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  1. Why are basketball players sometimes referred to as cagers?
  2. Because in the early days of basketball, courts were surrounded by wire cages
  3. Because a basketball net is webbed like the wires of a cage
  4. Because the fellow who invented basketball was named John Cage
  5. They are called cagers because basketball courts were once surrounded by wire cages.
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