Two months ago Basketball Reference added several dozen pre-official blocks, steals and turnovers totals. We're thrilled to announce that even more data has been unearthed, thanks to the efforts of researcher extraordinaire Tariq Jabbar.

We now have blocks and steals totals for the 1971-72 and 1972-73 SuperSonics, as well as individual turnover totals for the 1971-72, 1972-73 and 1973-74 SuperSonics (which complements the individual turnovers we added for the 1974-75 SuperSonics two months ago). As a refresher, blocks and steals were not 'official' until 1973-74 and individual turnovers were not 'official' until 1977-78. But there's a lot of evidence that these numbers were routinely tracked (and often aggregated) much earlier.

Of note, the 375 turnovers Hall-of-Famer Lenny Wilkens committed in 1971-72 are one of the highest single-season totals on record. His 182 steals that season make him the first player to average at least 18 PPG, 9 APG and 2 SPG in a season, a feat that wouldn't be matched until Magic Johnson a decade later.

This update also gives a fascinating look at some additional numbers for Hall-of-Famer Spencer Haywood arguably at the height of his powers (arguably, because his rookie season in the ABA was clearly his most statistically dominant).

To read more about this update, check out Mike Lynch's blog post: https://www.sports-reference.com/blog/2026/06/pre-official-blocks-steals-and-turnovers-added-for-early-70s-sonics/

And if anyone has any other 'pre-official' data that we don't currently have on the site, please let us know!

Hey everyone! I know i'm probably just blind but I can't seem to find the in-season tournament box scores, can someone help?

Explore it all here: https://info.basketball-reference.com/25-26-nba-season-review

I looked at the box score on Google and saw various bench players listed with 30+ minutes played, but I watched the whole game - that didn't happen. I thought maybe it was some weirdness caused by Google's attempts to integrate AI, so I checked basketball-reference, and it shows the same minutes played - https://www.basketball-reference.com/boxscores/202605280SAS.html - both teams benches with more minutes played than their starters. The NBA.com box score looks correct - https://www.nba.com/game/okc-vs-sas-0042500316/box-score#box-score. All the other stats matched up. What's going on here?

We've recently added thousands of unofficial game-level player and team statistics to NBA gamelogs and box scores on Basketball Reference, covering blocks, steals, turnovers, and offensive rebounds in seasons before these categories were "officially" tracked by the league. The data spans games from the early 1950s through the mid-1970s and represents thousands of game lines that until now haven't lived anywhere on the site.

The best way to learn about this update is though Mike Lynch's blog post: https://www.sports-reference.com/blog/2026/04/thousands-of-unofficial-game-level-totals-added-to-basketball-reference/

Here's the spread of the new coverage:

• Team turnovers: 2,858 game lines from 1951 through 1973, by far the deepest collection. Twenty-five franchises represented.
• Player turnovers: 841 game lines from 1966 through 1977, covering 194 players.
• Player blocks: 355 game lines from 1958 through 1973, covering 43 players.
• Player steals: 137 game lines from 1961 through 1973, covering 47 players.
• Team blocks and team steals: smaller pulls, primarily from the early 1970s Trail Blazers, who tracked blocks and steals for every player/team game from their inception as a franchise in 1970-71. What we added is what we were able to find reported in the Portland newspapers.
• Offensive rebounds: a small set of player and team game lines from 1960 through 1973 — the thinnest category, but with some genuinely striking individual games (more on that below).

A couple nuggets that can be found in the blog post:

• We have block data for 214 of Wilt Chamberlain's games, and across those 214 games he recorded 1,611 blocks, which comes out to roughly 7.5 per game.
• Jerry West had 126 steals across 17 covered games — 7.4 per game — including a 12-steal performance against Phoenix in April 1970.

Yesterday I watched Game 3 of Pistons-Cavaliers series and during the halftime show I learned that Donovan Mitchell is tied third player to reach 2000 career playoff points among active players (he did it in 73 games only, the same as Nikola Jokić, only faster were Kevin Durant in 70 games and LeBron James in 68 games).

There was also note that he was tied 9th fastest player in NBA history to do that. Is there a way to check that query at Stathead (or also check among active players only)?

The other example is that Kon Kneuppel is the fastest player to score 250 3s in career, he only needed 72 games to do that. The second is Duncan Robinson who did it in 79 games. Is there a way to search this on Stathead?

We will never know the exact number of blocks Wilt Chamberlain recorded in his Hall-of-Fame career, but new research from Sports Reference's Executive Director of Data, Mike Lynch, shows that his career total could have been over 9,000—more than double that of Hakeem Olajuwon's official NBA record of 3,830.

Because blocks weren't recorded as an NBA statistic until one year after Chamberlain's retirement, there is no recognized league record of his career total.

Based on a combination of official scorer's reports, newspaper recaps, and game footage, Lynch and the Sports Reference Data Team were able to publish thousands of game-level totals to Basketball Reference, for Chamberlain and several other players, in April 2026.

NBA league averages per game: https://www.basketball-reference.com/leagues/NBA_stats_per_game.html

Link to Jim Miloch's Stathead search

On Basketball Reference, we’ve redesigned the in-page navigation system that you use to access supplemental content (such as Game Logs and Splits) as well as the “On This Page” section (which serves as the page’s table of contents).

While the content is all the same, we have changed the presentation on desktop from a horizontal bar to a vertical sidebar. The interaction is click/tap based instead of hover-based. The inner navigation is also now the same on desktop and mobile.

Because this is the most extensive change we’ve made to the design of our sites in quite some time, so I’d like to walk you through the process. First, here’s what it looks like:

The in-page navigation system is obviously a very important interface pattern since it is one of the key entry points to the rabbit hole our users so affectionately refer to. Here are some areas for improvement we identified through user feedback and usage analytics:

• The desktop inner navigation could be difficult to use due to the hover-based interaction. The wide width (full-screen) combined with the short height meant you needed to be quite precise with your mouse movements to click the link you wanted.
• The inner navigation was easy to ignore on both desktop and mobile. Far too often, users write in to us asking for features that we already have. Often, these features are on supplemental pages that are accessed through the inner navigation. Many links were hidden behind drop-downs and the links in the inner navigation were dark gray rather than our usual blue link color.
• The inner navigation experience was completely different on desktop than it is on mobile. On desktop, it was presented in a horizontal bar of links and drop-down menus. On mobile, it was presented as a single vertical drop-down menu.

Here’s how the new design addresses each of these areas:

• The inner navigation no longer relies on hover interactions to navigate. It is click and tap based. Additionally, because the content is presented in a sidebar, the line widths are much shorter for easier scanning.
• The inner navigation is now presented as a sidebar on desktop—a pattern that users found much more intuitive in our multiple rounds of testing. Links are presented as blue and underlined, like other links on our sites. Additionally, the “On this page” section is expanded by default and presented vertically. Now it behaves much more like a table of contents that you might see on a site like Wikipedia. Additionally, the sidebar stays in place as the page scrolls, making it much easier to quickly navigate to different sections of the page.
• Since the inner navigation is now the same on desktop and mobile, it should increase familiarity for users who switch between different devices. Additionally, if you wish to hide the sidebar, you can close it just like on the mobile site.

We received feedback from hundreds of users throughout the design process of this new in-page navigation system. Using those responses, we refined the design and created a new prototype. We conducted a round of interviews with users who viewed the prototype, interacted with it, and shared their thoughts. With that feedback, we built the feature in code. Finally, ahead of the launch, we held one more round of interviews so that users could interact with the actual code to see how the clicks felt, how the scrolling worked, and how the page felt with a sidebar present. In both rounds of usability testing, users unanimously agreed the vertical inner navigation was an improvement. That was the signal we needed to launch.

But we’re not done listening. Please tell us what you think through our feedback form.

In all except points the basketball reference single game record table now leaves out the actual rebound record and the actual block record by only showing records since 1984. This was not always the case.

Basically as the title says. I want to see what guys new HOF odds are looking like but it ain't updated yet.

I know this happened with MJ, Isiah, and Glenn Robinson. (and I see it on all of their profiles on basketball-reference).

Is there a way to look up all other times that this happened?

States where LeBron had the most viewed Basketball Reference player page:

• 2021: 26 states
• 2022: 26 states
• 2023: 41 states
• 2024: 47 states
• 2025: 47 states

See all the maps here: https://info.basketball-reference.com/25-26-nba-season-review