Definition of "basketball player" []

• A person who plays basketball, especially professionally. (noun)

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• "Everyone is here: Denzel, Van Damme, Snipes, and some rookie seven-foot-two-inch basketball player they call Shaq."
• "Tony Mahoney was a tall and blue-eyed basketball player who distinguished himself off the court by an interest in the theater."
• "He had been born in San Antonio, Texas, and he was nicknamed “Treetop” because he stood six feet seven inches and was a star basketball player at Texas A&M in the late 1950s."