1.   Brand took the basketball away from Knight, gave it to Davis and was getting it back.

2.   For almost any kid who takes a basketball to the neighborhood playground, the dream of the last-second shot to win the national title is a constant.

3.   He swam in high school, took up basketball late and decided to enjoy the fruits of college rather than go to work right away.

4.   Hollywood, it seems, has suddenly taken up basketball.

5.   If this keeps up, they will have to take pro basketball off NBC and put it on the Home Shopping Network.

6.   Nearly everyone else stood around and watched Arizona State guards take the basketball from them.

7.   Once again, the Miami Heat and New York Knicks have taken basketball to yet another low.

8.   Rasheed Wallace took the basketball, went to the net and dunked.

9.   Simple, said Awojobi, when asked if Olajuwon was his hero when he took up basketball in Lagos a mere seven years ago.

10.   So, Sunday, when the final buzzer sounded at the Superdome, Ivory, the Penn State guard, took the basketball and flung it in the air.