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Examples
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The coach expects the three-time all-star to get along just fine with back-court mate John Wall, whom the Wizards selected with the No. 1 overall pick in June's NBA draft.
Flip Saunders addresses media scrutiny of Gilbert Arenas Gene Wang 2010
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` ` If a ball is not in positive possession of an offensive player in the front court who then takes it in the back court, it is not considered a back-court violation. ''
USATODAY.com 2008
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And, nothing could keep him from celebrating the Wizards '89-64 victory over the Los Angeles Clippers by wrapping his arm around former University of Kentucky back-court mate Eric Bledsoe and later embracing his coach, Flip Saunders.
John Wall gets double-double in second summer league game 2010
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Hayes and Vasquez are bidding to become the second set of Maryland back-court players to put on Wizards jerseys.
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Teams that can match their back-court have the best chance to beat them.
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Leading out of the inner room of the cottage was a small door from which, as they egressed, they found a back-court with lofty pear trees in blossom and banana trees, as well as two very small retiring back-courts.
Hung Lou Meng 2003
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Lin Tai-yü with hurried step withdrew behind the bed; and no sooner had she issued into the back-court, than lady Feng made her appearance in the room by the front entrance.
Hung Lou Meng 2003
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And Chris Woodruff has a strong back-court game, McEnroe said, '' but Davis Cup would be a completely new experience for him. ''
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Her fetid back-court existence in Berlin was only a decompression lock-must be.
Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978
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"Sir," Chia Chen remarked with a grin; "if you'll follow me out through this door, we'll forthwith get into the back-court; and once out of the back-court, we shall be, at all events, nearer than we were before."
Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books Xueqin Cao
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