NBA Stats

About NBA Stats

The NBA Statistics Go API provides REST access to NBA player statistics, game data, and shot chart information, covering both regular season and playoff periods. It offers endpoints for games, player totals, player advanced stats, and player shot chart data, with historical data available from the 1946-47 season onward and current-season data updated daily within 2-4 hours after games conclude.

Requests are made against a base URL and return JSON responses. Stats and games endpoints support pagination via page and pageSize parameters, along with common query parameters such as season, team, playerId, isPlayoff, and sorting options. No authentication is currently required to access the public endpoints, and no rate limiting is enforced, though the documentation recommends client-side throttling and caching for large data pulls.

This API is suited for developers building applications or analyses that require structured NBA data, such as player performance stats, team game results, or shot chart visualizations. Player IDs follow the Basketball Reference naming convention, and team abbreviations follow standard three-letter NBA codes. The provider notes that future versions may introduce API key authentication for rate limiting and usage tracking.

Key features

• Historical and current-season NBA player, team, and game data via REST
• Player total and advanced season statistics with cursor-based pagination
• Player shot chart data endpoint (fixed page size of 50)
• Filter by season, team, player ID, and playoff vs regular season
• Sort results by fields like points, assists, or win shares
• Historical data available from the 1946-47 season, updated daily 2-4 hours after games

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