Deaf basketball
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Deaf basketball is basketball played by deaf people. Sign language is used to communicate whistle blows and communication between players.
Players
Deaf basketball has gained great visibility because of athletes like Lance Allred who played basketball with the National Basketball Association's (NBA) Cleveland Cavaliers. Allred is hard of hearing, with a 75-80% hearing loss wearing a hearing aid. He later continued to play basketball professionally in the European basketball leagues.
Another high-profile deaf basketball player is the Slovenian professional basketball player Miha Zupan, born with an impairment similar to that of Allred, yet plays power forward at the highest professional level in Europe.