The IOC's decision last week to allow the organizers of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics to move the basketball competition out to Saitama Super Arena puts an end to any hope the sport ever had of becoming high profile in Japan.

The original plans had called for the construction of a new basketball arena in the Ariake area that will be the centerpiece of the games, but that proposal was dropped.

The term "cost-cutting" has been used liberally to justify the move. I think something like "profit-increasing" would be more accurate.