re: With football over, we can turn our eyes to the true American sport

Basketball is the future. Globally it has twice as many fans as baseball and is second only to soccer in popularity. Football is on the decline, less kids are playing it and as a result more elite athletes will flock to basketball than ever before. Between the coming influx of American talent and how fast the sport is growing internationally, 20 years from now the sheer level of athlete and talent will be off the charts even compared to today. These young studs like Giannis, Doncic, Jokic, Embiid, Porzingis, Gobert are just tip of the iceberg internationally and we're still years away from seeing the impact of the decline in youth football participation.