TV Sports Basketball had its quirks, but once you got used to the control scheme, it was actually a pretty decent basketball game. IMHO, better than Lakers vs. Celtics. I spent many many hours playing that game in my youth. I just loved playing with the Wizards against the evil Outlaws! Who can forget Etherton draining 3's, Difalco attacking the basket, and Allnite Long crashing the boards...
The other TV Sports titles did not fare so well. Football was no fun at all. Hockey was a decent game, but was much inferior to EA Sports NHL.