This answer may be based on the fact that I play basketball a lot but a good challenging game of 5 on 5 is a great workout. There’s nothing like jumping, cutting, shooting, shuffling, running, and sprinting, etc., all to put an orange ball through a hoop. I always tend to loose like 1 or 2 lbs from the cardio that I get from several games. Not that losing weight is a great metric of fitness but, man, it is a thrill and sometimes an exhausting feeling.