Oh, this will be fun!
Badminton
1.) The thing you hit is a called a Shuttlecock.
2.) A dude once smashed a shuttlecock at 493km/hr, or 306mph.
3.) You smash your shuttlecock at other people with the intent to kill them. In Basketball, you shoot a stupid ball at a metal hole that doesn't even have a "goalie"
4.) Everything in basketball is a foul. In Badminton, the only foul is if you can't hit the shuttlecock over the net when you're serving, because hey, dont be a wuss, hit that thing over the net like a man.
5.) Basketball was invented by a dude who worked for the YMCA and was bored. Badminton was invented by military dudes who were bored.
6.) Badminton is played to 21 points, which means points mean something. Why even give points if you can score over 100 of them in a game?
7.) In basketball, there's a timer for having to bring the ball out of your own half of the court. You know why? Because people were stalling in their own zone, trying to burn time off the clock. And they were burning time off because they realized "Hey, this sport sucks, I don't really want to play more basketball." Then some douche bag had to go and make a timer for it, so people had to actually play basketball. There's no timer in badminton because people actually want to play badminton.
8.) Badminton has one set of rules, and one set of rules only. That's because it's a good game. People got so bored of basketball that they invented things like Slamball (Basketball with trampolines), 21- HORSE, and Knockout, just to make it somewhat bearable to watch/play.
9.) You can play badminton on just about any surface, such as a nice beach or grassy field. Try playing basketball on any of those surfaces.
10.) You are always playing in badminton. In basketball, you first off stand around while you're waiting for the other team to bring the ball out of their zone, and even after than, you might run around for 30 seconds (because there's also a shot clock timer; again, to make people actually have to play the game properly), yet you have numerous substitutions because players are "tired." Tired of playing basketball is more like it.
