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... and replacing American in top basketball team? (4)

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five

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'basketball team?' is the definition.
('five' can be a synonym of 'basketball team')

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(Other definitions for five that I've seen before include "Quintet" , "Fourth part of score" , "Prime number" , "Odd number" , "Cardinal" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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