LeBron James

Basketball is my passion, I love it. But my family and friends mean everything to me. That's what's important. I need my phone so I can keep in contact with them at all times.

American Basketball Player

Michael Jordan

When I lose the sense of motivation and the sense to prove something as a basketball player, it's time for me to move away from the game.

John Wooden

What you are as a person is far more important than what you are as a basketball player.

American Coach

Kyler Murray

I played baseball, football, basketball my whole life growing up.

American Football Player

Jayson Tatum

School was very important. But I needed to watch basketball.

American Athlete

Kyle Korver

I have a hard time imagining a life without basketball.

Paul Pierce

I've been talking basketball pretty much my whole life.

Fabolous

There's an art to basketball; there's a passion to it.

American Rapper

Kyle Kuzma

I've always been a self-motivated guy for basketball.

Isaiah Thomas

My greatest gift that I have in life is basketball.

Basketball is known worldwide, so mentioning it can connect you with people from many cultures.

Global Popularity

Refers to cooperation and camaraderie among players, often used metaphorically in other team contexts.

Team Spirit

Implies excitement and continuous movement, oftentimes used to describe a dynamic situation.

Action-Packed

Indicates necessary equipment for playing basketball and relates to preparation in other activities.

Sporting Gear

Emphasizing its shape, the term is often used to describe anything round like a basketball.

Spherical Object

Represents fun, leisure activities, or hobbies, signifying enjoyable pastimes like playing basketball.

Recreation Symbol

 There are already train stations that use passengers' footsteps to power the ticket gates and displays and a dance club where piezoelectricity helps power the lights. Could basketball players running back and forth power the scoreboard? Or might walking down the street charge your electronic devices? What's next for piezoelectricity?

How to squeeze...

 whether a pick-and-roll happened or not. It's that they want to know how it happened. And why is it so important to them? So here's a little insight. It turns out in modern basketball, this pick-and-roll is perhaps the most important play. And knowing how to run it, and knowing how to defend it,

The Math Behind...

 - Think there's a lot of parallels. I think basketball is a true art form. It's fluidity. It's almost like watching a ballet in a way, something beautiful. The arts, you're happy watching it unravel right in front of you. And life is that way. It's not a spectator sport, right?

Photography as...

 earth if I take earth and shrink it to the size of a basketball our life-support system our atmosphere is three human hairs thick as you see here so the inspiration to take our work back down to earth and we're all stewards of this planet please enjoy the view of the

How to create a space...

 where I'd sat a million times before and I was suicidal. I was suicidal, and if you were to look at my life on the surface, you wouldn't see a kid who was suicidal. You'd see a kid who was the captain of his basketball team, the drama and theater student of the year,

Why we need to talk...

 and we just met there for the first time in real life. I met with people that are supposed to be my enemies for the first time. And we just shake hands, and have a coffee and a nice discussion, and we talk about food and basketball. And that was the end of it.

Israel and Iran: A love...

 I was spending all of my time with these young men. We all ate meals together, played basketball together. I often called them gentlemen, which made them giggle. They blushed at the mention of girls. And I came to adore them.

This is what it's like...

 In just one summer, the nest reaches the size of a basketball, supporting thousands of workers. Such a large population needs to eat, and the nearby garden provides a veritable buffet.

Licking bees and pulping...

 to a bit larger than a basketball. Each polyp consists of a soft, saclike body topped by a mouth covered in stinging tentacles. To protect their soft bodies and add support,

Coral Reefs 101 PIPE...

 individual objects used in her stage show and that each one has a specific purpose but when asked to put an odd-shaped object in the basketball hoop