A man mid-dribble with a basketball, used for anything hoops-related — pickup games, March Madness brackets, or just flexing athleticism in a caption. It's part of the 2015 gender-paired sports emoji rollout, when Unicode retrofitted ZWJ sequences onto the original gender-neutral 'person with ball' glyph to satisfy demand for male/female variants.
Keywords: athletic, ball, basketball, bouncing, championship, dribble, man, net, player, throw