81.   He watched entire college and professional basketball games while running in place.

82.   He was the golden age of New York professional basketball, wrapped into one self-contained package.

83.   He telephoned his victim to apologize and has agreed to share a portion of his earnings with her should he become a professional basketball player.

84.   He wants to play some level of professional basketball without forcing a career, without chasing one.

85.   He was trying to rehab a savaged knee so he could give professional basketball one last try.

86.   His message was that while professional basketball is often celebrated as athletic ballet, it is also a brutal sport played by large and powerful men.

87.   Hell, you can be a professional basketball player or a congressman and watch a soap opera.

88.   His movements have been directed by a handful of men who see in Ibrahim someone with a lucrative future in professional basketball.

89.   However, this and certain family problems take a back seat to her burgeoning relationship with a professional basketball player.

90.   His only chance at professional basketball was through the ABA.