To each his own. I love basketball. Basketball has it's flaws for sure, but the lack of personalities in hockey is a turnoff. I watched NHL All-Star break stuff, and while it's set up the same as the NBA, you don't see the players personalities show like you do with the NBA, which is half the fun -- seeing guys like Shaq, Agent Zero, etc. I do like college basketball more than the NBA, come tournament time, anyway, because it almost seems like NBA players are too good. 'll watch college basketball all day too. Just this weekend I was watching Moorehead vs. Atlanta Clark... I have no attachment to either team, couldn't tell you where Moorehead is and didn't know that Atlanta Clark was a college, even.
Like I said, basketball has it's problems, but hockey's are far, far worse.