Young voters swung the New York City mayoral election for Zohran Mamdani

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)

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 Read more: wp.me/pc2RuA-1lzpE9

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)

The percentage NYC Marathon runners who are women has steadily grown over the past 50 years

Billy Donovan is the NBA's third longest-tenured head coaches Spo and Kerr are the only two coaches remaining from before the pandemic

Ja Morant hasn't played in 10 straight games since January 5th, 2023 LeBron - 4/11/25 Kawhi - 2/23/25 Davis - 12/31/24 LaMelo - 11/27/24 Kyrie - 11/12/24 Zion - 4/3/24 Embiid - 11/21/23 Morant - 1/5/23

Made a table to illustrate this for last night’s post on Bounces:

NBA pace this season has been faster than any season since the 1980s

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%

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

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

Daniel Jones, Baker Mayfield, Sam Darnold and Matthew Stafford are all thriving with contracts in the "mid tier" for NFL quarterbacks There are only seven QB salaries that are more than the rookie scale but less than 15% of the cap, per @spotrac.com

Barry Bonds was a joke

The Los Angeles Lakers sale for $10 billion is approved @sportico.bsky.social ranks them as the 5th most valuable sports franchise in the world

Alejandro Davidovich Fokina surpassed $10 million in career prize money yesterday 🎾💵 He has still never won a title ❌🏆

The Detroit Pistons dunked a LOT last year The Chicago Bulls... not so much

Interesting data from @kevinoconnornba.bsky.social via @yahoosports.bsky.social... NBA teams are using full court press way more often this season Some teams, like the Portland Trail Blazers, are taking the strategy to the extreme

The highest-paid athlete in each sport last year 👇 Any names surprise you?

There are now 23 NBA players from Canada 🇨🇦 and 19 from France 🇫🇷 Brazil 🇧🇷, on the other hand, has gone from 9 NBA players to 1 in the past decade

Ok I know it's early in the season, but I think we have to talk about the fact that the Brooklyn Nets defense is allowing 132 points per 100 possessions

The Los Angeles Dodgers overtook the New York Yankees in total revenue last year

Shoehi Ohtani earned roughly $102 million this year $2 million from salary, and $100 million from endorsements No other baseball player makes >$10 million from endorsemenets

The Boston Celtics are having trouble rebounding...

The Los Angeles Dodgers' 2025 luxury tax bill is higher than the entire payroll of 13 MLB teams 💵

All NBA franchise valuations are way up over the past five years... But most of the top 10 teams are only +100%, while many of the lower value teams are +200% The increase in shared national media revenue has impacted the small-market teams more than the big-market teams

NBA rookies have gotten younger and younger

Gambling isn’t the only eye-catching part of Thursday’s federal indictment in the NBA betting case. It also puts tanking back in the spotlight by alleging that the 2022-23 Blazers intentionally lost games (and leaked inside info about said strategy) My take: www.sportico.com/leagues/bask...

Your guide to which networks are airing NBA games on which days this season 🏀📺👀🗓️

NBA on NBC's Opening Night featuring Thunder vs. Rockets and Warriors vs. Lakers averaged 5.61 million viewers That's up 87% over last year's Opening Night on TNT 🏀📺👀📈

The NBA has a new all-time points per game leader... 👀

Relevant today: Americans have gambled more than $500 billion on sports in the past five years, and are gambing more and more each year

Reminder that Wemby was second in the NBA in steals + blocks last season despite playing just 46 games!

Who gets what in the new NBA media rights deal? 👇 🏀📺💰

Incredible fact: The West had more All-NBA players than the East for 26 consecutive seasons until last year

NBA national TV / streaming games in 2025-26 👇 • More games overall with the league's new media partners 🙂 • LeBron & Steph still tied at the top with OKC 🏆 • Rockets with the biggest jump of any team 📈 • 76ers, Suns, & Pelicans 📉

Here are the most-followed NBA players on Instagram heading into the 2025-26 season 👇 A lot of older players. 12 of the top 16 play in the West

The NBA has set a new record for offensive efficiency in 5 of the past 7 seasons 🏀🔥📈 Will points per 100 possessions go up again this season or finally plateau?

There are an all-time record 135 international NBA players this season 🌎🏀📈 Not to mention, the last 7 MVP awards have been won by foreign-born players

NBA teams made 38% of their money in 2024-25 from central revenue The new media deals would have bumped that number up to 44% if in place last year... the TV payout jumps to $143M per team this season from $103M How the NBA makes money, from @kbadenhausen.bsky.social: wp.me/pc2RuA-1lzpbk

The Western Conference has had a winning record against the Eastern Conference in 23 of the past 26 NBA seasons This year should make it 24 out of 27

If you're a fan of my data visualizations, please follow me over on Instagram. I've been posting a lot of new stuff there recently www.instagram.com/datakabas/

The modern NBA is becoming No Country for Short Men Guys 6'3'' and under are getting phased out in favor of taller ball-handlers Full article: wp.me/pc2RuA-1lzkhP

The MLB World Series champion will have an above average payroll for the 13th time in the past 14 seasons

The 60+ yard field goal is no longer special

If you were hoping we'd see fewer 3-pointers in the NBA this season, you're out of luck

Offensive rebounding is WAY up in the 2025 NBA preseason Get ready for a year of teams crashing the glass Read more: wp.me/pc2RuA-1lzp8Z

Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner will play on Saturday for $6 million in the finals of the Six Kings Slam in Saudi Arabia

How big are the new media deals for NBA teams? The contracts with Amazon, ESPN/ABC & NBC will bump each team’s TV revenue from $103 million to $143 million Each team is on track for $281 million for the 2035-36 season, based on a 30-team league and payouts rising ~7% per year

Every NBA team's value has grown dramatically, but by far the biggest gains have been with teams at the bottom of the list The floor has risen almost 2.5x since 2022