Definitions
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- verb basketball To engage in
goaltending , interference with the ball on its downward path to the basket
Etymologies
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Examples
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I've done this a long time and I've never won a game when they didn't call a goaltend on us
CNN.com 2012
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With just under two minutes to go and the Pistons trailing 104-101, it looked like Bynum was going to score a breakaway layup to pull Detroit to within a point ... but LeBron's uncalled goaltend put a stop to that: most protected player in the league King.
Basketbawful Basketbawful 2010
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Bogut scored the first eight points for Milwaukee, making a dunk, a running hook, a jumper aided by a McGee goaltend and a layup.
JaVale McGee, Cartier Martin help Wizards end their slide Michael Lee 2011
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Even though it was a goaltend, I thought that was the most exciting one by far, '' Howard said, struggling to speak after being elbowed in the throat earlier in the week.
USATODAY.com 2008
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Saturday afternoon, we were certain that LeBron would score 130 points in Game 6 and send the series back to Cleveland, where Jay-Z would sit courtside with a Penny Hardaway voodoo doll and NBA commissioner David Stern would plop atop the Orlando rim and goaltend all of Rashard Lewis's three-point attempts.
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Early in the second quarter, Kris Humphries 'driving floater as he was fouled was called good on a goaltend and he hit the free throw to put the Raptors ahead 37-25.
USATODAY.com 2007
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Indiana's Jeff Foster was credited with a basket on a goaltend by Okafor to make it 101-97 with 2: 26 to play.
USATODAY.com 2007
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A Georgia player was about to shoot his second free throw, which Gillispie ordered Perry Stevenson to goaltend.
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Williams hit 3-pointers on back-to-back possessions to lead the Heat back, and his fast-break basket on a goaltend by Simmons brought the Heat within 75-71 after three quarters.
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Foye hit a jumper for a seven-point Minnesota lead, but Arenas 'reverse layup was good on a goaltend.
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