Best Basketball Player Poems

Night! 
It’s around nine thirty 
maybe ten. 

The phone rings. 
The voice is irritating, the words frightening.

Within minutes I’m in a car with my mate. 
Within minutes I arrive at my own ground zero. 
Exit the car. 
A body walking says you must be Courtney's...

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His full given name is Barack Hussein Obama
The etymology of his first name, "Baraka," a Swahili word meaning "Blessed"


      It's easy to see why he's my favorite POTUS
            ...

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Why the long face, son? Did someone die?
   Aw, Dad.  I flunked my math exam
Did you do your level best, son?
   I did, Dad.  I studied so hard for the test
You know that's all I ask of you, son...

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*written for Verlena's Contest "EBONICS, Let's Do Some Slang"


SHAWTY,

Yir' boy fin' ta' told ya' bout some lessons in what the Man call Ebonics.
Cus' I gots' this!
Like the young fellow named Carmello on the New York Knicks, 
and girrrrrl I got mo' slang in my verse...

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An ingenious device is a basketball net:
  Swish, swoosh, swoosh, swish---
      Its sweet sound made
      From a cager's wish.               ...

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I have two favorite sports.
On a stage and the b.ball court!
       That's right, I'm a basketball player.
A bonafide rhyme slayer!

       I can shoot a three-pointer
and give a defending player whiplash!
   ...

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When I take my nephew
to the park to play basketball,
I look around to spot trolls
who litter and destroy.
" Look at those hoodlooms,
how they behave and talk! "
" They are my friends " he 
exclaims. " Your friends?
Has your mom met them? "
" Scondrels and slanderers
have...

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Yo Yo New York City make me crazy and i am cool man and i am rap and people think i am cool rap walk on street and i am deaf and i can show people of my break dance like rap in NYC is...

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Harry was born on the 20th June 1994,
And is a wheelchair basketball player, 
Who at the 2012 Paras was the barer, 
Of the Paralympic Flag, he went afore.
 
He’s a 2.5 player and his team’s won,
Many Championships, World and Euro, 
In 2011, in Nazareth with...

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Hey! This one is my melodramatic mom’s!
One thing I have realised: No one else in the world can ever be more loving than one’s mom. 

I see five roundballers at the court.
I see her dropping dimes,
As she plays at interschool B-ball tournament today.
My misty eyes...

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I started out life as Anna Mae Bullock,                                     ...

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A basketball player named Odom
Wants to dribble the balls in his scrotum
   He tries to bounce them
   Hardwood boards renounce them
Odom can't put 'em back ~ has to tote 'em!...

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Ade is a 2.5 wheelchair basketball player, 
Who was born in Lagos in Nigeria in 1978,
His home town is Liverpool, a Mersey sayer,
In Spain club BSR Amiab Albacete is a date. 

He lives partly in London, joined the Bullets,
And he’s travelled with the sport worldwide,...

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Tall as they come, this man is 1 metre 85,
A basketball player inspired by the 2012s,
To compete in disability sport so to thrive, 
At the high jump, his practice bookshelves.  

Loughborough students encouraged him,  
To work on his basketball leaps by trying, 
To...

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Controversy is a state of a dispute or a real disagreement. Controversy also occurs when
the media's involved. It seems that when there's a lot of controversy that has been seen
on the news or heard on the radio, everybody will talk about it. Like when a...

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