Is it random they're into basketball or that they're into a foreign league? People follow lots of foreign soccer leagues, this is the same thing. Basketball is

Is it random they're into basketball or that they're into a foreign league? People follow lots of foreign soccer leagues, this is the same thing. Basketball is a quite popular sport internationally, unlike the 2 other big American inventions: baseball and football. Only a handful of countries outside the US have professional baseball leagues[1]. And other than Canada I don't know any country that has a professional football (gridiron) league. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional_baseball https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional_baseball