It's naivete to think there is no problems with the sport of basketball. Ball games reflect the ills of society. But it's also naivete to think the port is a unique hoodlum sport, the focus of sporting evil that most of the people who play it are criminals. In fact, if a sport is to be labelled as the "hoodlum sport", a better case be be made against the sport of football. The violence and sex crimes that football players engage in during the off season makes basketball players look like all-American choirboys. Yet I rarely hear football termed a "hoodlum sport". Maybe it's because too many football fanatics have watched too much
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Basketball and football alike are just games. Most basketball and football players are not criminals.