point guard

noun

: a guard in basketball who is chiefly responsible for running the offense

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Second-year guard Jacy Sheldon and veteran Lindsay Allen have also spent much of practice playing on ball, and Sheldon ran several reps Tuesday at point guard with Mabrey playing the two. Emily Adams, Hartford Courant, 2 May 2025 Detroit didn’t run as smoothly with Cunningham and fellow young point guard Jaden Ivey, who missed the second half of the season with a broken leg. Fred Katz, New York Times, 2 May 2025 Kansas transfer guard David Coit, a veteran who began his career at Northern Illinois, should help handle point guard duties in 2025-26. Bennett Conlin, Baltimore Sun, 2 May 2025 The main difference: point guard Natasha Cloud is in the building. Fiifi Frimpong, New York Daily News, 2 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for point guard

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First Known Use

1969, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of point guard was in 1969

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“Point guard.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/point%20guard. Accessed 16 May. 2025.

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