Basketball

Basketball

Terms of or pertaining to the game of basketball which involves two teams of five players trying to work together to accumulate points by shooting or dunking a ball through a basket. The team with the most points by the end of the game wins.

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Sports; Basketball

A popularly emphatic oral term used in basketball when an offensive player makes a basket in the process of being fouled. The term refers to the one free throw the offensive player is awarded as a ...

Swish

Sports; Basketball

A basketball term used to refer to a perfectly made basketball jump shot that cleanly falls through the basket without touching the rim.

Brick

Sports; Basketball

A slang term used in basketball to refer to a badly missed shot.

Role player

Sports; Basketball

A type of player who blends in with the team and has specific strengths, and most likely weaknesses as well. They understand their exact role with the team and every good basketball team has various ...

Spot-up shooter

Sports; Basketball

A player on the court who excells at simply catching and shooting the basketball from directly the spot in which they are passed the ball.

A bomb

Sports; Basketball

An extremely deep basketball shot several feet beyond the three point line. Usually attempted by a player who has the ability to make such long shots, but definitely not a preferred shot by the ...

Caron Butler

Sports; Basketball

An American professional basketball player (small forward, 6'7) who plays for the Los Angeles Clippers in the NBA. Butler was a lottery pick in the 2002 NBA Draft, selected with the 10th overall ...