Basketball Sport Features
The Basketball plugin is purely a configuration layer on top of SportsPress. The features it adds are:
Default sport preset
On activation, the plugin filters sportspress_default_sport to return basketball. This means the SportsPress configuration screen (SportsPress → Configure) loads basketball-specific defaults: result types (Points), performance metrics (Points, Rebounds, Assists, Steals, Blocks, etc.), and equation builder presets tailored to box-score-style game scoring.
To change the active sport later, go to SportsPress → Configure and select a different preset from the Sport dropdown. The basketball plugin doesn't lock you in — it simply biases the initial defaults.
Admin asset enhancements
The plugin enqueues css/admin.css and js/admin.js only on sp_event and edit-sp_event admin screens. These tweak the event edit layout for basketball-specific box-score entry — for example, by adjusting column widths in the player performance table to fit basketball's larger statistic count.
The assets do not load on other admin pages, so they have no impact on overall admin performance.
What the plugin does NOT add
No settings page
No new meta boxes
No new template sections (basketball uses SportsPress's standard team / player / event templates)
No new widgets or shortcodes
No partial-statistic conversion (basketball doesn't need any)
If you need basketball-specific features beyond what's in the SportsPress core (e.g. live scoring, advanced shot-chart visualisation), you'll need a custom plugin or theme override.