"basketball-player" meaning in English

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          "text": "The fashion was to create live, on-set transformations of man into wolf or to use a sophisticated mix of puppetry and unusually-shaped humans in suits (in some scenes, ET was played by the midget Tamara de Treux, while the alien in Alien was the very tall basketball-player, Bolaji Badejo).",
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          "text": "Basketball-player Mitchell Frederick, junior from Corydon Central, led the Mighty Oaks at regional, shooting 77-78—155 to finish in a four-way tie for fifth place.",
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