Any appeal to non-basketball fans?
It's not a popular sport outside the USA
shareSurely you jest.
shareAnswer the goddamn question. Is it a movie only for people that watch NBA or not ?
shareI haven't seen it. I was only pointing out the massive global popularity of basketball.
sharemmm, don't know about that:-
https://www.topendsports.com/world/lists/popular-sport/fans.htm
Some popularity but not exactly massive...
Even the link you shared shows it as tied for 9th for popularity among all sports in the world. Here's a more reputable-looking article that places it 3rd in the world.
https://fadeawayworld.net/nba-media/basketball-named-3rd-most-popular-sport-in-the-world-with-over-2-billion-fans-worldwide
However you slice it, basketball is very popular globally, with a growing audience.
Yeah, tbh I thought 9th was probably a bit low on that list.
But obviously it depends on how they try to estimate, which in itself is interesting.
Personally I couldn't really believe it was third in the world - I've seen pockets in Europe where it's really big (e.g. Greece) but not everywhere.
Certainly couldn't see it ahead of football, cricket, tennis, hockey or golf but maybe somewhere not too far behind...
Plus I guess there's probably some difference in numbers of players vs number of viewers.
China has embraced basketball in a big way, and that has lead to some major growth.
shareWhat's funny reading these lists is that I had no idea Americans called hockey "field hockey"!
I guess just to differentiate it from ice hockey which, being the prevailing sport in America, has been shortened in common use to just be called hockey?
So they've had to add a prefix on to the original version to avoid confusion!
All it comes down to is that anywhere hockey is primarily played on ice, the term field hockey is used to describe the game when played on a field, and anywhere it's primarily played on grass, the term "ice hockey" is used.
shareTable Tennis being that high seems suspect.
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