"I guess 'to break them in' means to use them to get familiar with them. Am I right?"
Good guesswork, SJ. Count yourself correct on both accounts.
To break something in is a colloquialism meaning for someone to get used to something new by, well, just using it.
New shoes, for example, tend to need some breaking in. That's why when you try on a pair of shoes at a department store, you wriggle, shift and turn, walk, move sideways and even run a bit in order to get the right feel to it. If the shoes feel less than comfortable, the salesperson will likely say: "New shoes are like that. They are tight and stiff. You need to wear them for a few days to break them in. Then you'll be fine."
In a few days, if the shoes turned out to be unfit, the salesperson would not mind either because the payments would have been made. But, kidding aside, the salesperson is not telling untruths. You do need to wear them awhile to get a perfect feel.
So it is with new basketballs. People who play the game know that the sparkling new ball tends not to feel the best. Instead, one that has been bounced around and played a bit feels finest.
That's why NBA players are either breaking the new balls in by playing with them or having them broken in - by asking other people to play with them first.
Luke Walton, of the Los Angeles Lakers, even took one home with him. He said (January 3, 2007, latimes.com): "I want to play with it around the house and get used to it."
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