Would college football and basketball be less exciting?
But there are a lot of reasons the business of basketball seems less important today.
In the combustible, uncertain atmosphere of Knicks basketball, the less said, the better.
With her players, she arranges bonding activities like charades and is constantly exploring ways to make basketball learning less monotonous.
International basketball is less physical because, generally speaking, it does not have the same type of athletes that the N.B.A. offers.
She will field her first team next season, in the Big West, where women's basketball is less competitive than in the Sun Belt.
Through five exhibition games, the United States excelled in basketball's less glamorous art, in trapping opponents, in pressuring and harassing them, in swatting and stealing, all practices supposedly beneath a group with the star power of this one.
Better known for football, the Georgia Dome has a basketball history less memorable than that of its concrete cousin in New Orleans, the Louisiana Superdome, home of Keith Smart's shot and Chris Webber's timeout and Fred Brown's errant pass.
B.H.: It seems like while the mainstream media outlet has somehow decided that basketball is less interesting in the post-Jordan era, but the blog world seems to be flush with talent.
Instead, Team USA insisted this was exactly the kind of challenge it needed with its first Olympic basketball game less than a week away: a rough, close contest that Coach Mike Krzyzewski called "our first real international game" and a "great game for us".
