To some, the game became the means to a larger pile of cash to be made outside basketball.

Companies are sitting on piles of cash and some will have the confidence to put it to work in 2012.

Corporate America's cash pile has hit its highest level in half a century.

In high technology, Microsoft has long had the biggest cash pile.

If I had a pile of cash and 20 years to have it bear fruit?

She opens the bag and sees a pile of cash.

"I asked you a question," the officer says as he waves the pile of cash.

These are the closest equivalent to giving someone a pile of cash.

"They have piles of cash for the next downturn," she said.

He has made a pile of cash from his rackets.