1.   Assistant coach Scott Collins sometimes worked one-on-one with Pierce in an otherwise empty gym.

2.   Greer is sitting at his desk, squinting at a DVD on his computer of a basketball game being played in what looks like an empty gym.

3.   He took a shot and it resounded in the empty gym, empty but for the coach and the television crew on the far side of the court.

4.   He started with shots in an empty gym, continued with pickup games, and moved up to more strenuous competition in summer leagues.

5.   In an empty gym, he can drain jumpers with anybody on the planet.

6.   Long after the game was over, Heinle raised his right ring finger, the one he dislocated last week against Portland State, to an almost empty gym.

7.   On Tuesday, they found themselves cutting down the net in their empty gym.

8.   The Southwest Missouri assistant coach Lynnette Robinson was scouting a high school tournament when she came across a grade school division game in a nearly empty gym.

9.   Those hundreds of jump shots Felipe Lopez took in empty gyms have combined to expand his game.

10.   Without the fans, without the hype and only an empty gym to settle a historical score, which team would emerge with a victory?