How popular is basketball in your country?

XTraderXL · Post #81 » by **XTraderXL** » Tue Aug 30, 2016 10:26 am

Slovenia I would say:
1. Soccer
2. Basketball
3. Winter sports
4. Handball, Ice Hockey
5. Volleyball, Tennis

ChosenChild11 · Post #82 » by **ChosenChild11** » Tue Oct 25, 2016 5:39 pm

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jacbobbutler · Post #83 » by **jacbobbutler** » Mon Nov 21, 2016 10:41 am

In Scotland, people laugh at you when you tell them you play basketball. The stereotype if tall, black and muscular to play basketball still exists. Also our facilities are shocking. There is only 2 outdoor courts in my (large) city

ghostface-OK · Post #84 » by **ghostface-OK** » Wed Jan 11, 2017 1:59 pm

I agree that here is Serbia football (soccer) is the most popular, and it is very sad because we are like 10x better in basketball than football I dont know why people still like that sport more over basketball

Pg81 · Post #85 » by **Pg81** » Wed Mar 29, 2017 5:31 am

Germany:

1.) Football
2.) Football
3.) Football
4.) Handball
5.) Volleyball
6.) Basketball (maybe)

I mean they had replaced the daily 30 minute NBA recap with darts and sumo in the 2000s on our sports channel. Made me a sad panda...

UcanUwill · Post #86 » by **UcanUwill** » Tue Apr 4, 2017 9:47 am

jacbobbutler wrote:In Scotland, people laugh at you when you tell them you play basketball. The stereotype if tall, black and muscular to play basketball still exists. Also our facilities are shocking. There is only 2 outdoor courts in my (large) city

Sad. I live in a very small Lithuanian town and we have outside basketball courts and facilities up the ***. There are a hoop for every town citizen it seems, its incredibly popular. Our football fields and the whole infrastructure tho is dead, just terrible.

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UcanUwill · Post #87 » by **UcanUwill** » Tue Apr 4, 2017 9:52 am

ghostface-OK wrote:I agree that here is Serbia football (soccer) is the most popular, and it is very sad because we are like 10x better in basketball than football I dont know why people still like that sport more over basketball

But you are pretty good at football. I imagine football is obviously the most popular in Serbia, Turkey, Greece, but Basketball is proud second. Or am I wrong? Basketball seem to have huge following in those countries.

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baldur · Post #88 » by **baldur** » Tue Apr 18, 2017 9:57 am

UcanUwill wrote:
ghostface-OK wrote:I agree that here is Serbia football (soccer) is the most popular, and it is very sad because we are like 10x better in basketball than football I dont know why people still like that sport more over basketball

But you are pretty good at football. I imagine football is obviously the most popular in Serbia, Turkey, Greece, but Basketball is proud second. Or am I wrong? Basketball seem to have huge following in those countries.

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you are right. pretty similar in those countries.

Dante80 · Post #89 » by **Dante80** » Wed Apr 19, 2017 7:13 pm

Here in Greece, soccer is king, but basketball is a very close second I think. After Nick Galis, every school in my country suddenly got a basket court..XD

The-Power · Post #90 » by **The-Power** » Wed Apr 19, 2017 10:57 pm

Pg81 wrote:Germany:

1.) Football
2.) Football
3.) Football
4.) Handball
5.) Volleyball
6.) Basketball (maybe)

I mean they had replaced the daily 30 minute NBA recap with darts and sumo in the 2000s on our sports channel. Made me a sad panda...

Darts jumps towards the top of the list - behind soccer that is - for two weeks each year and the coverage of all Darts events has increased drastically over the past years. Otherwise, winter sports are definitely up there as well and during the Biathlon season it's probably the second most popular sports at the time.

Volleyball is probably second in terms of how many people play but not in terms of TV coverage and national events. Also, the NFL has gained a lot of popularity recently - especially in the age group 15 to 35. It's bigger than the NBA and it wouldn't surprise me if it was more popular than basketball in general.

Pg81 · Post #91 » by **Pg81** » Thu Apr 20, 2017 3:57 am

The-Power wrote:
Pg81 wrote:Germany:

1.) Football
2.) Football
3.) Football
4.) Handball
5.) Volleyball
6.) Basketball (maybe)

I mean they had replaced the daily 30 minute NBA recap with darts and sumo in the 2000s on our sports channel. Made me a sad panda...

Darts jumps towards the top of the list - behind soccer that is - for two weeks each year and the coverage of all Darts events has increased drastically over the past years. Otherwise, winter sports are definitely up there as well and during the Biathlon season it's probably the second most popular sports at the time.

Volleyball is probably second in terms of how many people play but not in terms of TV coverage and national events. Also, the NFL has gained a lot of popularity recently - especially in the age group 15 to 35. It's bigger than the NBA and it wouldn't surprise me if it was more popular than basketball in general.

That might be so, I am not 100% certain. All I wanted to show is that basketball despite having gained noticable popularity over the last two decades thanks to Dirk Nowitzki is still far behind football and even some other sports. I am not even sure it is more popular than handball.

UcanUwill · Post #92 » by **UcanUwill** » Thu Apr 20, 2017 1:00 pm

Pg81 wrote:
The-Power wrote:
Pg81 wrote:Germany:

1.) Football
2.) Football
3.) Football
4.) Handball
5.) Volleyball
6.) Basketball (maybe)

I mean they had replaced the daily 30 minute NBA recap with darts and sumo in the 2000s on our sports channel. Made me a sad panda...

Darts jumps towards the top of the list - behind soccer that is - for two weeks each year and the coverage of all Darts events has increased drastically over the past years. Otherwise, winter sports are definitely up there as well and during the Biathlon season it's probably the second most popular sports at the time.

Volleyball is probably second in terms of how many people play but not in terms of TV coverage and national events. Also, the NFL has gained a lot of popularity recently - especially in the age group 15 to 35. It's bigger than the NBA and it wouldn't surprise me if it was more popular than basketball in general.

That might be so, I am not 100% certain. All I wanted to show is that basketball despite having gained noticable popularity over the last two decades thanks to Dirk Nowitzki is still far behind football and even some other sports. I am not even sure it is more popular than handball.

I imagine moto sports are very popular in Germany, no? Handball being more popular than basketball is just sad to me.

Pg81 · Post #93 » by **Pg81** » Thu Apr 20, 2017 1:22 pm

UcanUwill wrote:
Pg81 wrote:
The-Power wrote:Darts jumps towards the top of the list - behind soccer that is - for two weeks each year and the coverage of all Darts events has increased drastically over the past years. Otherwise, winter sports are definitely up there as well and during the Biathlon season it's probably the second most popular sports at the time.

Volleyball is probably second in terms of how many people play but not in terms of TV coverage and national events. Also, the NFL has gained a lot of popularity recently - especially in the age group 15 to 35. It's bigger than the NBA and it wouldn't surprise me if it was more popular than basketball in general.

That might be so, I am not 100% certain. All I wanted to show is that basketball despite having gained noticable popularity over the last two decades thanks to Dirk Nowitzki is still far behind football and even some other sports. I am not even sure it is more popular than handball.

I imagine moto sports are very popular in Germany, no? Handball being more popular than basketball is just sad to me.

True enough, F1 has a lot of fans as well.

janmagn · Post #94 » by **janmagn** » Thu Apr 20, 2017 6:07 pm

UcanUwill wrote:
Pg81 wrote:
The-Power wrote:Darts jumps towards the top of the list - behind soccer that is - for two weeks each year and the coverage of all Darts events has increased drastically over the past years. Otherwise, winter sports are definitely up there as well and during the Biathlon season it's probably the second most popular sports at the time.

Volleyball is probably second in terms of how many people play but not in terms of TV coverage and national events. Also, the NFL has gained a lot of popularity recently - especially in the age group 15 to 35. It's bigger than the NBA and it wouldn't surprise me if it was more popular than basketball in general.

That might be so, I am not 100% certain. All I wanted to show is that basketball despite having gained noticable popularity over the last two decades thanks to Dirk Nowitzki is still far behind football and even some other sports. I am not even sure it is more popular than handball.

I imagine moto sports are very popular in Germany, no? Handball being more popular than basketball is just sad to me.

I would die if handball was more popular in Finland than basketball

Our best two handball teams that face each other in the finals every year are Cocks and Dickens (not joking)

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elchengue20 · Post #95 » by **elchengue20** » Thu Jun 22, 2017 6:29 pm

Uruguay.

1) Futbol (Soccer): Is like a religion here for most people. Big factor in our national identity. Small country but we produce some of the best players in the world.

2) Basketball: Very far from futbol but still a popular sport. In the capital Montevideo we have nearly 15 basketball clubs with youth teams and senior teams wich is crazy. In the rest of the country we have some semi-professional legaues who brings american players.

3)Everything else

Kings2013 · Post #96 » by **Kings2013** » Thu Sep 7, 2017 9:42 am

Le Chef wrote:Our sport popularity here goes like this

1. Basketball
2. Boxing
3. Billiards / Pool

Here is Philippines

I'm in the Philippines and he isn't lying. In the malls basketball gear is the first thing you'll see in sports stores. People wear NBA gear all over the place.

El Hespiritu · Post #97 » by **El Hespiritu** » Sun Sep 24, 2017 4:24 pm

Catalonia:

-FCBarcelona (Més que un sport)
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-Football (Soccer)
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-Motorcycling
-Basketball (Thanks Tolliver for Badalona -bball is sorta religion in that small town- and a bit Manresa or it would be even worse)

Post #98 » by **Nuntius** » Mon Dec 4, 2017 4:01 pm

UcanUwill wrote:
ghostface-OK wrote:I agree that here is Serbia football (soccer) is the most popular, and it is very sad because we are like 10x better in basketball than football I dont know why people still like that sport more over basketball

But you are pretty good at football. I imagine football is obviously the most popular in Serbia, Turkey, Greece, but Basketball is proud second. Or am I wrong? Basketball seem to have huge following in those countries.

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I'm Greek and I can confirm that you're correct. We're better at basketball than football but for some stupid reason we love football more.

Post #99 » by **Nuntius** » Mon Dec 4, 2017 4:13 pm

UcanUwill wrote:Handball being more popular than basketball is just sad to me.

It makes sense, though. Handball was invented in Denmark and has been very popular in northern Europe ever since the 19th century. It explains why basketball never really took off in those countries. Handball and basketball draw from a similar talent pool and since handball was always more popular there, basketball never got the players to take off.

Pacersike · Post #100 » by **Pacersike** » Sat Dec 9, 2017 4:48 am

Belgium

1 Soccer
2 Cycling

3 Tennis
4 Sports of which we have a great sports(wo)man/team at that time (women basketball now)

5 Sports we are not good at (men basketball at the moment)