professional basketball is more entertaining than professional soccer. as a fan view, entertainment comes from fast passed games specialized star athletes, comebacks and constant pressure. these aspects that are known and recognized to be entertaining in the sport world leans more towards basketball over soccer as in professional basketball, games are extremely fast passed as their is a shooting clock that forces athletes to make their shot while soccer is very slow pasted as the field is very big compared to basketball field. basketball athletes are far more specialized in their skill sets for example Victor Wembanyama is known as an "alien" because he has very extraordinary skill set and insane height genetics that may not be produced any more in the future compared to soccer starts that aren't different from one another and perform the same penalty shots headers from one to another. due to the point game in basketball, teams may score a lot of points in a short period of time that creates the opportunity of insane comebacks that soccer cannot reproduce with its point system as a goal is far less likely to score than a dunk for example. thus basketball exceed in these aspects that are known to be entertaining