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Person Playing Basketball

The person bouncing a basketball emoji depicts an athletic individual shooting hoops on the court. You can this emoji when you wanna play b-ball, cheering for your favorite NBA team, or just talking about how baller you are. This emoji depicts basketball plays with a variety skin tones and genders -- but not a variety of heights.

Codepoints: 26F9 FE0F
Introduced: June, 2014 in Unicode version 7.0.0 (Emoji version 0.7)
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