Playing basketball is considered a Cardiovascular exercise.
Step-by-step explanation:
Cardiovascular exercise are those which increases the heart beat rate, hence while playing basketball their is increase of heart rate to a certain point. As we know that our heart is also a muscle. Therefore working it more makes it stronger.
Stronger heart means, more capillaries that delivers more oxygen to the rest of the cells in muscles. This helps the cells to burn fat during these kind of exercises. These kind of exercises includes large muscle movement, for a period of time that rises the heart rate to 50% of its maximum level.