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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

  • ` ` 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

  • 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

  • Hayes and Vasquez are bidding to become the second set of Maryland back-court players to put on Wizards jerseys.

    Eric Hayes has the touch at predraft workout 2010

  • Teams that can match their back-court have the best chance to beat them.

    USATODAY.com - NCAA West Region 2002

  • 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

  • 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

  • And Chris Woodruff has a strong back-court game, McEnroe said, '' but Davis Cup would be a completely new experience for him. ''

    Australian Open notebook 2000

  • Her fetid back-court existence in Berlin was only a decompression lock-must be.

    Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978

  • "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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