During the 2023/24 season, 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 *** million 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 ***** percent in 2023/24. 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 2023/24 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.

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.

In the 2023/24 season, the Golden State Warriors generated the most revenue from the National Basketball Association franchises. Specifically, the Golden State Warriors generated 800 million U.S. dollars in revenue by the end of the season.

During the 2023/24 season, the average revenue per franchise in the National Basketball Association (NBA) stood at ****** million U.S. dollars. This was an increase of over ** million U.S. dollars from the previous year and over double the amount from ten years prior.

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 estimated revenue from regular season ticketing as a percentage of total revenue in the National Basketball Association sank in the 2023/24 season to ***** percent. During the previous season, the figure stood at ***** percent.

In 2024, it was estimated that the newly crowned NBA champions, the Boston Celtics, would pay a luxury tax of around 41 million U.S. dollars. Since the 2006/7 season, 14 of the last 18 NBA Finals winners paid a luxury tax on their way to championship glory. The largest sum paid by any one franchise came in 2022, when the Golden State Warriors paid a staggering 170.3 million U.S. dollars in luxury tax. As part of the NBA's salary regulations, as defined in the league's collective bargaining agreement, a luxury tax is levied on teams that surpass the luxury tax threshold. The taxable sum is then evenly distributed between the NBA and the non-tax paying teams.

A January 2024 survey in the United States revealed that almost 60 percent of NBA fans who attended or watched games were male. Meanwhile, just over 40 percent of NBA fans were female.

Ahead of the 2024/25 season in the National Basketball Association (NBA), the luxury tax threshold totaled 170.81 million U.S. dollars. This was an increase of 3.3 percent from the previous season and over double the threshold from a decade prior. The NBA operates with what is known as a soft salary cap. According to the rules laid out in the collective bargaining agreement, franchises that go over the salary cap have limited freedom in transfers. However, if a team's spending on salaries goes over the luxury tax threshold, which is always higher than the salary cap, it pays a tax to the league, which is partly redistributed among the franchises that did not exceed the threshold.

A September 2024 survey in the United States revealed that 16 percent of NBA fans had a preference for the Los Angeles Lakers. In second place, the Chicago Bulls were liked by 11 percent of fans.

The operating income of the Miami Heat franchise was 62 million U.S. dollars in the 2023/24 season. This was a decrease of nearly 43 percent from the last season for the National Basketball Association team, when the figure stood at 103 million U.S. dollars.

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.

During the 2024 NBA Finals, Game 5 had the highest rating in the United States with an estimated 6.3 percent of households having tuned in to watch the Boston Celtics secure their record-breaking 18th NBA championship title against the Dallas Mavericks. Game 4 had the lowest rating with 4.7.

The operating income of the Houston Rockets franchise totaled 160 million U.S. dollars in the 2023/24 season. This was an increase of 28 percent from the previous season for the National Basketball Association team, when the figure stood at 125 million U.S. dollars.

In the 2023/24 season, the operating income of the Denver Nuggets franchise reached 57 million U.S. dollars. This represented a decrease of roughly 20 percent from the previous season for the National Basketball Association team.

The Brooklyn Nets franchise reported an operating income of 43 million U.S. dollars in the 2023/24 season. This was an improvement from the previous season, when the franchise reported five million U.S. dollars in losses.

The operating income of the Detroit Pistons franchise stood at 89 million U.S. dollars in the 2023/24 season. This denoted an increase of roughly seven percent over the previous season, when the operating income of the National Basketball Association team was 83 million U.S. dollars.

The operating income of the Atlanta Hawks franchise rose to 94 million U.S. dollars in the 2023/24 season. Based on figures going back to 2001, this was a record high for the National Basketball Association team.

During the 2023/24 season, the average operating income of a National Basketball Association franchise was ***** million U.S. dollars. While this figure was smaller than the average from the previous season, it was the second-highest since the 2001/2 season.

The operating income of the Washington Wizards franchise rose to 118 million U.S. dollars in the 2023/24 season. This denoted an increase of nearly 39 percent from the previous season for the National Basketball Association team, when the figure stood at 85 million U.S. dollars.