A person who plays basketball, especially professionally.(noun)
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Use "basketball player" in a sentence
"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."