バスケットボール (basukettobōru) means “basketball”

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学校でバスケットボールの試合を見ます。gak kō de ba su ke tto bō ru no shi ai o mi ma su

I watch a basketball game at school.

Refers to a team sport in which players move a ball by hand and score by sending it through a raised hoop.

バスケbasuke: A shorter informal term for the sport.

手でボールを扱い、高い位置にあるかご形のゴールへ投げ入れて得点を競う競技。te de bō ru o atsuka i taka i i chi ni a ru ka go gata no gō ru e na ge i re te toku ten o kiso u kyō gi

The Japanese loanword バスケットボール (basukettobōru, "basketball") comes from English basketball, a compound of basket and ball.

The English word basketball appears in the name National Basketball Association, known as the NBA, a professional league that makes the sport name familiar in English sports news.