Charles Thomas Kinesiology is a Greek word meaning the study of movement.
Kinesiology is very important, especially to anyone in the field of athletics.
And it should be important to coaches regardless of the level of people they are coaching. The study of kinesiology has now become a science as much as anything else. That is how exercise physiology is seen also. This knowledge would be important to basketball coaches because basketball players can suffer many types of injuries. Although coaches don't need to have real in-depth knowledge of exercise physiology, they should know enough to be able to coach players through injuries.