Unbelievable Sports Moments
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- 4. Sport that emphasize or require physical contact between players.
- 5. Shooting guard, he spent his entire 20-year career with the Los Angeles Lakers (NBA).
- 7. Professional basketball league in North America.
- 8. Basket scored on any shot or tap other than a free throw, worth two or three points depending on the distance of the attempt from the basket.
- 10. American professional basketball team based in Cleveland.
- 12. A fight-ending, winning criterion in several full-contact combat sports.
- 13. American professional basketball team based in Los Angeles.
- 14. Occurs when a defensive player legally deflects a field goal attempt from an offensive player to prevent a score.
- 15. The boxer who beat Spinks.
- 16. LeBron's nickname.
- 18. The space in which a boxing match occurs.
- 20. He is considered by many to be the best basketball player of all time.
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- 1. An act of taking the ball, or attempting to take the ball, from an opponent.
- 2. The areas at each end of the field between the goal lines and end lines – including the goal lines themselves.
- 3. Single-game performance in which a player accumulates ten or more in two of the following five statistical categories: points, rebounds, assists, steals, and blocked shots.
- 6. The line that separates the two-point area from the three-point area
- 9. In American football, the distance of some point on the 100-yard field of play – usually the line of scrimmage or the spot where a play ends – from the nearest goal line.
- 11. Former professional American football player who was a running back in the NFL, from 1989 to 1998 for the Detroit Lions.
- 17. Combat sport in which two people, usually wearing protective gloves and other protective equipment, throw punches at each other for a predetermined amount of time.
- 19. Scoring play in American football.