awesome-nba-data

Lineup, five-player-unit, on/off, physicality, and game-analysis archives with current-season research.

Unofficial historical reference for player, team, season, and game pages; automated reuse is governed by Sports Reference's data-use policy.

Derived role, skill, and LEBRON tooling with a mix of public and paid access.

Paid analytics that filter garbage time and provide team, player, and lineup views.

Player/team dashboards and meta-metrics (DARKO, DRIP, LEBRON, RAPTOR, CraftedPM), comparisons, and roles.

Derived Estimated Plus-Minus and team-rating leaderboards with a public methodology page.

Ben Taylor's long-form analytics pieces and historical series.

NBA coverage largely archived; RAPTOR explainer still valuable.

API-key service with free teams, players, and games; statistics, play-by-play, lineups, injuries, and odds require paid tiers.

Open-source R package and bulk loaders for men's basketball data, including NBA play-by-play releases from 2002 onward.

Community dataset index where provenance, license, coverage, and correction behavior must be checked per dataset.

Unofficial MIT-licensed Python client for NBA.com endpoints; upstream schemas and endpoints change without a public stability contract.

Open-source parser that derives possessions, lineups, and shot-zone context from NBA, WNBA, and G League play-by-play.

Paid API documentation for derived possession, lineup, on-off, and WOWY data.

Unofficial Python scraper retained for legacy research; Sports Reference policy review is required before automated use.

Open-source analytical database for local SQL over Parquet and reproducible research snapshots.

Open-source DataFrame engine suited to typed, lazy transformations over Parquet and other analytical formats.

Basketball-Reference methodology for estimating player contribution per 100 possessions from box-score data.

Explanation of field-goal percentage adjusted for the added value of three-pointers.

Dunks & Threes methodology for its player-impact estimate.

Basketball Index introduction to its player-impact metric and design goals.

Discussion of team or lineup point differential per 100 possessions and its limitations.

Overview of John Hollinger's pace-adjusted box-score summary metric.

Analytics, history, and film breakdowns.

Reporting and analysis.

Film + stats breakdowns, metric explainers, historical series.

Official league site for scores, schedules, standings, news, and video; use remains subject to NBA terms.

Official press releases for transactions, awards, schedule changes, and league announcements.

Official, season-specific reports containing participation statuses and stated reasons that teams update throughout reporting windows; this changing web reference is not a historical bulk-data API.

Official rulebook, Coach's Challenge, and Last Two Minute report hub.

Official filterable transaction reference for signings, waivers, trades, and other roster moves; the public page does not establish a documented bulk-data license.

Official stats portal for box scores, play-by-play, shooting, tracking summaries, lineups, and Hustle data; it is not a published bulk-data license.

Licensed B2B NBA feeds with schedules, rosters, statistics, play-by-play, change logs, and provider identifiers.

Commercial NBA feeds for scores, statistics, play-by-play, injuries, projections, and betting data with subscription-specific access.