basketball (the sport) / a basketball (the ball used in the sport)

soccer

matter of taste

a sport; sports

he / distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that / boyfriend

distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that, yon / particularly, male personal third person pronoun: he / by extension from he: boyfriend

he; boyfriend

basketball shoes

bagging table at a store

liked, favorite