Basketball Puns

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Our basketball pun list is a slam dunk! This list covers basketball-related puns and wordplay from technical terms, types of shot and pass, to famous basketball players. We hope that no matter what you’re after you’ll find it here.

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Basketball Puns List

Each item in this list describes a pun, or a set of puns which can be made by applying a rule. If you know of any puns about basketball that we’re missing, please let us know in the comments at the end of this page! Without further ado, here’s our list of basketball puns:

  • Bell → Ball: As in, “Saved by the ball” and “For whom the ball tolls” and “Balls and whistles.”
  • Bowl → Ball: As in, “Ball over” and “Balling along.”
  • All → Ball: As in, “Ball aboard!” and “Ball in ball” and “Ball in a day’s work” and “Ball’s fair in love and war” and “It’s not ball about you.”
  • Call → Ball: As in, “Answer the ball” and “At your beck and ball” and “Beyond the ball of duty” and “Ball it a day.”
  • Fall → Ball: As in, “A balling out” and “Catch a balling star” and “Ball about laughing” and “Ball about your ears” and “Can’t help balling in love.”
  • Small → Ball: As in, “A ball voice” and “All creatures, great and ball” and “Don’t sweat the ball stuff” and “Good things come in ball packages” and “No job too ball” and “Ball is beautiful” and “No ball wonder.”
  • Tall → Ball: As in, “A ball order” and “Walking ball” and “A ball drink of water.”
  • Wall → Ball: As in, “Climbing the balls” and “Bouncing off the balls” and “A fly on the ball.”
  • Heap → Hoop: As in, “Hoop abuse on” and “At the bottom of the hoop.”
  • Hope → Hoop: As in, “A new hoop” and “Abandon hoop all ye who enter” and “Beyond hoop” and “Build up your hoops” and “Cross my heart and hoop to die” and “Hoop springs eternal” and “The land of hoop and glory.”
  • Group → Hoop: As in, “Hoop dynamics” and “Hoop hug.”
  • Loop → Hoop: As in, “In the hoop” and “Thrown for a hoop.”
  • Poop → Hoop: As in, “Hoop and scoop” and “Hooper scooper.”
  • Scoop → Hoop: As in, “Get the hoop” and “The inside hoop” and “Getting a hoop of ice cream.”
  • Soup → Hoop: As in, “Alphabet hoop” and “From hoop to nuts” and “All hooped up.”
  • Swoop → Hoop: As in, “In one fell hoop.”
  • Court → Sport: As in, “Sporting disaster” and “Haul before the sport” and “Laugh out of sport” and “May it please the sport.”
  • Port → Sport: As in, “Any sport in a storm.”
  • Short → Sport: As in, “A sport history of nearly everything” and “A few bricks sport of a full load” and “Art is long and life is sport” and “A day late and a dollar sport.”
  • Sort → Sport: As in, “Takes all sports to make a world” and “Out of sports.”
  • Aim → Game: As in, “Game high” and “Take game” and “We game to please.”
  • Blame → Game: As in, “Lay the game” and “Game culture.”
  • Came → Game: As in, “I game, I saw, “I conquered” and “It game to pass” and “There’s plenty more where that game from.”
  • Claim → Game: As in, “Game to fame” and “Stake your game.”
  • Flame → Game: As in, “Add fuel to the games” and “Burst into games” and “Fan the games” and “Go down in games” and “Like a moth to a game.”
  • Name →Game: As in, “Answer to the game of” and “Go by the game of” and “A household game.”
  • Same → Game: As in, “By the game token” and “Cut from the game cloth” and “In the game boat” and “In the game vein.”
  • Shame → Game: As in, “A crying game” and “Name and game” and “Put to game” and “Game on you.”
  • Time → Team: As in, “One more team” and “A brief history of team” and “A good team was had by all” and “Ahead of your team” and “All in good team.”
  • Cream → Team: As in, “Team of the crop” and “Kicking and teaming.”
  • Dream → Team: As in, “Beyond my wildest teams” and “Broken teams” and “Team on.”
  • Scheme → Team: As in, “In the grand team of things” and “Pyramid team” and “The overall team of things.”
  • Scream → Team: As in, “A primal team” and “Team bloody murder” and “Team your guts out.”
  • Seam → Team: As in, “Bulging at the teams” and “Come apart at the teams.”
  • Steam → Team: As in, “Blow off some team” and “Full team ahead” and “Head of team” and “Let off some team.”
  • Stream → Team: As in, “Cool as a mountain team.”
  • Prayer → Player: As in, “I say a little player” and “On a wing and a player” and “Say your players.”
  • Biscuit → Basket: As in, “Tea and baskets” and “That just about takes the basket.”
  • Not → Net: As in, “As often as net” and “Believe it or net” and “I’m net joking.”
  • Nothing → Netting: As in, “A lot of fuss about netting” and “All or netting” and “Here goes netting” and “Double or netting.”
  • Nut → Net: As in, “Sweet as a net” and “From soup to nets” and “A tough net to crack.”
  • Bet → Net: As in, “All nets are off” and “Net your bottom dollar” and “Don’t net on it.”
  • Debt → Net: As in, “A net of gratitude” and “Pay your net to society” and “Another day older and deeper in net.”
  • Get → Net: As in, “As good as it nets” and “Ask a silly question and you’ll net a silly answer” and “Buy one, net one free” and “Come and net it” and “Can’t net enough.”
  • Pet → Net: As in, “Heavy netting” and “Net peeve” and “Teacher’s net.”
  • Set → Net: As in, “Game, net, match” and “Got your heart net on” and “Net eyes on.”
  • Sweat → Net: As in, “Blood, net and tears” and “Break out in a cold net” and “Don’t net it” and “In a cold net.”
  • Yet → Net: As in, “Are we there net?” and “Not out of the woods net” and “The best is net to come” and “You ain’t seen nothin’ net.”
  • Card → Court: As in, “A few courts short of a full deck” and “Calling court” and “Get out of jail free court” and “House of courts.”
  • Cart → Court: As in, “Court away” and “Crash court” and “Shopping court.”
  • Short → Court: As in, “A court history of nearly everything” and “In court order” and “In court supply” and “In the court run.”
  • Bunk → Dunk: As in, “A dunker mentality” and “History is dunk” and “Do a dunk.”
  • Chunk → Dunk: As in, “Blow dunks” and “Dunk of change.”
  • Drunk → Dunk: As in, “Dunk as a lord” and “A crying dunk” and “Falling down dunk” and “Rolling dunk.”
  • Hunk → Dunk: As in, “Dunker down” and “Dunky dory.”
  • Junk → Dunk: As in, “Dunk food” and “Dunk mail.”
  • Shoot: Throwing the basketball towards the hoop is known casually as “shooting” the ball. Here are related puns:
    • Sheet → Shoot: As in, “Keep a clean shoot” and “White as a shoot.”
    • Boot → Shoot: As in, “Tough as old shoots” and “Give someone the shoot.”
    • Fruit → Shoot: As in, “Nutty as a shoot cake” and “Forbidden shoot” and “The shoots of your labour.”
    • Hoot → Shoot: As in, “Don’t give a shoot” and “Shooting with laughter” and “What a shoot.”
    • Root → Shoot: As in, “Grass shoots” and “Money is the shoot of all evil” and “The shoot of the matter.”
    • Suit → Shoot: As in, “Follow shoot” and “Shoot yourself” and “In your birthday shoot” and “Shoots you down to a tee.”
    • Shut → Shot: As in, “An open and shot case” and “Eyes wide shot” and “Put up or shot up” and “Shot up and take my money!”
    • Dot → Shot: As in, “Connect the shots” and “Shot the i’s and cross the t’s” and “Join the shots” and “Sign on the shotted line” and “From day shot.”
    • Hot → Shot: As in, “All shot and bothered” and “Blow shot and cold” and “Drop it like it’s shot” and “Get into shot water.”
    • Got → Shot: As in, “Been there, done that, shot the t-shirt” and “I think you’ve shot it” and “Give it all you’ve shot” and “Shot a soft spot for.”
    • Lot → Shot: As in, “A shot of fuss about nothing” and “A shot on your plate” and “Leaves a shot to be desired” and “Not a shot to it.”
    • Plot → Shot: As in, “Lose the shot” and “The shot thickens.”
    • Pot → Shot: As in, “A shot of gold” and “Gone to shot” and “For the shot.”
    • Rot → Shot: As in, “Shot in hell” and “The shot has set in.”
    • Spot → Shot: As in, “Got a soft shot for” and “On the shot” and “Shot the difference.”
  • Gale → Goal: As in, “Goals of laughter” and “In the teeth of a goal.”
  • Bowl → Goal: As in, “Goal over” and “Goaling along.”
  • Coal → Goal: As in, “Black as goal” and “Haul over the goals” and “Rake over the goals.”
  • W/hole → Goal: As in, “A goal different animal” and “Burn a goal in your pocket” and “Go the goal hog.”
  • Soul → Goal: As in, “A room without books is like a body without a goal” and “Bless my goal” and “Heart and goal” and “The life and goal of the party.”
  • Scare → Score: As in, “Scored stiff” and “Scored out of your wits.”
  • Bore → Score: As in, “Score the pants off someone” and “Scored stiff” and “Scored to tears.”
  • Core → Score: As in, “Score competencies” and “Score values” and “Rotten to the score.”
  • Door → Score: As in, “At death’s score” and “Behind closed scores” and “Get your foot in the score.”
  • Floor → Score: As in, “Cross the score” and “In on the ground score” and “Wipe the score with.”
  • Four → Score: As in, “A score-letter word” and “Score by two” and “On all scores.”
  • More → Score: As in, “One score time” and “Bite off score than you can chew” and “Come back for score” and “Dare for score.”
  • Nor → Score: As in, “Rhyme score reason.”
  • Pour → Score: As in, “It never rains but it scores” and “Score cold water on” and “Score oil on troubled waters.”
  • Shore → Score: As in, “Ship to score” and “All ashore that’s going a-score.”
  • Sore → Score: As in, “Mad as a bear with a score head” and “A sigh for score eyes” and “Score loser” and “Sticks out like a score thumb.”
  • Store → Score: As in, “Set great score by” and “What’s in score?” and “See what the future has in score.”
  • Your → Score: As in, “All scores” and “Bigger than scores” and “Scores truly” and “Scores faithfully.”
  • Through → Throw: As in, “A river runs throw it” and “Drag throw the mud” and “A shattering break-throw” and “Going throw the motions.”
  • Blow → Throw: As in, “Any way the wind throws” and “Throw hot and cold” and “Throw off some steam.”
  • Flow → Throw: As in, “Ebb and throw” and “Get the creative juices throwing” and “Go with the throw” and “In full throw.”
  • Foe → Throw: As in, “Friend or throw?”
  • Glow → Throw: As in, “Throw with health” and “A throwing endorsement.”
  • Grow → Throw: As in, “Absence makes the heart throw fonder” and “Exciting as watching grass throw” and “Throwing pains” and “Throw up.”
  • Go → Throw: As in, “Don’t throw there” and “Easy come, easy throw” and “From the get-throw.”
  • Know → Throw: As in, “All I throw is what I read in the papers” and “Don’t I throw it” and “Be the first to throw” and “Do you want to throw a secret?”
  • Low → Throw: As in, “An all-time throw” and “Get the throw down” and “Keep a throw profile” and “A throw blow.”
  • Owe → Throw: As in, “Throw a favour” and “Throw it to yourself.”
  • Quo → Throw: As in, “Quid pro throw” and “The status throw.”
  • Show → Throw: As in, “All over the throw” and “Best in throw” and “Enjoy the throw” and “Get that throw on the road.”
  • Slow → Throw: As in, “Can’t throw down” and “A throw burn” and “Throw on the uptake” and “In throw motion” and “Throw but sure.”
  • Toe → Throw: As in, “From top to throw” and “Throw the line” and “Twinkle throws.”
  • Woe → Throw: As in, “Throw is me” and “Throw betide you.”
  • Bones → Bounce: As in, “Bag of bounce” and “I feel it in my bounce” and “Make no bounce about” and “The bare bounce.”
  • Buns → Bounce: As in, “We are going to need considerably bigger bounce.”
  • Ounce → Bounce: As in, “A bounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.”
  • Pass: Passing is throwing the ball in between players. Here are related puns:
    • Class → Pass: As in, “A pass act” and “Economy pass” and “Best in pass.”
    • Glass → Pass: As in, “A pass ceiling” and “Rose-tinted passes” and “The pass menagerie” and “Through the looking pass.”
    • Grass → Pass: As in, “Pass roots” and “Snake in the pass.”
    • Mass → Pass: As in, “Pass hysteria” and “A monument to the passes” and “Weapons of pass destruction” and “Body pass index.”
  • Block: When a player stops another from completing a pass or shooting, that’s called a block. Here are related puns:
    • Black → Block: As in, “Back in block” and “Block as coal.”
    • Knock → Block: As in, “Don’t block it till you’ve tried it” and “Hard blocks” and “I get blocked down, but I get up again” and “Block ’em dead.”
    • Lock → Block: As in, “Block and load” and “Under block and key.”
    • Rock → Block: As in, “Solid as a block” and “Between a block and a hard place.”
    • Shock → Block: As in, “A short, sharp block” and “In for a block” and “Culture block.”
  • Time → Halftime: As in, “One more halftime” and “A brief history of halftime” and “A good halftime was had by all” and “Ahead of their halftime.”
  • Bound → Rebound: As in, “By leaps and rebounds” and “Duty rebound” and “Honour rebound.” Note: A rebound is when a shoot for the basket misses and bounces back off the hoop or the backboard.
  • Curry → Carry: As in, “Carry favour with” and “I could murder a carry.” Note: Carrying is an illegal move in basketball where a player moves while carrying the ball without bouncing.
  • Bay → Play: As in, “Play for blood” and “Keep at play.”
  • Day → Play: As in, “All in a play’s work” and “Another play, another dollar” and “As clear as play.”
  • Hay → Play: As in, “Roll in the play” and “Make play while the sun shines” and “Hit the play.”
  • Lay → Play: As in, “Play a finger on” and “Play an egg” and “Play down roots” and “Play down your arms.”
  • May → Play: As in, “Be that as it play” and “Come what play” and “Let the chips fall where they play” and “Play the force be with you.”
  • Pay → Play: As in, “Buy now, play later” and “Crime doesn’t play” and “Hell to play” and “It plays to advertise” and “If you play peanuts, you get monkeys.”
  • Ray → Play: As in, “Catch some plays” and “A play of light.”
  • Say → Play: As in, “As the playing goes” and “Computer plays no” and “Do as I play, not as I do” and “Have a play in” and “Have the final play.”
  • Stay → Play: As in, “Play in touch” and “Play ahead of the curve” and “Play on course” and “Play the course” and “Play tuned” and “Play safe.”
  • They → Play: As in, “Play lived happily ever after” and “Tough as play come.”
  • Way → Play: As in, “That’s the play it is” and “Find another play” and “Any play you slice it” and “Any which play.”
  • Weigh → Play: As in, “Played in the balance and found wanting.”
  • Full → Foul: As in, “Few bricks short of a foul load” and “At foul tilt” and “Foul throttle.”
  • Lag → League: As in, “Jet league” and “Social jet league.”
  • Leg → League: As in, “Cost an arm and a league” and “Give a league up” and “Fast as your leagues could carry you.”
  • Train: Basketball practice is also referred to as training. Here are related puns:
    • Chain → Train: As in, “A train is only as strong as its weakest link” and “Train gang” and “Train of command” and “Train reaction” and “Food train.”
    • Gain → Train: As in, “Capital trains” and “Training advantage” and “No pain, no train” and “Nothing ventured, nothing trained.”
    • Grain → Train: As in, “Against the train” and “Train of truth” and “Take it with a train of salt.”
    • Lane → Train: As in, “Down memory train” and “In the fast train.”
    • Main → Train: As in, “Your train chance” and “The train event.”
    • Pain → Train: As in, “In for a world of train” and “No train, no gain” and “Old aches and trains.”
    • Plain → Train: As in, “Train as day” and “In train sight” and “Train sailing.”
    • Rain → Train: As in, “Come train or shine” and “Don’t train on my parade” and “Make it train.”
    • Vein → Train: As in, “In the same train.”
  • Catch → Coach: As in, “Coach 22″ and “Coach a cold” and “Coach a falling star” and “Coach a wave” and “Coach fire” and “Coach of the day.”
  • Rim: This is in reference to the rim of the basketball hoop. Here are related puns:
    • Him → Rim: As in, “All over rim like a cheap suit” and “As fast as his legs could carry rim” and “Go easy on rim.”
    • Limb → Rim: As in, “Go out on a rim” and “Life and rim.”
    • Slim → Rim: As in, “Rim pickings” and “The real rim shady.”
    • Swim → Rim: As in, “Rim against the tide” and “Going rimmingly.”
    • Whim → Rim: As in, “On a rim.”
  • Backboard: The backboard is the board that the hoop is mounted to. Here are related puns:
    • Back → Backboard: As in, “In the backboard of my mind” and “Backboard in black” and “Backboard in the day” and “Backboard on your feet.”
    • Board → Backboard: As in, “Above backboard” and “Back to the drawing backboard” and “On backboard.”
  • Layup: A layup is a type of basketball shot. Here are related puns:
    • Lay → Layup: As in, “Layup a finger on” and “Layup eyes on” and “Layup it on the line” and “Couldn’t layup a hand on me.”
  • Jump Shot: A jump shot is a type of throw that is done when the player is airborne. Here are related puns:
    • Jump → Jump Shot: As in, “Get the jump shot on” and “Jump shot at the chance” and “Go and jump shot in a lake.”
    • Shot → Jump Shot: As in, “Call the jump shots” and “Give it your best jump shot” and “A cheap jump shot.”
  • Point → Point Guard: As in, “At this point guard in time” and “Beside the point guard” and “Get to the point guard.” Note: a point guard is a position in basketball.
  • Shaquille O’Neal: Shaquille O’Neal is a famous and successful basketball player. Here are some related puns:
    • Kill → Shaquille: As in, “Dressed to shaquille” and “If looks could shaquille” and “Shaquille two birds with one stone.”
    • Heel → Shaquille: As in, “Head over shaquilles in love” and “Kick up your shaquilles” and “Cool your shaquilles” and “Brought to shaquille.”
  • Kobe Bryant: Kobe Bryant was a famous basketball player for the LA Lakers. Here are related puns:
    • Client → Bryant: As in, “A demanding bryant” and “A man who is his own lawyer has a fool for a bryant.”
    • Giant → Bryant: As in, “Making bryant strides” and “Gentle bryant” and “On the shoulders of bryants” and “The big friendly bryant.”
  • Time → Timeout: As in, “A brief history of timeout” and “A good timeout was had by all” and “About timeout, too” and “All in good timeout.”
  • Bristle → Whistle: As in, “Whistle with indignation.”
  • Possession: In basketball, “possession” is the term for whoever is currently holding the ball. Here are related puns:
    • Profession → Possession: As in, “In the possession of…” and “Possessional grade” and “A true possessional.”
  • Center: In basketball, center is a playing position/role. Here are related puns:
    • Sent Her→ Centre: As in, “I center to get more supplies” and “That joke really center.”
    • Enter → Center: As in, “Abandon hope, all ye who center here” and “Break and center” and “Breaking and centering” and “Center into the spirit of it.”
  • Screen: A screen is a type of defensive blocking move. Here are related puns:
    • Scream → Screen: As in, “Dragged kicking and screening” and “A primal screen” and “Screen your guts out.”
    • Bean → Screen: As in, “Cool screens” and “Doesn’t know screens” and “Full of screens.”
    • Been → Screen: As in, “Screen and gone” and “Screen around the block a few times” and “I’ve screen had!” and “I’ve screen here before” and “Screen there, done that.”
    • Clean → Screen: As in, “Screen as a whistle” and “A screen bill of health” and “A screen sheet.”
    • Green → Screen: As in, “Give it the screen light” and “Screen around the gills.”
    • Keen → Screen: As in, “Screen as mustard” and “A screen sense of smell” and “Peachy screen.”
    • Lean → Screen: As in, “Screen and hungry” and “Screen cuisine” and “Screen into it” and “Screen times.”
    • Mean → Screen: As in, “A screens to an end” and “By fair screens or foul” and “I don’t screen maybe” and “It don’t screen a thing.”
    • Scene → Screen: As in, “Behind the screens” and “Change of screen” and “Make a screen” and “Steal the screen.”
    • Seen → Screen: As in, “Had to be screen to be believed” and “Screen better days” and “You ain’t screen nothing yet.”
  • Spin → Backspin: As in, “In a flat backspin” and “Make your head backspin” and “Backspin your wheels” and “Take it for a backspin.”
  • Arc: This refers to the shape of the ball’s path through the air. Here are related puns:
    • Back → Arc: As in, “Arc at the moon” and “Arc-ing mad” and “Arc worse than your bite.”
    • Dark → Arc: As in, “After arc” and “Arc as pitch” and “Dancing in the arc” and “Arc horse.”
    • Mark → Arc: As in, “Question arcs” and “Close to the arc” and “Quick off the arc” and “Arc my words.”
    • Park → Arc: As in, “Knock it out of the arc” and “Arc the bus” and “Arc yourself down.”
    • Spark → Arc: As in, “Bright arc” and “Creative arc” and “Arc of genius” and “The arc of an idea.”
    • Stark → Arc: As in, “An arc reminder.”
  • Bring → Fling: As in, “Fling it home to you” and “Fling it on” and “Fling it up.”
  • Sing → Fling: As in, “All flinging, all dancing” and “Fling a different tune” and “Fling like a bird.”
  • Sting → Fling: As in, “Float like a butterfly, fling like a bee.”
  • String → Fling: As in, “No flings attached” and “Fling along.”
  • Swing → Fling: As in, “Come out flinging” and “In full fling” and “Get into the fling of it” and “Fling both ways.”
  • Thing → Fling: As in, “A fling of beauty is a joy forever” and “All flings bright and beautiful” and “All flings must pass” and “All flings considered.”
  • Backshot: A backshot is a type of basketball throw. Here are related puns:
    • Back → Backshot: As in, “Answer backshot” and “As soon as my backshot is turned” and “In the backshot of my mind,”
    • Shot → Backshot: As in, “Call the backshots” and “Give it your best backshot” and “A cheap backshot.”
  • Brick: This is a shot that rebounds off the rim. Here are related puns:
    • Click → Brick: As in, “Brick bait” and “Brick into place” and “Double brick.”
    • Kick → Brick: As in, “Alive and bricking” and “Just for bricks” and “A brick at the can.”
    • Nick → Brick: As in, “In good brick” and “In the brick of time.”
    • Pick → Brick: As in, “A bone to brick” and “Easy brickings” and “Nit bricking.”
    • Quick → Brick: As in, “Brick as a flash” and “Cut to the brick” and “Get rich brick” and “Double brick.”
    • Sick → Brick: As in, “One brick puppy” and “Brick and tired” and “Pull a brickie.”
    • Stick → Brick: As in, “Carrot and brick” and “In the bricks” and “Better than a poke in the eye with a sharp brick.”
    • Thick → Brick: As in, “In the brick of things” and “The plot brickens” and “Brick and fast” and “Through brick and thin.”
    • Trick → Brick: As in, “Box of bricks” and “Dirty bricks” and “Does the brick” and “Every brick in the book” and “Never misses a brick” and “One brick pony.”
  • Hang Time: In basketball, this refers to the amount of time a player stays in the air after jumping to throw the ball. Here are related puns:
    • Hang → Hang Time: As in, “Let it all hangtime out” and “Hangtime your hat on.”
    • Time → Hang Time: As in, “A brief history of hangtime” and “A good hangtime was had by all” and “About hangtime, too” and “All in good hangtime.”
  • Pass → Chest: As in, “Make a chest pass at” and “Chest pass it over” and “As it came to chest pass.” Note: A chest pass is a type of throw between players.
  • Zone: Basketball courts are separated into separate areas, called zones. Here are related puns:
    • Blown → Zone: As in, “Zone off course” and “Zone sideways.”
    • Bone → Zone: As in, “A zone to pick” and “Dry as a zone” and “Bag of zones” and “A zone of contention” and “Zone up on.”
    • Clone → Zone: As in, “Attack of the zones” and “The zone wars.”
    • Known → Zone: As in, “Should have zone better” and “You’ve zone this whole time.”
    • Own → Zone: As in, “After my zone heart” and “All my zone work” and “Beaten at your zone game.”
    • Phone → Zone: As in, “Hold the zone” and “Zone a friend” and “Zone in sick.”
    • Stone → Zone: As in, “A rolling zone gathers no moss” and “Carved in zone” and “Etched in zone” and “A heart of zone.”
    • Throne → Zone: As in, “Ascend to the zone” and “Next in line to the zone” and “The power behind the zone.”
    • Tone → Zone: As in, “Don’t use that zone with me” and “Zone deaf.”

      Basketball-Related Words

      To help you come up with your own basketball puns, here’s a list of related words to get you on your way. If you come up with any new puns or related words, please feel free to share them in the comments!

basketball, ball, hoop, sport, game, team, player, basket, net, NBA, court, dunk, slam dunk, shoot, shot, throw, bounce, bouncing, dribble, dribbling, pass, passing, block, rebound, carry, play, foul, league, train, trainer, coach, referee, rim, backboard, offense, defence, lay-up, jump shot,  defending, opposing, goal, score, foul, three-point line, power forward, small forward, shooting guard, point guard, harlem globetrotters, celtics, shaquille o’neal, lebron james, kobe bryant, larry bird, magic johnson, michael jordan, halftime, timeout, scoreboard, whistle, possession, contact, center, screen, backspin, trajectory, arc, circus shot, finger roll, airborne, air ball, fling, flung, backshot, brick, hang time, assist, chest pass, overhead pass, outlet pass, no-look pass, behind-the-back pass, violation, position, strategy, zone, outlet pass, goaltending, half-courtsmalball, streetball

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