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

an injury, a wound

to get hurt, to injure oneself

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

basketball shoes

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

finger injury from direct force to the tip

to suffer a finger injury from direct force to the tip

a wounded person, an injured person