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Bobby was Arizona State’s all-time basketball assist leader and used to take his son to the park to shoot baskets.
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Eric Sondheimer Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2021
Kota Benson was a rising basketball star on the Tohono O'Odham reservation, before COVID-19 derailed his basketball journey. COVID-19 shut down his sophomore season, a year in which Benson couldn't even get inside the Baboquivari High gymnasium in Sells to shoot baskets.
—Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 21 Feb. 2023
Sometimes Mazzulla would appear in McClanaghan’s office during bathroom breaks wearing his shirt, tie, and dress shoes, and ask to shoot baskets.
—Adam Himmelsbach, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Oct. 2022
Then the group visited the nearby Pueblo Del Rio housing project to shoot baskets with kids on dilapidated backboards featuring rims without nets.
—Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2022
At one end of the 1,086 foot-long building workers on break could shoot baskets.
—Michael E. Kanell, ajc, 9 June 2022
That first summer of 2018 at Saint Joseph’s old gym, Tyree Mitchell came to shoot baskets with Jackson, his former teammate.
—Dom Amore, courant.com, 19 Nov. 2021
And his two-and-half-year old son likes to play with trucks, shoot baskets at a mini-hoop, swing the Wiffle ball bat and participate in neighborhood kickball games.
—Tim Casey, Forbes, 9 Sep. 2021
Springstead, the mother of the volatile 15-year-old, stood under the shade near her porch recently, watching her son shoot baskets, then jump on the trampoline — attempts to burn off some energy.
—Robin Erb and Carter Barrett, Detroit Free Press, 2 July 2021
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Eric Sondheimer Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2021
Kota Benson was a rising basketball star on the Tohono O'Odham reservation, before COVID-19 derailed his basketball journey. COVID-19 shut down his sophomore season, a year in which Benson couldn't even get inside the Baboquivari High gymnasium in Sells to shoot baskets.
—Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 21 Feb. 2023
Sometimes Mazzulla would appear in McClanaghan’s office during bathroom breaks wearing his shirt, tie, and dress shoes, and ask to shoot baskets.
—Adam Himmelsbach, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Oct. 2022
Then the group visited the nearby Pueblo Del Rio housing project to shoot baskets with kids on dilapidated backboards featuring rims without nets.
—Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2022
At one end of the 1,086 foot-long building workers on break could shoot baskets.
—Michael E. Kanell, ajc, 9 June 2022
That first summer of 2018 at Saint Joseph’s old gym, Tyree Mitchell came to shoot baskets with Jackson, his former teammate.
—Dom Amore, courant.com, 19 Nov. 2021
And his two-and-half-year old son likes to play with trucks, shoot baskets at a mini-hoop, swing the Wiffle ball bat and participate in neighborhood kickball games.
—Tim Casey, Forbes, 9 Sep. 2021
Springstead, the mother of the volatile 15-year-old, stood under the shade near her porch recently, watching her son shoot baskets, then jump on the trampoline — attempts to burn off some energy.
—Robin Erb and Carter Barrett, Detroit Free Press, 2 July 2021
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