1.   Brooks revealed how he was on a panel in Worcester, Mass. a few years back with both Thompson and former North Carolina great basketball coach Dean Smith.

2.   Bradley was one of the great basketball players in the history of the sport and he was an excellent U.S. senator.

3.   But in his great basketball mind, as he drew up a plan for Kentucky, Majerus thought maybe he could pull off the upset this time.

4.   But it all starts with basketball, and the record amply demonstrates that Smith is a great basketball coach.

5.   But in a much broader sense, it has been a tremendous success, as Barkley provided not only great basketball moments, but non-stop entertainment.

6.   Charles Smith is playing great basketball.

7.   Either that will come to pass, or these Celtics will go away quickly, put back in whatever musty attic their great basketball tradition comes from.

8.   For years, he had been convinced that his daughter, Asjha Jones, could be a great basketball player, just as she was an exceptional student.

9.   Granted, Bird was a great basketball player.

10.   Great basketball.