In fact, football has had a huge negative impact on British basketball - the same is true for football. Rutledge said that most of the young athletes with athletic talent loss early, choose football. "The Premier League is the most exported sports product in the world, so any other sport will be affected."

According to a 2016 survey of Cheap NBA Live Mobile Coins young people's sports interests, among teenagers between the ages of 14 and 25, at least 1.23 million people play football a week at least. Rugby ranked second with 180,000 and basketball third with 175,500.

Mark Woods, a veteran basketball correspondent in the United Kingdom, points out that British football schools are reluctant to relinquish their youth resources - even if they are explicitly told that certain children are better suited to other sports.