How did basketball become so popular in the world when handegg

>>76168278
>>76168278

Basketball will one day become the #1 sport worldwide.

It can be played using just as little equipment (shoes and one shared ball) except you have courts that are 30% the size of a soccer field. No need for upkeep of grass or leveling the pitch all it needs is a fresh slop of blacktop every couple of years.

>>76168278
handegg pads and helmets cost money
a basketball is cheap, and hoops are put up by schools/cities all over the place

>>76168345
No chance now that the Chinese government has decided to go all in on divegrass. It'll be Football #1 and Cricket #2 for all of our lifetimes now population wise because of China and India.

Surely your little american mind can work that out

To play basketball you need a ball and a hoop. You don't even need two people, you can just play by yourself

To play handegg you need at least 65 people, $10000 worth of gear and an enormous field

>>76168345
>except you have courts that are 30% the size of a soccer field. No need for upkeep of grass or leveling the pitch all it needs is a fresh slop of blacktop every couple of years.

Are you fucking retarded? you do realize that people play football 5(as in 5 players) all the time right? If it's smaller then they play 3v3.

You don't actually need a goal to play football you can make it with a couple stones or someone's flip flops, you can't do that in basketball. Not to mention that nobody fucking cares about the state of the pitch unless it's a pro game

>>76168345
It'll never overtake soccer. You're fooling yourself.

>>76170076
Basketball: need at least asphalt street, a ring, a ball and 2 people to play one on one
Football: needs a ball and 2 people (play richard way), 3 people if you want play "25" and so on
American Football: needs a ball and 2 teams of people

Personally, I find "stop-and-go" sports like handegg and rugby to be unwatchable. Basketball can be great as long as the game does not turn into a flopping or hack-a-X contest.

>>76170318
you forgot the most important part: you need to be at least 6'5" to have any hope of becoming pro at basketball, bellow that only you're blessed by absurd natural talent, while if you're 6'10" if above you don't even need skill, just try and stay healthy.

>>76168278
Its not popular int the world only in USA. Literally nobody else cares except special snowflake faggots.

>>76170591
Isaih thomas is literally 5'8 and would put up 20-40 pts.
>>76170640
>what is spain, france, some Balkan countries, and china?

Stay btfo

you only need a net and a ball. thats what makes a good sport

no fucking pads, ice skates, 20 people etc

>>76170591
I did not forget but for amateur play or street play you dd not need height.
It will help for being good or a pro but is not need for only play it.

Good marketing

I don't think basketball will ever become huge though. It's fashionable now, but people will soon realise that it's completely substanceless

>>76171529
here is the second relevant sport and I would say is the same for Argentina although It`s way behind football

>>76171694
and I think that's going to be the extent of it

the game just doesn't have enough to keep people entertained for an extended period of time. It used to be mildly popular here (by that I mean it was bigger than soccer but still small), but now no one gives the slightest shit beyond chinks and pasty white kids that consider themselves hip hop heads

Because every country has tall people

>>76168734
Soccer is also growing in India, It will be Football then Basketball since China still puts effort into Basketball and Euroleague is going to become comparable to the NBA, while Australia will continue to collect the tinpot trophy that is the Cricket World Cup, resulting the sport never spreading outside the Commonwealth

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>>76171959
t. Daniele Vaccarella

>>76171959
>the sport never spreading outside the Commonwealth
>only two of cricket's growth regions are part of the commonwealth

Hmm

third world here
jordan & the bulls made it popular in my country

>>76168278
>has a basket
>has a ball
>basketball

>>76168278
Basketball is easy to pick up since it requires almost no equipment other than a ball and the courts are small and can be built inexpensively in parks

>>76168278
Because most of the world has shit taste and basketball is by far the worst North American sport, thus it's the most popular North American sport with the rest of the world

you can play football (soccer) using stones to set the goalkeep, and an empty soda can as a ball

>>76168278
you just need a basketball to play with your friends, and it can be 1 on 1 or 2 on 2, and it's very likely that there's a park nearby with a basketball court to play in. Handegg may be more entertaining on TV but it needs so much preparing it's not worth trying it

>>76168278
because it actually feels more like its own sport and not just a different version of an already known sport, which can't be said about your other 3 major sports

Soccer
>can play anywhere
>can even use a volleyball or a rolled up sock
>can make 2 goal posts using 2 sticks or shoes or hats or anything
>cheap and easy as fuck

Basketball
>can use basketball or soccer ball
>just need a flat playing court (street, asphalt, concrete, hardwood)
>need a hoop to shoot in to
>can even play alone for 3 hours

American football
>need special ball
>need special equipment
>need a lot of people
>if you don't have the above, need special dumbed down rules

>>76180816
>>need special ball
> not just using 2,25 lt coke bottles

>>76168345
With football you also just need a ball , with basketball you need hoops and you do know a lot of football is played on dirt and concrete?

>>76168345
Only 5 NBA teams have sell out crowds.

>>76180879
How the fuck do you throw an empty 2 liter like a football? Fill it with sand and hope no one gets tackled with it?

>>76181176
I was joking, as kids we use to do that (for rugby rather than handegg) filling the bottle water or dirt just for the sake of the novelty of throwing and catching the spinning bottle without hurting you

>>76171960
And which trophies do they ever win.. I'm Filipino and at least some south Americans are good at football... Basketball in short people countries is a meme.

>>76168345
It won't become the #1 sport worldwide ever, because to play basketball you *need* to be a giant nigger, and go figure, not everybody on earth is a giant nigger.

>>76168278
Risk of injury and complex rules

>>76168278
The irony, the NFL is the highest grossing league in the entire world, also the second one is the MLB and the third is basketball, premier league is 4th

>>76168760
>you need all that shit
No, all you need is a group of friends and a football

>to play football you need professional gear, professional team and a professional ball
Jesus fuck you guys are dumb as sin, all you need is a football any kind will do, and you only need more than 1 person, it's not that fucking hard to get through your head, if you have friends and really want to play but don't have an American football, you can use either a baseball or a tennis ball, hell even a rugby ball

>>76182016
No, you don't.

>>76182016
>never watched basketball
to the trash it goes. here your reply

>>76182016

plus it's fucking boring and most people are not interested in watching it let alone playing it