Hmm. I know someone who works in the UK basketball industry and it's very niche as an organised sport. Attendance at local events is really low. Something that

Hmm. I know someone who works in the UK basketball industry and it's very niche as an organised sport. Attendance at local events is really low. Something that sums up basketball in the UK for me is that I have a local basketball court but the kids only play football on it. There will be ethnic/regional variation though so I'm interested in the real figures. These are the only hard figures I can find and it puts basketball behind cricket: https://www.statista.com/statistics/899184/basketball-participation-uk/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/899184/basketball-partic... https://www.statista.com/statistics/899199/cricket-participation-uk/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/899199/cricket-participa... It's ahead of rugby union but about the same if combining with the league variant (ignoring recent covid years). https://www.statista.com/statistics/899308/rugby-union-participation-uk/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/899308/rugby-union-parti... https://www.statista.com/statistics/899302/rugby-league-participation-uk/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/899302/rugby-league-part... Something to bear in mind when comparing it as a "team sport" is that it's not quite like for like. Basketball is much more accessible like tennis - it can be played casually with a couple of friends. A lot of homes will have a hoop in the garden or driveway. Cricket and rugby will mostly be organised teams, dedicated pitches etc. If the question was "do you play in a local sports team" then I expect basketball to not be comparable. There might be more people playing with a frisbee in a park than are members of a local rugby team but calling it "a more popular sport than rugby" would feel misleading by failing to account for different level of commitment/organisation required.