The word **篮球队** (lángiú duì), meaning "basketball team," is formed through a logical compounding process in Chinese. It begins with the root **篮球** (lángiú, "basketball"), which itself is a compound of **篮** (lán, "basket") and **球** (qiú, "ball"), directly describing the sport's equipment. The suffix **队** (duì, "team") is then appended to this noun, creating a modified-head structure where "basketball" (**篮球**) acts as the modifier specifying the type of "team" (**队**). Thus, the entire construction follows a transparent and common grammatical pattern of **[Sport] + [Team]** to form a single, cohesive unit meaning the organized group that plays that specific sport.