| Basketball player who was part of Time Magazine's 2012 "Top 100 Most Influential People in the World" | 115 |
| Basketball player who's popular at breakfast? | 49 |
| Basketball player's application | 35 |
| Basketball player's credo? | 30 |
| Basketball player's grab | 28 |
| Basketball player's maneuver | 32 |
| Basketball player's stat | 28 |
| Basketball player, in old slang | 31 |
| Basketball players | 18 |
| Basketball plays | 16 |
| Basketball ploy | 15 |
| Basketball pos. | 15 |
| Basketball position | 19 |
| Basketball position: Abbr. | 26 |
| Basketball powerunder John Wooden | 34 |
| Basketball power under John Wooden | 34 |
| Basketball recruiter's consideration | 40 |
| BASKETBALL REFEREE | 18 |
| Basketball rim | 14 |
| Basketball rim attachment | 25 |
| Basketball rim attachments | 26 |
| Basketball rims | 15 |
| Basketball score | 16 |
| Basketball scoreboard nos. | 26 |
| Basketball scores | 17 |
| Basketball scoring attempts that are difficult to block | 55 |
| Basketball scoring play | 23 |
| Basketball shoe | 15 |
| Basketball shooting game | 24 |
| Basketball shot | 15 |
| Basketball shots | 16 |
| Basketball showman | 18 |
| Basketball sportscaster Dick | 28 |
| Basketball squad, e.g. | 22 |
| Basketball stadium | 18 |
| Basketball star | 15 |
| Basketball star Brand | 21 |
| Basketball star Bryant | 22 |
| Basketball star Maravich | 24 |
| Basketball star nicknamed "The Big Baryshnikov" | 57 |
| Basketball star Patrick | 23 |
| Basketball star Shaquille | 25 |
| Basketball star turned so-called diplomat | 41 |
| Basketball star, often | 22 |
| Basketball stat | 15 |
| Basketball stat unit | 20 |
| Basketball stat. | 16 |
| Basketball statistic | 20 |
| Basketball stats | 16 |
| Basketball stratagem | 20 |
| Basketball strategy | 19 |
| Basketball tactic | 17 |
| Basketball target | 17 |
| Basketball targets | 18 |
| Basketball team | 15 |
| Basketball team in need of a shower? | 36 |
| Basketball team on a record losing pace in 2010 | 47 |
| Basketball team owned in part by Jay-Z | 38 |
| Basketball team slated to move to Brooklyn, eventually | 54 |
| Basketball team that publicly protested Arizona's immigration laws in 2010 | 78 |
| Basketball team whose members are always summarizing things? | 60 |
| Basketball team whose members have pet macaws? | 46 |
| Basketball team, e.g. | 21 |
| Basketball teams | 16 |
| Basketball timeout sign | 23 |
| Basketball tour de force | 24 |
| Basketball tourn. | 17 |
| Basketball tourn. letters | 25 |
| Basketball tourn. won by N. C.: 1993 | 36 |
| Basketball tournament at MSG | 28 |
| Basketball tournament souvenirs | 31 |
| Basketball tournaments | 22 |
| Basketball tourney: Abbr. | 25 |
| Basketball two-hander | 21 |
| Basketball two-handers | 22 |
| Basketball venue | 16 |
| Basketball venues | 17 |
| Basketball victory souvenir | 27 |
| Basketball violation or, with a comma, "repulsive" | 60 |
| Basketball violations | 21 |
| Basketball VIP | 14 |
| Basketball ___ | 14 |
| Basketball's "Chocolate Thunder" | 46 |
| Basketball's "Clown Prince" | 41 |
| Basketball's "sixth man" | 38 |
| Basketball's "sixth man," e.g. | 44 |
| Basketball's "Wilt the ___" | 41 |
| Basketball's Alcindor | 25 |
| Basketball's Archibald | 26 |
| Basketball's Archibald injured the Dalai Lama, palindromically | 66 |
| Basketball's Baylor | 23 |
| Basketball's Bell | 21 |
| Basketball's Bill | 21 |
| Basketball's Chamberlain | 28 |
| Basketball's Dennis | 23 |
| Basketball's Erving, familiarly | 35 |
| Basketball's Harper | 23 |
| Basketball's Holman | 23 |
| Basketball's inflatable lining | 34 |
| Basketball's Irving, familiarly | 35 |