Whether or not you can play basketball with a lumbar bulging disc depends on the severity of the condition. In mild cases, you can play basketball, but if the condition is severe, strenuous exercise is usually not recommended for the acute stage. If the lumbar disc bulge is only mild, and the symptoms are not obvious, and can be normal activities, usually can play basketball. However, if the current lumbar disc bulge symptoms are more serious and the patient is unable to move normally, it is not recommended to play basketball, otherwise it will cause acute lumbar injury, which is not conducive to the control of the condition, and in any case, it is not recommended to exercise in the acute stage. If the lumbar disc herniation patients like to exercise, you can insist on practicing yoga, lumbar back muscle training, etc., can exercise lumbar spine stability, prompting the lumbar spine function to return to normal. Lumbar disc bulge should be timely treatment, minor lumbar disc bulge can be conservative treatment, the effect of conservative treatment is not good and then consider surgical treatment, specific should follow the doctor’s instructions.