In 2024/25, the 30 franchises comprising the National Basketball Association (NBA) recorded a total revenue amounting to **** billion U.S. dollars. This was an increase of over *** billion dollars from the previous year. What are the NBA's main sources of revenue? Among the NBA's main sources of income are broadcasting deals, sponsorships, and gate receipts. In particular, the NBA's sponsorship revenue has consistently exceeded one billion U.S. dollars since the 2017/18 season. One of the league's main sponsors since then has been Nike, which is the league's official outfitter. Meanwhile, the share of overall revenue from gate receipts in the NBA was around ** percent in 2024/25. Which NBA team generates the most revenue? With a revenue of *** million U.S. dollars, the Golden State Warriors were the NBA team with the highest revenue in the 2024/25 season. Between 2015 and 2023, the Warriors were a dominant force in the NBA, appearing in six of eight finals and winning four championships, ending their trophy drought stretching back to 1975. However, the Warriors still have some way to go to match the Boston Celtics and the Los Angeles Lakers as the NBA teams with the most championships, with the Celtics winning a record **** championship title in 2024.

In 2024/25, the Golden State Warriors generated the most revenue from the National Basketball Association franchises. Specifically, the Golden State Warriors generated 880 million U.S. dollars in revenue by the end of the season.

In the 2024 season, roughly *** billion U.S. dollars of the revenue generated in the NBA was national revenue. Meanwhile, team sponsorships made up *** billion U.S. dollars of the revenue generated by the league in that season.

The NBA and WNBA are the two top leagues for basketball in the United States for men and women, respectively. In the NBA in 2024, players were paid around 50 percent of the league revenue. In comparison, players in the WNBA took home around 10 percent of the revenue generated in the league.

During the 2024/25 season, the average revenue per franchise in the National Basketball Association (NBA) stood at ****** million U.S. dollars. This marked an increase of around 10 percent from the previous year and over double the amount from ten years prior.

In the 2024/25 season, the sponsorship revenue of teams in the National Basketball Association (NBA) increased by eight percent over the previous season, reaching 1.62 billion U.S. dollars. Who are the NBA’s main sponsors? Before the introduction of jersey sponsors for the 2017/18 season, Nike signed an eight-year deal in 2015 with the NBA to become the league’s new official outfitter. The NBA also partners with technology giants such as Microsoft and Rakuten and, more recently, struck sponsorship deals with cryptocurrency companies like the crypto-based gaming company Sorare. Some NBA franchises, however, have been unfortunate in their choice of cryptocurrency sponsors, with the Miami Heat and the Golden State Warriors both seeing their partnerships with FTX fall apart after the latter’s bankruptcy in 2022. What is the total revenue of the NBA? Except for a slump during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, the total league revenue of the NBA has also grown significantly in the last decade and stood at over 10 billion U.S. dollars in 2024. Making up a significant share of this total was the Golden State Warriors, whose revenue stream of 800 million U.S. dollars in 2024 made it the NBA franchise with the most revenue that year. With four NBA championships to their name since 2015, the Warriors’ financial performance has been a fair reflection of the franchise’s on-court performance.

The estimated revenue from regular season ticketing as a percentage of total revenue in the National Basketball Association sank in the 2024/25 season to ***** percent. During the previous season, the figure stood at ***** percent.

As of 2024, the largest luxury tax bill footed by a team in the NBA came in the 2023/24 season, when the Golden State Warriors were taxed 176.9 million U.S. dollars by the league. The Warriors also held the other top-three spots, bringing their overall luxury tax payments from 2021/22 to 2023/24 to 510.9 million U.S. dollars.

The average franchise value of National Basketball Association (NBA) franchises increased nearly twentyfold between 2001 and 2025. In 2025, the average franchise value within the league amounted to 5.36 billion U.S. dollars. What is the most valuable NBA franchise? According to Forbes’ NBA Team Valuations, the Golden State Warriors had a value of 11 billion U.S. dollars in 2025, making them the most valuable team in the NBA. In second place were the Los Angeles Lakers, with a value of 10 billion U.S. dollars. When it came to revenue, which is a key indicator of franchise value, the Warriors also topped the rankings for NBA teams with the highest revenue in the 2024/25 season. In a distant second place were the Los Angeles Clippers, with a revenue of 569 million U.S. dollars. How do other leagues compare? In the rankings of the most valuable major sports leagues in North America, the National Football League (NFL) has been the clear leader for a number of years. In 2024, the average franchise value in the NFL increased by over one billion U.S. dollars from the previous year to reach above seven billion U.S. dollars. Meanwhile, the NBA had the second-highest average franchise value among North American sports leagues, trailed by Major League Baseball and the National Hockey League in third and fourth, respectively.

During the 2024/25 season, the average operating income of a National Basketball Association franchise was ****** million U.S. dollars. This marked an increase of ***** percent from the previous season and was an all-time high in the history of the NBA.

During the 2024/25 season, the revenue of the Milwaukee Bucks franchise amounted to 355 million U.S. dollars. This represented an increase of approximately six percent over the previous season, where the team's revenue stood at 333 million U.S. dollars. Which NBA team has the highest revenue? During the 2024/25 season, the Golden State Warriors, based in San Francisco, was the leading NBA franchise in terms of revenue, generating 880 million U.S. dollars. At the same time, their star player, Stephen Curry, ranked as the NBA's second-highest-paid player in 2025, with a salary of approximately 59.6 million U.S. dollars.
Milwaukee Bucks The Milwaukee Bucks are a professional basketball franchise of the National Basketball Association (NBA), entering the league as an expansion team in 1968. The Bucks won one NBA championship in 1971. They currently play their home games at the Bradley Center, which has a capacity of 20 thousand for basketball games. The second all-time leading scorer of the NBA, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar played for the franchise from 1969 to 1975.

In the 2024/25 season, the Sacramento Kings generated 354 million U.S. dollars in revenue. This was an increase of around ten percent from the previous season for the National Basketball Association franchise based in California’s state capital. How do the Sacramento Kings generate income? Making up roughly 17 percent of the franchise’s revenue in the 2024/25 season were the Sacramento Kings’ gate receipts, which totaled 61 million U.S. dollars. This was below the NBA's average share of revenue per team from ticket sales, which in the 2024/25 season was 21.43 percent. In terms of teams with the highest revenue in the NBA, the Kings were one of the lowest-ranking teams in the league in 2024/25, generating less than half the figure recorded by the top-ranking Golden State Warriors. Who sponsors the Sacramento Kings? Alongside ticket sales, sponsorship revenue in the NBA also provides franchises with significant sources of income. In 2025 alone, the NBA generated roughly 1.62 billion U.S. dollars from sponsorships. Some of the notable sponsors of the Sacramento Kings include Golden 1 Credit Union, which acquired naming rights for the Kings’ arena that opened in 2016, as well as Empress 1908 Gin and Dulce Vida Tequila. Partnerships with spirits companies, tequila brands in particular, have become widespread in the NBA in recent years; this has by no means been limited to franchises, nor has it been a one-way street, with players such as LeBron James and Anthony Davis having invested their own money into the tequila brand Lobos 1707.

The Miami Heat franchise reported an operating income of 110 million U.S. dollars in the 2024/25 season. Player expenses for the National Basketball Association team rose substantially, increasing by roughly three-quarters from the previous season, when they stood at 62 million U.S. dollars.

The operating income of the Utah Jazz franchise stood at 103 million U.S. dollars in the 2024/25 season. This denoted an increase of around 16 percent from the previous season for the National Basketball Association team, when the figure stood at 89 million U.S. dollars.

With an estimated net worth of 11 billion U.S. dollars, the Golden State Warriors franchise was the most valuable team in the National Basketball Association (NBA) in 2025. Trailing in second place were the Los Angeles Lakers with a value of 10 billion U.S. dollars. How much revenue does the NBA generate? For the 2024/25 season, NBA teams generated combined revenues of over 12 billion U.S. dollars; regular season ticketing in the NBA accounted for about a fifth of the total. That season, the Golden State Warriors and the Los Angeles Clippers were the NBA franchises that generated the most revenue, with 880 million U.S. dollars and 569 million U.S. dollars, respectively. Meanwhile, the average franchise value in the NBA registered a significant growth between 2014 and 2024, rising from 634 million U.S. dollars to over four billion U.S. dollars. Sports team values Compared to the National Football League (NFL), franchises in the NBA are, on average, worth less. However, since 2018, teams in the NBA have become more valuable than the average team valuation in Major League Baseball (MLB). In 2024, the average franchise value in the National Football League (NFL) was around 5.69 billion, whereas Major League Baseball teams had an average value of over 2.4 billion U.S. dollars. The most valuable NFL franchise was the Dallas Cowboys, valued at 13 billion U.S. dollars in 2025. That year in the MLB, the New York Yankees, with an estimated worth of over eight billion U.S. dollars, were the most valuable MLB franchise.

In the 2024/25 season, the operating income of the Denver Nuggets franchise reached 67 million U.S. dollars. This represented an increase of roughly 17.5 percent from the previous season for the National Basketball Association team.

During the 2024/25 season, the Miami Heat generated 417 million dollars in revenue. This was an increase of 44 million U.S. dollars from the previous year for the three-time National Basketball Association (NBA) champions. What are the Miami Heat’s sources of income? A significant chunk of the team’s net income is from the Miami Heat’s gate receipts, which made up just under a quarter of its total revenue in 2024/25. This however exceeded the average share of revenue from ticketing in the NBA, which stood at 21.43 percent that season. Despite losing its stadium sponsor, FTX, following the latter's bankruptcy in 2022, the Heat also have a wide array of partnership deals with companies such as jersey patch sponsor Carnival Cruise Line and new stadium sponsor Kaseya. What is the average revenue of an NBA franchise? In addition to the Heat outperforming the league’s average in revenue from gate receipts, the franchise was also slightly ahead of the NBA's average for revenue per franchise. Nevertheless, the Heat were far behind the Golden State Warriors, whose net income of 880 million U.S. dollars in 2024/25 made them the NBA team with the highest revenue that year.

In the 2024/25 season, the Golden State Warriors had the highest operating income from all the National Basketball Association teams. Specifically, the NBA franchise reported an operating income of *** million U.S. dollars by the end of the season.

The operating income of the Chicago Bulls franchise amounted to 160 million U.S. dollars during the 2024/25 season. This denoted an increase of roughly 14 percent over the previous season, when the operating income of the National Basketball Association team was 140 million U.S. dollars.

The operating income of the Orlando Magic franchise rose to 82 million U.S. dollars in the 2023/24 season. This denoted an increase of around 24 percent from the previous season for the National Basketball Association team, when the figure stood at 66 million U.S. dollars.