| Basketballer nicknamed the Big Aristotle | 40 |
| Basketballer nicknamed "Dennis the Menace" | 52 |
| Basketballer Ming | 17 |
| Basketballer Danilovic | 22 |
| Basketballer Dan | 16 |
| Basketballer Chamberlain | 24 |
| Basketballer Archibald | 22 |
| Basketballer -- Thomas | 22 |
| Basketballer | 12 |
| Basketball-shoe part | 20 |
| Basketball-goal part | 20 |
| Basketball-broadcast phrase | 27 |
| Basketball, slangily | 20 |
| Basketball, informally | 22 |
| Basketball, for example | 23 |
| Basketball, but not football | 28 |
| Basketball, but not a football | 30 |
| Basketball's _____ Barry | 28 |
| Basketball's ___ Ming | 25 |
| Basketball's ___ Jazz | 25 |
| Basketball's ___ Elmore | 27 |
| Basketball's ___ Bol | 24 |
| Basketball's ___ Alcindor | 29 |
| Basketball's __ "The Pearl" Monroe | 48 |
| Basketball's Wolters | 24 |
| Basketball's Tomjanovich | 28 |
| Basketball's Thurmond et at. | 32 |
| Basketball's Thurmond and Archibald | 39 |
| Basketball's Thurmond | 25 |
| Basketball's three-point line, e.g. | 39 |
| Basketball's Thomas | 23 |
| Basketball's Stoudemire | 27 |
| Basketball's sixth ___ | 26 |
| Basketball's Shaquille | 26 |
| Basketball's Shaq | 21 |
| Basketball's Saperstein | 27 |
| Basketball's Robertson | 26 |
| Basketball's Patrick | 24 |
| Basketball's path | 21 |
| Basketball's Olajuwan, before 1991 | 38 |
| Basketball's Mr. Mourning | 29 |
| Basketball's Moses | 22 |
| Basketball's Ming | 21 |
| Basketball's Manute _____ | 29 |
| Basketball's Manute | 23 |
| Basketball's Malone | 23 |
| Basketball's Magic, on scoreboards | 38 |
| Basketball's Magic | 22 |
| Basketball's Larry | 22 |
| Basketball's Lamar | 22 |
| Basketball's Karl and Moses | 31 |
| Basketball's Kareem | 23 |
| Basketball's Jerry | 22 |
| Basketball's Jeremy | 23 |
| Basketball's Jazz | 21 |
| Basketball's Jason | 22 |
| Basketball's Isiah Thomas, to fans | 38 |
| Basketball's Irving, familiarly | 35 |
| Basketball's inflatable lining | 34 |
| Basketball's Holman | 23 |
| Basketball's Harper | 23 |
| Basketball's Erving, familiarly | 35 |
| Basketball's Dennis | 23 |
| Basketball's Chamberlain | 28 |
| Basketball's Bill | 21 |
| Basketball's Bell | 21 |
| Basketball's Baylor | 23 |
| Basketball's Archibald injured the Dalai Lama, palindromically | 66 |
| Basketball's Archibald | 26 |
| Basketball's Alcindor | 25 |
| Basketball's "Wilt the ___" | 41 |
| Basketball's "sixth man," e.g. | 44 |
| Basketball's "sixth man" | 38 |
| Basketball's "Clown Prince" | 41 |
| Basketball's "Chocolate Thunder" | 46 |
| Basketball ___ | 14 |
| Basketball VIP | 14 |
| Basketball violations | 21 |
| Basketball violation or, with a comma, "repulsive" | 60 |
| Basketball victory souvenir | 27 |
| Basketball venues | 17 |
| Basketball venue | 16 |
| Basketball two-handers | 22 |
| Basketball two-hander | 21 |
| Basketball tourney: Abbr. | 25 |
| Basketball tournaments | 22 |
| Basketball tournament souvenirs | 31 |
| Basketball tournament at MSG | 28 |
| Basketball tourn. won by N. C.: 1993 | 36 |
| Basketball tourn. letters | 25 |
| Basketball tourn. | 17 |
| Basketball tour de force | 24 |
| Basketball timeout sign | 23 |
| Basketball teams | 16 |
| Basketball team, e.g. | 21 |
| Basketball team whose members have pet macaws? | 46 |
| Basketball team whose members are always summarizing things? | 60 |
| Basketball team that publicly protested Arizona's immigration laws in 2010 | 78 |
| Basketball team slated to move to Brooklyn, eventually | 54 |
| Basketball team owned in part by Jay-Z | 38 |