I'm going to dabble in it and see how it goes once I'm in a routine. My wife's more of a morning person (more than me). I'm a night person. However, I've found that it doesn't matter how early I go to bed (or how late), I still feel the exact same in the morning and it does not cause me to wake up early, so I feel it's more wasted time to go to bed earlier. That said, I'm not staying up super late. Usually 11:30 or midnight. The issue with working out in the morning is that I really need a "clear the deck" time to prep myself for the day. Some people can do that with exercise, and who knows maybe it will work that way for me, but historically that I need nothing other than sitting there dreading the day.
As far as running, I hate running (kinda). Or at least I did. It wasn't until after I had gotten back from a mission and started running on a treadmill with the TV going at the gym that I realized I could tolerate it, because the TV would distract from how miserable it was. I don't watch TV when I run now, and really haven't since... I don't know. But because that's been the most efficient way for me to exercise, it's become my go-to. The past two times I've gone out for actual basketball, I've suffered achilles ruptures, and I'm a little more than 8 years out from my last one, so I view myself as essentially retired from playing basketball the way I'd like to. I've played, but it's really just 1 on 1 with my son, for the most part. I can't mentally go through another rupture as I've got way too much to do to get side tracked with that, so running it is. Though basketball is most certainly a better, more enjoyable, more efficient, and more total workout.