Well, I find them both to be really entertaining. It's very fast paced, compared to other sports I like, and while scoring is more frequent in basketball than in hockey, they're both still equally exciting.
I guess that's just sports, in general. You have to look at each sport through a different lens with different expectations on frequency of excitement and also the overall magnitude. Most sports have the same amount of excitement. It's just do you want them in bursts, or do you want the action to be continuous, that if you blink, you could miss it. Which has happened to me in hockey and basketball many times. Baseball....eh... a go ahead solo shot is exciting, but with the bases loaded, you can pretty much flip a coin if it's a whiff or a grand slam or something in between. Same with football. You can watch even the longest of plays develop, but it's not like that in hockey or basketball.
I guess that's just sports, in general. You have to look at each sport through a different lens with different expectations on frequency of excitement and also the overall magnitude. Most sports have the same amount of excitement. It's just do you want them in bursts, or do you want the action to be continuous, that if you blink, you could miss it. Which has happened to me in hockey and basketball many times. Baseball....eh... a go ahead solo shot is exciting, but with the bases loaded, you can pretty much flip a coin if it's a whiff or a grand slam or something in between. Same with football. You can watch even the longest of plays develop, but it's not like that in hockey or basketball.