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Lev Akabas
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NBA 🏀 & sports business 💵 data viz 📊 for Sportico
All opinions are my own
The NBA is on track for a record-setting offensive season... again

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November 14, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Carlos Alcaraz will finish 2025 as the year-end No. 1 in men's tennis

There have still only been 7 world No. 1s since 2004!
November 14, 2025 at 3:52 PM
NBA teams are valued at 13.5x revenue, more than any other sports league

The franchise valuations bake in the fact that revenues are going to increase every year thru 2035-36 due to the league's new media rights deal
November 14, 2025 at 2:39 PM
The Denver Nuggets are leading the NBA in offensive efficiency so far this season

The Dallas Mavericks are last
November 13, 2025 at 4:02 PM
The Indiana Pacers couldn't throw a rock in the ocean standing on the beach right now
November 13, 2025 at 3:01 PM
🚨 @sportico.bsky.social's F1 franchise valuations are out 🚨

Average Formula 1 franchise is worth $3.42 billion, up 48% from last year, and now higher than the average MLB franchise value

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November 13, 2025 at 2:07 PM
NBA offenses boomed from 2015 to 2025 🏀🔥📈

The 2016 Golden State Warriors, who finished 73-9 led by a record 402 threes from Steph Curry, would've had an average offense last season
November 12, 2025 at 5:56 PM
I need you guys to understand just how bad the Brooklyn Nets' defense is
November 12, 2025 at 4:39 PM
The Houston Rockets are rebounding their own misses at an absolutely unreal rate
November 12, 2025 at 2:41 PM
The 2020 Los Angeles Lakers dunked A LOT
November 11, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Offensive efficiency almost always goes up over the course of an NBA season

The average offense this season is already at 115.5 points per 100 possessions 🔥
November 11, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Matisse Thybulle is the undisputed GOAT of blocking 3-pointers

Did not expect to see Tyrese Haliburton up there
November 11, 2025 at 3:58 PM
The NBA's salary cap has ballooned in the past 10 years from $70 million in 2015-16 to $155 million in 2025-26

It will continue to rise over the next decade due to the increase in revenue from the new TV deals
November 10, 2025 at 7:15 PM
LeBron James is on track to earn $132.6 million this season from salary and endorsements combined

Full top 10 👇
November 10, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Run clubs have exploded in popularity post-COVID
November 10, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Young voters swung the New York City mayoral election for Zohran Mamdani
November 6, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Kevin Durant and Steph Curry will become just the 8th and 9th athletes to ever earn $1 billion in combined salary and endorsements while still active

(Michael Jordan hit $1 billion after his retirement)
November 6, 2025 at 3:52 PM
LeBron James will be the highest-paid player in the NBA for the 12th time in his career

He'll earn an estimated $80 million off the court this season in addition to $52.6 million in salary

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November 6, 2025 at 2:08 PM
It appears that the NBA severely underestimated the Wembanyama hype

10 other teams got more national TV / streaming games than the San Antonio Spurs this season (the league just flexed a Spurs game into primetime)
November 5, 2025 at 7:17 PM
The percentage NYC Marathon runners who are women has steadily grown over the past 50 years
November 5, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Billy Donovan is the NBA's third longest-tenured head coaches

Spo and Kerr are the only two coaches remaining from before the pandemic
November 4, 2025 at 5:21 PM
NBA pace this season has been faster than any season since the 1980s
November 3, 2025 at 6:18 PM
The Houston Rockets are rebounding 42% of their own missed shots so far this season

The highest rate by any NBA team in the past decade is 35%
November 3, 2025 at 4:56 PM
The Dodgers won back to back World Series with the No. 1 payroll in MLB both years

The team that wins it all usually has a top 10 payroll, and even teams that make the AL Championship Series or the NL Championship Series typically have top 10 payrolls
November 3, 2025 at 3:55 PM
In 2024, the highest-ranked MLB game on the top 100 most-watched TV broadcasts of the year was Game 5 of the World Series (18.2 million viewers)

According to preliminary Nielsen data, Game 7 of the 2025 World Series averaged nearly 26 million
November 3, 2025 at 2:11 PM