Category:Basketball terminology

• Glossary of basketball terms

0–9

• 1–2–1–1 zone press
• 1–3–1 defense and offense
• 2–3 zone defense
• 50–40–90 club

A

• Air ball
• Alley-oop
• Amoeba defense
• Assist (basketball)

B

• Back screen
• Backboard shattering
• Ball boy
• Ball hog
• Barnstorming (sports)
• Basketball scorekeeping
• Bench-clearing brawl
• Block (basketball)
• Blocker-Mover offense
• Blue bloods in college basketball
• Box-and-one defense
• Buzzer beater

C

• Center (basketball)
• Cherry picking (basketball)
• Coach's box
• Combo guard
• Continuity offense
• Basketball court
• Crooked Zebra
• Crossover dribble
• Cup of coffee
• Cutting down the nets

D

• Dead rubber
• Defensive Player of the Year Award
• Double-double
• Double team
• Dribble drive motion
• Dribbling

E

• Economy (basketball)
• Efficiency (basketball)
• Euro step

F

• Fadeaway
• Fast break
• Field goal (basketball)
• Field goal percentage
• Finger roll
• Flex offense
• Flop (basketball)
• Four corners offense
• Four-point field goal
• Four-point play
• Free throw
• Full-court press

G

• Game seven
• Goal (sports)
• Grand Slam (PBA)
• Gravity (basketball)
• Grinnell System

H

• Hack-a-Shaq
• Half-court shot
• Hook shot
• Hot hand

I

• Interception

J

• Jordan Rules
• Jump ball
• Jump shot (basketball)

K

• Key (basketball)

L

• Layup
• Line defense

M

• Man-to-man defense
• Match-up zone defense
• Mikan Drill
• Motion offense
• Basketball moves

N

• Nellie Ball
• No blood, no foul

O

• Off the ball
• Offense efficiency rating

P

• Pace and space
• Perfect season
• Performance Index Rating
• Pick and roll
• Pinoy step
• Player tracking (National Basketball Association)
• Point forward
• Point guard
• Points per game
• Posterized
• Power forward
• Princeton offense
• Professional foul
• Pump fake

R

• Rebound (basketball)
• Rebound (sports)
• Reserve team
• Run and gun (basketball)

S

• Screen (sports)
• Shootaround
• Shooting guard
• Shot clock
• Shuffle offense
• Sidelines
• Sixth man
• Slam dunk
• Slasher (basketball)
• Small ball (basketball)
• Steal (basketball)
• Stretch five
• Stretch four
• Swingman

T

• Tanking (sports)
• Tendex
• Three seconds rule
• Three-point field goal
• Three-point play
• Throw-in
• Tie (draw)
• Time line (basketball)
• Tip drill (basketball)
• Triangle offense
• Turnover (basketball)

U

• UCLA High Post Offense
• Uncontested shot
• Uniform number (basketball)

V

• Violation (basketball)

W

• Wheel offense
• Works team

Z

• Zaza rule
• Zone defense