Basketball

"Am I doing it correctly? I shoot this thing, right?"

Basketball is a human sport, though it is occasionally played by Transformers. It involves a large amount of dribbling, dunking and occasionally fouling. The aim is to pass a spherical object through an elevated hoop to score.

Fiction

Generation 1

The Transformers cartoon

"No, movie me, that's completely wrong. You're hoopless."

Spike Witwicky organized a basketball game among the Autobots, though Optimus Prime kept getting the lingo wrong. The game was eventually halted when Prime noticed Tracks's maintenance issues. The Master Builders

Marvel The Transformers comics

Basketrek was a Cybertronian sport possibly similar to basketball. Aerialbots over America!

Armada cartoon

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Rad, Carlos, and Alexis had a basketball match against Billy and Fred, which mainly resulted in Fred being hit repeatedly in the face by the basketball and the smaller team losing. Base

Live-action movie series

The SOCCENT Forward Operations Base in Qatar had a makeshift basketball court until it was destroyed by Blackout. Transformers

Commercial appearances

Mark Cuban hired Optimus Prime for his basketball game, though Optimus's style of play included firing the basketball out of his blaster and stomping on the ball. ESPN Dark of the Moon commercial

Titan Animated comic

Bulkhead, Prowl, Afterburn and Sari Sumdac were watching a basketball game between the Dunkers and the Jumpers when super-villain Crossroads took control of Detroit's computer systems, forcing them to go deal with him instead. Crossroads!

Aligned

Prime cartoon

Miko refereed a one-on-one basketball match between Bulkhead and Bumblebee. Bulkhead scored the first point, but when Bumblebee went to dunk the ball, he froze and experienced a flashback to an earlier space bridge explosion — a symptom of his possession by Megatron. When Bulkhead snapped him out of it, he threw the ball at his comrade's head, causing Miko to announce he'd committed a foul. Out of His Head

Rescue Bots cartoon

The Griffin Rock fire station had a basketball court beside it which the Burns family often utilized, Hotshots though Cody Burns cheated during one match with anti-gravity sneakers. You've Been Squilshed The court also concealed a hidden hangar in which the Sigma was kept. Space Bots

Kre-O online comic

When the Decepticons were constructing a solar tower, Optimus Prime turned up carrying a basketball with the other Autobots, and found that the Decepticons had already wrecked the tower through their own bungling. Megatron's Ambition!? The Solar Tower Is Built!

Renegade Rhetoric

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The GoBots met the Harlem Globetrotters once. Wackiness ensued. Transformers: Renegade Rhetoric

Merchandise

• Transformers: Prime Soak and Slam Set (2012)

Released by MZB Accessories, this set included basketball themed bath toys comprising a hoop with backboard (featuring Optimus Prime and Bumblebee) and two miniature basketballs, as well as a bottle of shampoo, and a bottle of conditioner.