The Hawks are a hard case: Players have accused teammates of quitting or playing playground basketball instead of working as a team.

He had played a fair amount of playground basketball in his youth.

But Lopez often played playground basketball, forcing his shots, and his teammates seldom looked for him.

His teachers were players in the streets and schoolyards, where he learned the strategies and rhythms of an early brand of playground basketball.

The Brattons have a distinctive flair to their game that lacrosse observers compare to playground basketball.

Both sides were engaged in playground basketball much of the time, with bodies flying and turnovers and fouls by the bushel.

It was downright brutish, a high-profile lesson in playground basketball, of one team beating up another.

Marvelous monochrome action shots of playground basketball.

We got down 18 or 20 points, took our people out, and then they started playing playground basketball.

He played playground basketball in the summer, and was on several Urban League teams.