I agree about basketball as well. My wife and I went to a “pro” game with free tickets and we were bored to death. The teams just acted like it was a slow practice until the last 5 minutes of the game. During each break the promoters were shooting out t-shirts, flying blimps, running goofy contests, etc., to try and keep us in our seats. Boring.........
The best sport to watch in person is hockey!
Here’s the bad news. Gary Bettmann, the commissioner of the NHL, is an acolyte of NBA commissioner Stern, so at a hockey game you have endless Jumbo screen replays and said jumbo screen blocking half the ice, mascots, tee-shirt guns and a blimp. Oh, and the shoot-out because if soccer fans love it, what could be wrong?