basketball team
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1.1
- noun
- /ˈbæskɪtˌbɔl tim/
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equipo de baloncesto
- Narrator 1: The Tornado basketball team is practicing in the high school gym.
- play on a basketball team
- make the basketball team
- basketball team coach
And then the president and GM of that basketball team don't fire that coach the next year.
- And then the president and GM of that basketball team don't fire that coach the next year.
- No, we, we need you on the the basketball team.
- So it goes Jets, Knicks, random basketball team.
- We were playing against Holy Cross, which was, which was some other basketball team.
- For example, I could not whip a boxing champion or play basketball for an NBA basketball team or football for an NFL team.
- And so my whole goal as a kid was I had to make Crenshaw High School Crenshaw basketball team.
- So people may be familiar with the different positions on an American football team or basketball team, right?
- But most Catholic schools, particularly on the Eastern seaboard, all had outstanding basketball teams.
Examples
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My son plays for an AAU basketball team and half the kids on the team are white, the other half are black.
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Three months later, I was cut from the basketball team.
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Tell me your favorite basketball team, man.
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We do not even have a basketball team.
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In high school, she led her basketball team to one victory after another.
Fiction book (1998) -
I got thrown off the basketball team.
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- Did you know I'm on the basketball team?
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Many women were included among the hundreds of basketball teams representing schools, clubs, and workers.
Academic text (1994) -
We examined one Division I women's basketball team over the course of one season.
Academic text (1996) -
The coach announced that the whole basketball team would travel to the championship game together.
Synonyms
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A group of people who work together to reach a shared goal
How Competitive
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a group of players who play basketball' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'basketball' (the sport) with 'team' (a group of people). Noun–noun compounding denoting a group formed around an activity is a common, compositional pattern cross-linguistically, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily understand this phrase.
Etymology
Basketball team is a direct, literal phrase: a team of players who play basketball together. Imagine people passing the ball, training and playing as one unit; that picture explains why it means 'a group of players who play basketball together'.