, when we had to sub, they were able to turn it up. And we didn’t respond well to that.

3. Jerry Colangelo:

   This is the first step in USA Basketball identifying the 12 players who will represent the United States as members of the 2020 U.S. Olympic men's basketball team in Tokyo, over the course of the remainder of the NBA season we'll continue to monitor all of the athletes.

4. Max Stern:

   We can not help but think it not coincidental that the decision by Yale University officials to seek expulsion of the captain of Yale University basketball team followed by little more than a month the report of the Association of American Universities( AAU) which was highly critical of the incidence of sexual assault on the Yale University campus, and the Yale University President's promise, in response, to' redouble our efforts,' from what appears, Jack Montague has been pilloried as a' whipping boy' for a campus problem that has galvanized national attention.

5. Amy Oakes:

   She's playing on the basketball team now, she's involved in theatre -- things that she wasn't able to do because her behaviors prohibited her from doing them, i really felt very hopeless, before we found Brain Balance, so the fact that I just have hopes for her now is a beautiful thing, and I think she can do anything she wants to do.

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=basketball team
2. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basketball_Team
3. ^ ChatGPT
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