Word: backboard
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...HUPD responded to a Malkin Athletic Center call to aid in medical emergency. A diver had landed on a man in the pool. The subject was transported to the hospital on a backboard...
...shot, or "throw," as my girlfriend would say, bounced off the backboard and swished through...
Jackson, a former Knick, also had 11 assists, but they all came in the first three quarters. He was busy in the fourth quarter beating Charlie Ward one-on-one, making his familiar no-backboard layups and sticking a pair of jumpers that twice deflated New York rallies...
...like moment. After letting UConn win the tipoff, the opposing Villanova players stood silently on their side as a player ceremoniously dribbled the ball to the basket and handed it to the flat-footed Sales, who finished the stilted pas de deux by banking an ugly one off the backboard; then Villanova evened the game with an uncontested shot of its own. The backstage maneuverings were even more contrived. Geno Auriemma, UConn's coach, devised the stunt, then suggested it to his buddy, Villanova coach Harry Perretta. The two coaches cleared it with their athletic directors and university presidents...
...confrontation came seconds after Mitch Richmond's desperation three-pointer hit off the backboard, bounced off the front of the rim and fell out, sending the Kings to their fifth straight loss in a game where they held an 18-point first-half lead...