professional basketball

Definitions of professional basketball
  1. noun
    playing basketball for money
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    type of:
    sport
    the occupation of athletes who compete for pay
    basketball, basketball game, hoops
    a game played on a court by two opposing teams of 5 players; points are scored by throwing the ball through an elevated horizontal hoop
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