What are the fringe benefits of a professional basketball player?

Basketball gets you in shape from running up and down a court for four 6-10 minutes quarters, which end up being longer than that because of fouls and time outs. Basketball training and practice also gets you in shape from stretching and other works outs. Not only does the sport help physically, but it helps mentally too. It teaches you to listen and take directions from your coach will help later on in life with bosses of your job, possibly. It teaches you to work with a team and other people as well, which comes in handy as far as jobs go as well. A lot of benefits come from playing this sport.