1.   Also, basketball is becoming more of a family sport, played increasingly at home with everyone participating.

2.   Basketball has become more important than ever.

3.   Basketball became a case merely of first rushing this way, then that.

4.   Basketball became his life, courtesy of his brother-in-law, Ricky Lowery, a former guard at Capital University, a Division III school in Columbus, Ohio.

5.   Basketball became his dying affection.

6.   But basketball also becomes the tie that binds his jazz-riff ruminations on race and American society.

7.   But the Globetrotters started out as a team that played a performance-oriented game for money but would cut the comedy when the basketball became serious.

8.   By the time he was a teen-ager, his parents suspected basketball might become significant to his life.

9.   College basketball has become a more frenzied game.

10.   Even college basketball has become international.