How to Use point guard in a Sentence

point guard

noun

• The notion of relocating to the sport’s grandest stage was not without merit to the young point guard.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 10 Sep. 2022
• Mann, a second-round pick, has developed into a player who can defend point guards, shooting guards and small forwards.
  — Broderick Turner, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2024
• In many ways, this will be the telling season on his three-year contract, letting the Heat know if the great point guard search has to resume next summer.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 18 Sep. 2022
• Freshman point guard Desmond Claude has played well over the summer, according to coaches and his teammates.
  — The Enquirer, 22 Sep. 2022
• Daishen Nix this season and also used a first round pick to draft point guard TyTy Washington.
  — Rahat Huq, Chron, 19 Sep. 2022
• The former Toledo point guard signed a three-year, $4.8 million contract in July, and the first two years of the deal are fully guaranteed.
  — C.j. Holmes, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Sep. 2022
• The Lakers are reuniting with another former member of the team, this time signing point guard Dennis Schroder on Friday.
  — Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2022
• The team should go as far as the point guard takes them.
  — Jacob Steinberg, Baltimore Sun, 11 Apr. 2024
• In that game, Boston, the Bullis point guard, more than held his own.
  — Billy Witz, New York Times, 29 June 2023
• The 6-foot point guard plays with springs in his shoes and can score from anywhere.
  — Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 18 Jan. 2024
• Rudolph is the point guard, the guy who runs the show, the player Haupt relies on to get things right.
  — John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Nov. 2022
• Your job is just to be the point guard (as a quarterback).
  — Alexis Cubit, The Courier-Journal, 9 Oct. 2022
• The Nuggets were in need of a backup point guard, and Westbrook fits that bill.
  — Broderick Turner, Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2024
• The drive to better his craft is what motivates the 6-foot-2 point guard.
  — Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 5 Apr. 2023
• The 30-year-old point guard suffered a left high ankle sprain in the second game of the year May 17.
  — Kareem Copeland, Washington Post, 26 June 2024
• At the heart of it was Carter, the team’s top scorer, and senior point guard Colin Guenther.
  — Luca Evans, Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2023
• Ja Morant, the 23-year-old star point guard for the Memphis Grizzlies, was barely 1 year old.
  — A. Joseph Dial, Fortune, 25 June 2023
• The Aces point guard Chelsea Gray, with her audacious passing, was the fulcrum of it all.
  — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 15 Oct. 2023
• So, Lillard, who has entered his fair share of zones, did what a good point guard does.
  — oregonlive, 25 Oct. 2022
• Starwood and senior point guard Bryce Shoto each had 3-pointers in a 10-4 spurt to open the quarter for the Wolves.
  — Rick Armstrong, Chicago Tribune, 3 Feb. 2023
• On the very next inbounds play, Drew called a play for the junior point guard, who came through with a clutch basket.
  — Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 23 Nov. 2022
• Though both sides entered the matchup ranked as top-five teams, each was missing its star point guard.
  — Lila Bromberg, Hartford Courant, 15 Nov. 2022
• Second-year point guard Jaden Hardy led the team with 24 points and 31 minutes played and put up six rebounds.
  — Brice Paterik, Dallas News, 8 July 2023
• And, of course, the 6-foot-3 point guard has been the centerpiece of the Hammond Central boys basketball team.
  — Michael Osipoff, Chicago Tribune, 7 Apr. 2023
• The game’s best passer, a title once reserved for point guards, is a center.
  — Robert O’Connell, WSJ, 27 Nov. 2023
• In 2022, Jalen signed with the Knicks, where he’s been the point guard (and under his dad’s direction) ever since.
  — Alex Ross, Peoplemag, 16 June 2024
• Pacers president Kevin Pritchard has said as much, and the 22-year-old point guard is ready to embrace the role.
  — Matthew Vantryon, The Indianapolis Star, 26 Sep. 2022
• Killian Hayes has started the past four games at point guard and has played well after a poor start to the season.
  — Detroit Free Press, 19 Nov. 2022
• The point guard out of Marietta, Ga., was a consensus top-five player in the class of 2025.
  — Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 3 Oct. 2024
• The Nuggets’ star point guard signed a four-year, $208.5 million extension after an up-and-down summer that concluded with a sub-par showing at the Paris Olympics.
  — Aaron Ontiveroz, The Denver Post, 19 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 3 Nov 2024