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basketball match vs basketball game

Both 'basketball match' and 'basketball game' are grammatically correct, but their usage depends on the region. 'Basketball match' is more commonly used in UK English, while 'basketball game' is more common in US English. Both phrases refer to a competitive game of basketball.
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basketball match

This phrase is correct, especially in British English.

This phrase is commonly used in British English to refer to a competitive game of basketball.

Examples:

  • I'm going to watch a basketball match tonight.
  • The basketball match was intense and exciting.
  • The two of us are playing a basketball match.
  • If I had known sports had such interesting fonts, I would have gotten involved in a basketball match a lot sooner.
  • On 25 June 2011, during the warm-up before a women's basketball match between Belarus and Lithuania in Bydgoszcz, Belarusian supporters in the stands displayed a large white-red-white national flag not recognised by the non-democratic authorities of the Republic of Belarus.
  • On Monday we have a basketball final match.

Alternatives:

  • basketball game
  • game of basketball
  • hoops match
  • b-ball match
  • court contest

basketball game

This phrase is correct, especially in American English.

This phrase is commonly used in American English to refer to a competitive game of basketball.

Examples:

  • Let's go watch a basketball game this weekend.
  • The basketball game was a close match.
  • Pushing the basketball game back to Friday?
  • Relax, Brian; we're betting on one basketball game.
  • But the rest is still a basketball game.
  • The basketball game wasn't all we lost that night.
  • - No, the Pawnee-eagleton high school basketball game.
  • I'm helping my friends in their basketball game.
  • Nothing. Just that it happened after the basketball game.
  • It's a friendly wager on a high school basketball game.
  • On the bright side, we did win the basketball game.
  • Homer had the basketball game muted the whole time.
  • Brick, that was a basketball game.
  • You ever been to a basketball game?
  • I remember the first basketball game I ever went to.
  • I am at Lizzie's basketball game.
  • Homer had the basketball game muted the whole time.
  • And I don't believe you that he's at a basketball game.
  • At the basketball game on campus.
  • Just watchin' a basketball game.
  • There is a basketball game between St. Francis and Loyola.
  • Thought I'd take in a basketball game.

Alternatives:

  • basketball match
  • game of basketball
  • hoops game
  • b-ball game
  • court contest

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