basketball game aspect

It means that the speaker is not interested in the aspect of politics that resembles a basketball game. We need a longer passage to know how politics resembles a basketball game.

Thank you,yitwail.

Actually it is a quote from the thrteenth paragraph of the following article.
http://www.pastemagazine.com/action/article/7754/feature/music/caching_up_with_ben_folds

Does it help?

that's an interesting article, but no, it doesn't explain what he meant. i would guess he means election politics is like a spectator sport in general, and not basketball in particular, which he only gave as an example.

I get it now!
Many thanks for your time and help.