professional basketball

Noun

Meaning

playing basketball for money

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

basketball player

Hypernyms

sport basketball hoops basketball game

Examples

I would rather go to Baghdad than go to a professional basketball game. Don Imus

There have been players with Indian heritage, but there hasn't been a Native-American professional basketball player who became a regular for all sorts of social and political reasons. Sherman Alexie

You have to be wired a certain way to be a professional basketball player, and the way my body grew, something happened genetically that allowed me to become a lot more explosive. Jeremy Lin

Close letter words and terms

professional background professional ballplayer professional baseball professional behaviour professional boxing professional cheater