A person who plays basketball.
From 'basketball' + '-er' (agent noun suffix). A 20th-century word created after the sport was invented in 1891.
Basketball is the only major sport invented in America—James Naismith created it in 1891 as an indoor winter activity, and now basketballers from every continent are treated as celebrities!
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