Now they may see their basketball heroes turned into sweaty, panting human billboards.

Mick goes to get Pamela, who now has lost interest in the former basketball hero.

Tragically, one of the few dreams left in the inner cities, it seems, is that of being a sports star, primarily a basketball hero.

The basketball hero dates the cheerleader; the shy misfit wants to belong but can't.

But the city's salute to its fallen basketball hero was bittersweet.

The basketball hero, Mr. Barkley, said one of his 135 tickets should retire his mortgage.

Now add a new first name to that pantheon of basketball heroes whose first name was all they ever needed: Mike.

The director of a recreation center said the neighborhood children would miss Mr. Edmond, a local basketball hero.

When he was growing up, Roy's basketball hero was Michael Jordan.

I don't need to be somebody's basketball hero now.