I'll give you a question, please answer with step-by-step reasoning process.
Test for natural language inference.\nPremise: "A basketball player is looking up and set to throw the ball."\nHypothesis: "The basketball player prepares to make a play."\nIs the hypothesis entailed by the premise?\nOptions:\n- yes\n- no\n- it is not possible to tell

yes
The player is set to throw the ball which me he prepares to make a play.

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The final answer: yes