Jalen Brunson

I just feel like there's a lot of things more important than just basketball, and I love basketball. It's what I want to do for the longest time possible. It's what I eat, it's what I sleep about, it's what I breathe, it's in my lifestyle. I just really feel like there's more important things than just putting the ball in the hoop.

American Athlete

Kim Dickens

When you're guest-starring on another show, it really requires you to jump through hoops in a way, because you're servicing the stories of the main characters. You have to be able to portray a lot of different elements. You show up and get on board and get on their journey; you have to be flexible as to what they need for the role.

American Actress

C. J. McCollum

We don't have those bougie, not-into-it, wouldn't-be-caught-dead-in-the-free-t-shirt hoops fans in Portland. We've got those pinwheel-tattooed, bleeding-red-and-black, still-rocking-that-Walton-jersey, ride-or-die, realer-than-real hoops fans in Portland. The love is real. The support is real.

Lena Waithe

Wearing one hoop earring and playing with the androgyny - that's who I am. That's what I like to do. And I feel the world should see that. I'm not going to put a shield up or be more feminine to make people feel comfortable.

J. R. Smith

Coach Lue always amazed me. I'm like, 'How do you have this much joy coming out of life? You have money, but you don't drink; you don't smoke. All you do is hoop, and you live on a natural high.' But now I know.

Lil B

I have a song that's called 'Rap Dreams, Hoop Dreams'. Besides education, everybody's got hoop dreams from day one in rap. Rap, sports, music have so much of an impact on the world.

American Musician

Caris LeVert

What I can't wait to show the world when I make my NBA debut is a player who can handle, shoot, go hard to the hoop, and defend.

American Basketball Player

Jimmy Butler

I just wanna hoop and be out there with my soldiers. Go to war. Try to, to the best of my abilities, help us win.

Kit Williams

She's not happy about the life she is living but to jump through the hoop would mean to succumb to death.

Author

Adam Sandler

Sixth grade was a big time, in my childhood, of hoops and friendship, and coming up with funny things.

American Actor

Hoops are often associated with children's playthings or light-hearted activities.

Playful Object

Hoop earrings are common in fashion and can vary greatly in size.

Jewelry Piece

In basketball, 'hoop' can refer to the entire goal including the backboard.

Basketball Gear

The action of putting the ball through the hoop is central to basketball.

Scoring Action

Hoops are critical in giving barrels their strength and shape.

Barrel Construction

Metal hoops in carpentry are less common now but have historical significance.

Historical Use

To hoop something means to create a circle around it, often for containment or decoration.

Encircling Action

The idiom implies doing something difficult or many things to achieve a goal.

Effortful Task

This idiom often expresses frustration at having to meet many requirements.

Frustration Expression

 where we made a piece about a tall giraffe. It was just called "Tall Horse," which was a life-sized giraffe. And here again, you see the same structure. The bulkheads have now turned into hoops of cane, but it's ultimately the same structure. It's got two people inside it on stilts, which give them the height,

The genius puppetry...

 things that we can do with either high speed video or like I said that particular basketball has a ray of sensors in it that allows us to make those measurements but you can also make those measurements on paper like I said going back to this equation is so let's say you're out shooting hoops and you're

Things you learned in...

 it may be worldly out of fashion in europe and north america now but like hoop skirts and top hats cousin marriage used to be a much more common sight people like charles darwin edgar allan poe and albert einstein all married their first cousins president franklin delano roosevelt married his fifth

Is it really that bad to...

 task accomplishing and it's putting a round object into that hoop and so it's a very specific concept she has of what's supposed to be going on here okay now this ability to recognize shapes and textures helps explain her stage finale spelling out the word ham from the alphabet

Nelly the Clever Pig PIPE...

 A series of hoops are created out of willow wood, and they're threaded together to create formations of the natural world, showing the many beauties of life. In this dance, you're circling in a constant spin, mimicking the movement of the Sun and the passage of time.

Why do I make art? To...

 while the robot is calculating the position of the hoop, and trying to figure out how to best go through the hoop. So as an academic, we're always trained to be able to jump through hoops to raise funding for our labs, and we get our robots to do that.

Robots that fly ... and...

 And so the kids are raised in a certain way, jumping through achievement hoops of the things we can measure -- SAT prep, oboe, soccer practice. They get into competitive colleges, they get good jobs, and sometimes they make a success of themselves

David Brooks: The social...

 there you go finding schools in World Financial Center windows are taller than a basketball hoop and weigh as much as three grand pianos add these Heights wrestling with weights like that can be

Constructing the...

 They’ve passed every test, cleared every hurdle, jumped through every hoop. Now, all that remains is to unleash them on the world.

Why good ideas get...

 her life our team removed the hoop from her mouth