An average of **** million viewers tuned in to watch NBA regular season games across ABC, ESPN and TNT in the 2024/25 season. This marked a slight decline in the number of viewers from the previous season.

The games of the 2024 NBA Finals had an average TV rating of ***. The 2024 championships were contested between the Boston Celtics and the Dallas Mavericks and saw the Celtics win 4-1 to claim their record-breaking **** NBA title in franchise history.

The NBA All-Star game is an annual basketball exhibition game contested between the Eastern Conference and Western Conference All-Stars. The 24 players featured in the game are selected through a voting process among fans, players, and media. The 2025 All-Star game was watched by 4.72 million viewers, which was a decrease of 13 percent from the 5.4 million viewers who tuned into the previous year's game.

Millions of households across the United States tune in to watch NBA games every week during the season. Fans of the San Antonio Spurs seem to be particularly invested in their local team, with the household rating in the local TV market reaching 3.51 during the 2019/20 NBA season.

The dataset contains data for each of the players who have interacted with the NBA during a specific period of time (last season) and collects all the accumulated statistics. In addition, it summarizes the performance of each player through the rest of the data by means of the player efficiency rating (PER) variable, a metric that takes into account all the data extracted from a player.

First held in 1947, the National Basketball Association (NBA) Draft is an annual pre-season event through which teams in the league select recruits from a pool of college and professional men's basketball players. The 2025 NBA Draft was shown on ESPN and ABC in the United States and attracted an average viewership of **** million viewers. The previous year had reached a record-high of **** million viewers.

The 2025 NBA Finals were watched by an average of **** million viewers in the United States. This marked a decline from the previous year when **** million viewers tuned in to watch the Boston Celtics clinch a record 18th NBA championship win against the Dallas Mavericks. How did the 2025 Finals play out? The 2025 championship series was contested between the Oklahoma City Thunder, champions of the Western Conference, and the Indiana Pacers, winners of the Eastern Conference. The Thunder emerged victorious in a back-and-forth seven game series, with Shai Gilgeous-Alexander adding a championship ring to his NBA MVP and NBA Finals MVP awards for the 2025 season. Celebrations, however, were somewhat overshadowed by a horror Achilles heel injury sustained by Pacers star Tyrese Haliburton in Game 7. How did viewership of the NBA Finals compare to other major US sporting events? In 2025, NBA Finals viewership was only a fraction of the number of viewers of the Super Bowl in the U.S., with the latter exceeding *** million that year. Meanwhile, viewership of the World Series was more comparable to that of the NBA Finals, reaching over 14 million in 2024.

The National Basketball Association is a professional basketball league for men with ** teams competing against each other in the United States and Canada. During a 2020 survey in the United States, ** percent of NBA fans stated that they were Democrats.

The 2024 Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) regular season games were watched by an average of ******* viewers across media platforms in the United States. This was a significant increase from the previous year and made the **** season the league’s highest-viewed regular season in the last 24 years.

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.

As of April 2024, the National Basketball Association’s (NBA) official X (formerly Twitter) page had ***** million followers. Meanwhile, the NBA’s Facebook page had ***** million fans. Both social media followings have experienced near-constant growth since September 2012; however, as of April 2024, the league’s Facebook fan base has decreased. Conversely, the NBA’s X following has increased by approximately *** million followers every six months since March 2021. Which NBA team has the largest social media following? With approximately ** million followers, the Los Angeles Lakers were the most-followed NBA franchise on X as of 2024. Having last won the Finals in 2020, the Lakers are also tied with the Boston Celtics as the NBA team with the most championships. A key component of their Finals victory in 2020 was LeBron James, who won the Finals MVP that season. James’ status as a modern-day sporting icon is reflected in his sponsorship deals, which made him the NBA’s highest-paid player in 2023. Do NFL teams have larger social media presences? In what is perhaps a reflection of the NBA’s global appeal rather than its popularity in North America, the Lakers’ Twitter following was roughly ***** times larger than that of the NFL team with the most X followers, the New England Patriots, in 2023. Looking outside of North America, NBA franchises are, however, still far behind soccer teams such as Manchester United, whose X following of over ** million made it the most followed soccer club in the Premier League.

The National Basketball Association is a professional basketball league in North America. While ** percent of fans of the NBA identified as Democrats, this number varied between fans of each individual team. Approximately ** percent of Golden State Warriors fans were Democrats, while this figure stood at ** percent among supporters of the Memphis Grizzlies.

The average per game attendance during the 2024/25 regular season of the National Basketball Association stood at ******. This marked a slight decrease from the previous season, however, was the second-highest average attendance recorded since 2010/11. NBA attendances The total attendance at regular season games in the NBA also dipped marginally in the 2024/25 season, however, remained over an aggregate total of ** million. The Chicago Bulls had the highest average regular season home attendance among all NBA franchises that year - over ****** spectators attended home games in 2024/25. Meanwhile, the Philadelphia 76ers, the New York Knicks, and the Denver Nuggets also recorded some of the highest average home attendances. NBA TV audiences Over the last five years, the average TV audience for the NBA's regular season has minimally but steadily decreased. During the 2024/25 season, an average of **** million viewers tuned into each NBA regular season fixture across ABC, ESPN, and TNT. The decline in viewership of the NBA Finals, however, has been more dramatic, with the average audience in the United States nearly halving between 2015 and 2024.

The National Football League (NFL) was the most watched sports league in the United States in 2023. Viewers watched a combined 974.7 billion minutes of football action across the 284 televised games between November 2022 and November 2023. Meanwhile, Major League Baseball (MLB) ranked second with a little less than 330 billion combined minutes from viewers.

How much does a Super Bowl ad cost?

The price of running an ad during the Super Bowl has tripled over the past two decades. In 2024, advertisers paid an average of seven million U.S. dollars to air a 30-second commercial during the Super Bowl LVI broadcast. The renowned sporting event is highly anticipated each year and is watched by millions around the world. In the U.S., the 2024 edition of the Super Bowl was watched by over 123 million Americans.

How many people watch the World Series?

Unlike the Super Bowl, MLB World Series TV viewership experienced an overall decrease over the past two decades. The games of the 2023 World Series, in which the Texas Rangers achieved a five-game series win over the Arizona Diamondbacks, were watched by around nine million viewers. This shows a considerable drop from the previous year, when nearly 12 million people tuned in to see the Houston Astros win the Commissioner’s Trophy.

The National Basketball Association has one of the highest percentages of African American players from the big four professional sports leagues in North America. In 2023, approximately **** percent of NBA players were African American. Meanwhile, ethnically white players constituted a **** percent share of all NBA players that year. After the WNBA and NBA, the National Football League had the largest share of African Americans in a professional sports league in North America. How do other roles in the NBA compare? When it comes to African American representation in the NBA, no other role in the NBA is as well represented by African Americans as players. Meanwhile, on the opposite end of the scale, less than **** percent of team governors in the NBA were African American in 2023. During the 2022/23 season, the role with the second-highest share of African Americans was head coach, with a share of ** percent. That season, the number of African American head coaches in the NBA exceeded the number of white head coaches for the first time. African Americans in the NFL In 2022, the greatest share of players by ethnicity in the NFL were African American, with more than half of all NFL players falling within this group. The representation of African Americans in American Football extended beyond the playing field, with **** percent of NFL assistant coaches being African American in 2022 as well. However, positions such as vice presidents and head coaches were less representative of the African American population, as less than ** percent of the individuals fulfilling these roles in 2022 were African American.

Sport is a varied hobby that is enjoyed by young and old alike. During a January 2021 survey in the United States, ** percent of parents of Gen Z children stated that their child watched soccer, while ** percent claimed that their child watched eSports.

The COVID-19 pandemic that spread across the world at the beginning of 2020 was not only a big threat to public health, but also to the entire sports industry. Several professional sports leagues, including the NBA and NHL, as well as most professional soccer leagues in Europe, took the decision to postpone or suspend their seasons in order to mitigate the spread of the disease. In a March 2020 survey, ** percent of respondents strongly agreed with the sentiment that they would be more likely to watch PGA Tour golf due to the suspension or cancellation of other sports like the NBA, NHL, MLS, NCAA basketball and spring training baseball.

The Chicago Bulls had the highest average regular season home attendance of all National Basketball Association teams in the 2024/25 season. The average regular season home attendance of the Bulls franchise that season was ******.

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.

Founded in 1996, the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) is a professional basketball league composed of 12 teams from the United States. The Indiana Fever registered the highest average attendance across the 2023 season with 17,036. That season, the Fever secured the services of college basketball sensation Caitlin Clark, who went on to break a series of rookie and all-time records. One such record was the number of assists made in a single WNBA game. Player salaries in the WNBA Jackie Young of the Las Vegas Aces was the highest earner in the WNBA in the 2024 season, having earned an annual salary of 252 thousand U.S. dollars. Meanwhile, looking at the average annual salaries in the WNBA vs. the NBA, the average WNBA player took home around 120 thousand U.S. dollars at the end of the year, which was nearly 100 times lower than the average NBA player salary. WNBA league records Since the opening season in 1997, former and current WNBA players have been setting high standards and surpassing old ones throughout the course of the competition. Sue Bird was the career games leader of the WNBA, having played 580 professional games prior to her retirement in 2022. Meanwhile, the WNBA's all-time scoring leader was Diana Taurasi, who began her career with the Phoenix Mercury in 2004. Overall, three WNBA teams held the record for most WNBA championships during the history of the league, all winning four championships apiece.