Quiet neighbours now making noise.

Four times a day is 2 hours of banging!
You are so unreasonable!

OP, if their music bothers you, how about getting some noise-cancelling headphones of your own? I used to live next door to nice but fairly noisy neighbours (nothing unreasonable, just life and children on trampoline all day etc.) and the headphones blocked it all out. I really do think in this case the onus is on you to deal with their music, given what has led up to it.

Is there no local park?

Basketball is specifically banned in our little neighbourhood because it is considered so anti social.

If you genuinely thought this hobby held value he’d he on a team with regular training, not doing it at home.

So what are you going to say?

As you have shown quite a lack of self awareness (to say the least) on this thread maybe it would be a good idea to share what you're planning to say to them so people can give feedback on how it comes across.

2-3 hours a day, over a year is still ridiculous. And you know it.

In that case you need to go over with wine and apologise properly, listen to them rant, and apologise again. You have to return the favour and no more basketball in the garden. No excuses or justifications. Apologise and listen. Nothing except sorry, we'll be silent.

It might work or they might decide to play music outside forever more. As long as volume and hours are reasonable there's nothing you can do.

*Are you expecting them to return to silence?
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If they're just doing it to make a point, it would be nice. It served them well for over a decade

Is this a joke op? it served them well for over a decade
They've been wearing headphones in their own home and your son has been bouncing a basketball for up to two hours a day and you say it'll good ifthey go back to as they were.
I think you've has a good run out of them and they've been more tolerant than most of MN would have been.
Your answer is one of the most selfish I've seen on here.

Nope - again you don't get it.
It's served YOU well for over a decade but you've worn them down.
You are a complete CF here and my guess is that your "about half an hour at a time, ... no more than three or four times a day now" is a complete underestimate.

So they’ve ’put up and shut up’ for a decade and now they’ve inconvenienced you once, you’re annoyed?

I think you know YABVVVU here, OP.

But, tbh, I don’t think your neighbours will accept an apology now. If I were them I’d think ‘tough shit, I’ve had to put up with this for years.’ I certainly wouldn’t.

Do you not understand that you cannot expect silence from them because you’ve set the precedent? They tried to be considerate by going to the extreme end of noise minimising (headphones for music is unbelievably considerate) whilst you’ve gone the extreme opposite end and only now want to meet in the middle because they’re acting like normal neighbours and it’s bothering you.

Do not go round there with any expectation of them not listening to their radio. Go round and apologise for being utterly selfish and inconsiderate and assure them that the basketball noise will stop. Don’t even attempt to broach the music situation.

It didn’t really serve them well if it was a consideration to their neighbours and they’d have preferred not to use headphones, so as they don’t get the same courtesy from their neighbours they’ve decided not to bother. Seems fair to me.

Why would you think you deserve silence but they don’t?

If you do lack awareness enough to think you should talk to them about this, definitely don’t mention the working from home. A noisy family expecting silence from me because they’ve decided to use a home as a workplace would make me feel petty enough to turn the music up louder.

They were wearing headphones to be kind and considerate, and because they never had the same respect back from you, they’ve stopped.
And it absolutely is directed at you, and good for them for doing that.
How on EARTH is that them being unfair? You’re deluded and entitled.

no, it served YOU well

You need to take him to a basketball court then, away from houses that can be bothered.

That sound is horrible.

How has listening to your child’s incessant basketball served them well?

You can’t honestly be this deluded.

YOU are a nightmare neighbour.

1. They probably had to wear headphones to hear their music over the "thump thump thump" of your son's repeated random sessions throughout the day
2. FGS talk to your neighbours and tell them he will do A MAXIMUM of 1hrs practice a day AT FIXED TIMES, no deviations from this, so they know when they will be impacted and for how long.
3. You have clearly somehow tuned out how annoying the repeated thumping noise is
4. And are you serious?? Basketball noise doesn't bother you but music does ?!?!?!?!

Music, unless it's thrash metal and loud, would not bother me in the slightest

OP should thank her lucky stars that I'm not her neighbour because that's what she'd be getting, blasted through the fence/hedge for the same amount of hours I had to listen to her darling child's boing, boing, boing 🏀 🔪 🤘

No, this has got to be a wind up 😂

Can you come to an arrangement that your son tries to play basketball sometimes when their out, ie when at work or if at least one of them is out on a certain night in the evening. Is there a club your son could join where he can play basketball to his heart's content and then limit it at home.

I love seeing our old neighbour's son playing football/basketball (luckily only ever for 5 mins at a time)/with friends in the garden and we can hear him, but it's not a constant and varies which I think names the difference here.

I guess they don't see why they should be considerate any more if it's really getting to them.