How to Use point guard in a Sentence

point guard

noun

• In that game, Boston, the Bullis point guard, more than held his own.
  — Billy Witz, New York Times, 29 June 2023
• The 6-foot point guard plays with springs in his shoes and can score from anywhere.
  — Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 18 Jan. 2024
• The drive to better his craft is what motivates the 6-foot-2 point guard.
  — Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 5 Apr. 2023
• At the heart of it was Carter, the team’s top scorer, and senior point guard Colin Guenther.
  — Luca Evans, Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2023
• Ja Morant, the 23-year-old star point guard for the Memphis Grizzlies, was barely 1 year old.
  — A. Joseph Dial, Fortune, 25 June 2023
• The Aces point guard Chelsea Gray, with her audacious passing, was the fulcrum of it all.
  — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 15 Oct. 2023
• Second-year point guard Jaden Hardy led the team with 24 points and 31 minutes played and put up six rebounds.
  — Brice Paterik, Dallas News, 8 July 2023
• And, of course, the 6-foot-3 point guard has been the centerpiece of the Hammond Central boys basketball team.
  — Michael Osipoff, Chicago Tribune, 7 Apr. 2023
• The game’s best passer, a title once reserved for point guards, is a center.
  — Robert O’Connell, WSJ, 27 Nov. 2023
• Sports Magic Johnson or Stephen Curry, who’s the best point guard?
  — Chuck Schilken, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2023
• One star wing, Kawhi Leonard, has labeled Hyland the team’s backup point guard.
  — Andrew Greif, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2023
• The lone question mark is senior point guard Sahvir Wheeler, who has sat out UK's past 10 games.
  — Ryan Black, The Courier-Journal, 19 Mar. 2023
• The point guard moved to the Big Apple after playing for the Dallas Mavericks for four years.
  — Rebecca Aizin, Peoplemag, 28 July 2023
• Yet Jrue Holiday the point guard wasn’t coming to just play basketball for the Bucks.
  — Jim Owczarski, Journal Sentinel, 10 Jan. 2024
• His point guard running mate LoLo Rudolph scored 12 points.
  — Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Jan. 2024
• The Lions were fueled by star senior point guard Sayvia Sellers and her game-high 30 points.
  — Josh Reed, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Mar. 2023
• For the fourth consecutive season, Juwan Howard has gone to the transfer portal to grab a point guard.
  — Tony Garcia, Detroit Free Press, 7 Apr. 2023
• Freshman point guard Isaak Hayes said the team’s main goal is to win state, and the program is certainly among top contenders.
  — Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 Feb. 2024
• Sophomore point guard Aliyahna Morris drove to the basket and was fouled with 2.4 seconds left.
  — Steve Galluzzo, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2023
• The 6-foot-3 teenager became a top recruit as a two-way point guard in high school this year in suburban Chatsworth.
  — Greg Beacham, Chicago Tribune, 27 July 2023
• His father, Ryan, was a star point guard during his days at Calabasas and is now head coach at Shalhevet.
  — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 26 Nov. 2023
• The game will also have a matchup of star point guards in Dajuan Harris vs. Ryan Nembhard.
  — Shreyas Laddha, Kansas City Star, 23 Mar. 2024
• Boise State doesn’t have as much experience at point guard.
  — Ron Counts, Idaho Statesman, 16 Feb. 2024
• While playing basketball at USD, Rego, a point guard, led the nation in assists.
  — Jan Goldsmith, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 June 2023
• How the Celtics will look without Smart, and with Derrick White playing point guard, is one of the season’s biggest story lines.
  — Gary Washburn, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Sep. 2023
• The sixth-year point guard, who’s in his second season with the New York Knicks, instead prefers to focus on another goal.
  — Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 19 Jan. 2024
• There’s no starting-caliber point guard with Kyle Lowry out — and no consistent one with Lowry healthy.
  — Dave Hyde, Sun Sentinel, 2 Mar. 2023
• But there’s no urgency to fill it with another point guard.
  — Chris Fedor, cleveland, 14 Aug. 2023
• Jaquez grew up battling brothers Jaime and Marcos while point guard Kiki Rice played on all-boys teams.
  — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 28 Mar. 2024
• Like a frenzied point guard trying to jack up his assist numbers, Peter Biskind needs to dish.
  — Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024