What is this?

Now that it’s officially the All Star break, I thought I’d share a fun side project I’ve been doing: storing and analyzing every single submission and comment posted on r/NBA during this season.

It’s a good way to practice data stuff, but it’s also neat because it lets me answer questions like:

Which fan bases are most common on here? Which fans comment the most, swear the most, complain about refs the most, etc?
Which players and teams are talked about the most? Which ones are the most beloved, which are the most hated?
What users on here most desperately need to touch grass (besides me)?

So far, I have collected 1,641,342 total comments from 14,423 posts, starting from 12PM midnight on 10/21/2025 (the day of the opening game) and continuing on through midnight of last night (when my data collection setup ran last). If you’re curious, I collected the data using the Python Reddit API wrapper PRAW, I stored the data in a Postgres database, and I did most of the actual analysis with R. Also, I already did this for r/CFB, so you can check that out too if you’re also a college football fan.

I haven’t had time to sift through all of it yet, but now that I have a large chunk of data to work with and there’s no basketball to watch, I thought I’d share a “flair census” to celebrate the ASB: this is a breakdown of every user who has posted on r/NBA so far this season by their primary flair, i.e. what team they’re a fan of. This should finally give us some quantitative, empirical evidence that there are simply too many Lakers fans.

Results: Team Flairs

How many people are in each fanbase on here?

I started by cleaning the flairs up a bit to make sure I’m capturing each team’s entire fanbase:

I combined the various different versions of each team’s flairs together.
If your flair is “[CLE] Kyrie Irving”, I counted you as a Cavs fan, since you went out of your way to use the “[CLE]” tagged one.
If your flair is just “Kyrie Irving”, however, I counted you as a Mavs fan, since that’s who he currently / most recently plays for. This is one of the few parts of this process I did by hand, so there might be a few mistakes.
If your flair is anything else – a country massively I then calculated A) the total number of unique users / comments, and B) some fun summary statistics to tell us more about each fanbase.

Let’s start with the 30 actual current NBA teams, ranked by total users:

Rank	Team	Total Users	Total Comments	Comments per User	Avg Score	P Downvoted	Avg Words	Swears per 100 Words	P Ref Complaints	Top Poster
#1	Lakers	5,398	121,676	22.54	28.46	13.05%	20.44	0.73	2.07%	ThaRealSunGod (1,631 comments)
#2	Warriors	3,357	63,371	18.88	22.66	12.00%	21.87	0.59	2.62%	Akipella (3,733 comments)
#3	Celtics	3,096	45,805	14.79	22.65	11.16%	24.25	0.53	2.24%	archerarcher0 (927 comments)
#4	Knicks	2,799	55,933	19.98	26.35	11.34%	20.13	0.66	1.93%	HokageEzio (2,071 comments)
#5	Raptors	2,703	53,276	19.71	27.17	9.79%	19.90	0.67	1.96%	heat_fan_ (4,237 comments)
#6	Spurs	2,594	71,116	27.42	23.77	8.62%	20.09	0.71	2.77%	LAMonkeyWithAShotgun (1,549 comments)
#7	Thunder	2,428	96,573	39.77	14.98	16.75%	20.03	0.72	2.56%	Old_Supermarket_7575 (1,678 comments)
#8	Timberwolves	2,167	48,400	22.34	23.80	10.32%	20.37	0.65	3.45%	dys0n_giddey (2,285 comments)
#9	Nuggets	2,045	52,379	25.61	20.69	12.44%	21.06	0.58	2.82%	KasherH (1,517 comments)
#10	Bulls	1,951	23,292	11.94	26.96	10.30%	22.72	0.61	2.05%	Constant_Charge_4528 (1,042 comments)
#11	76ers	1,883	23,214	12.33	26.75	10.51%	21.68	0.64	2.08%	Krillin113 (649 comments)
#12	Mavericks	1,866	29,551	15.84	28.20	10.75%	22.55	0.71	2.08%	StefonDiggsHS (823 comments)
#13	Cavaliers	1,534	18,855	12.29	22.62	10.84%	21.25	0.63	2.59%	OverallGeneral7129 (882 comments)
#14	Heat	1,506	26,422	17.54	28.24	9.82%	22.92	0.59	1.96%	cl353 (1,297 comments)
#15	Trail Blazers	1,497	22,345	14.93	21.87	11.60%	22.69	0.61	2.83%	SeismicRipFart (1,341 comments)
#16	Rockets	1,491	29,080	19.50	21.82	12.48%	20.62	0.70	2.66%	sorendiz (1,475 comments)
#17	Pistons	1,485	25,821	17.39	24.36	10.15%	21.54	0.63	2.72%	dizzymidget44 (1,356 comments)
#18	Bucks	1,396	23,217	16.63	24.51	11.58%	23.86	0.62	2.52%	First_Inspection_478 (906 comments)
#19	Suns	1,338	24,334	18.19	23.43	10.76%	20.13	0.72	3.13%	ajteitel (1,228 comments)
#20	Pacers	1,146	16,724	14.59	19.56	13.77%	22.89	0.66	2.28%	Funny-Transition7869 (919 comments)
#21	Kings	1,015	14,294	14.08	27.81	9.83%	23.72	0.66	1.99%	MostlyMellow123 (491 comments)
#22	Hawks	925	15,513	16.77	31.66	8.88%	22.89	0.63	1.94%	amidon1130 (809 comments)
#23	Wizards	754	10,711	14.21	25.53	8.20%	22.22	0.65	1.69%	Kennyc1234 (892 comments)
#24	Magic	749	15,197	20.29	24.54	9.73%	19.23	0.64	1.99%	bubbasnub (573 comments)
#25	Clippers	725	14,052	19.38	26.04	12.23%	22.72	0.62	1.56%	KL2ConspireLLC (1,908 comments)
#26	Grizzlies	709	14,009	19.76	24.59	12.31%	24.81	0.50	1.94%	rwoteit (851 comments)
#27	Hornets	674	14,422	21.40	21.46	14.68%	20.19	0.71	1.85%	Vegetable-Tooth8463 (1,928 comments)
#28	Nets	636	10,408	16.36	32.67	9.89%	24.45	0.53	1.81%	rabidantidentyte (360 comments)
#29	Pelicans	533	8,521	15.99	37.04	11.11%	19.88	0.56	1.74%	legend023 (607 comments)
#30	Jazz	507	6,693	13.20	29.25	8.25%	23.37	0.55	2.72%	FERFreak731 (529 comments)

Chart versions:

Observations:

There are, in fact, a lot of Lakers fans! Over 5,000 of them in fact, which is over 2,000 more than any other fanbase. I would be really curious to be able to compare this to previous years, to see if there was a big spike when LeBron / Luka arrived, but it was not a surprise at all to see them at the top of the list.
I am also not shocked to see the Warriors, Celtics, and Knicks near the top. The Raptors are the first real surprise here to me – I guess they just get a bump from being the default team of Canadians? I also think it’s funny that their #1 poster is named “heat fan”.
The Spurs / Thunder rivalry continues even here, with the Spurs taking the edge in fanbase size but the Thunder winning in comments per user. The Spurs’ engagement numbers are actually the second highest at 27.42 comments per user, but OKC is #1 by a huge margin – they’re posting at rates more than double those of some other teams, enough to actually put them at #2 when it comes to total comments in the dataset.
Looking at the bottom of the list we see the pits of despair, i.e. the teams with nothing fun to talk about these days. Shoutout to the Kings fans for still showing up this season, and condolences to the Jazz fans for… yeah.

We can also see the average comment score, % of comments downvoted, number of words per comment, swear rate, and ref complaint rate of each fanbase. This should give us some insight into how good each fanbase is at posting (or at least how r/NBA feels about them).

Thunder fans’ comments have the lowest avg. scores by a pretty big margin, while Pelicans fans have the highest. There definitely seems to be a “fewer comments total = higher average score” effect happening, judging by the bottom of the list. But the Thunder are also the clear #1 in downvote rate (i.e. comments with scores < 1), so I think we can safely say OKC is the most frowned upon fanbase this season. I, for one, am shocked!
Memphis fans write the longest comments and swear the least – nerd alert??
Lakers fans, Thunder fans, and Suns fans claim the top 3 spots in swear rate, with 0.7%ish of the words in their comments being some form of profanity. Great work!
I also searched for comments complaining about the refs – this is a very basic regex search, so if you wrote “I love the refs, they’re doing a great job and that was a valid whistle” it would still get flagged, but it works pretty well. Judging by this metric, the Clippers, Wizards, and Pels do the least complaining about the refs (what have they really had to complain about tbf), while the Timberwolves (Chris Finch just reported this post to the mods for pointing it out), Suns, and Blazers do the most.
Soon, I am hoping to be able to break this down by game thread too, like “what specific games or what team’s games feature the most complaining about the refs?”

You can also see the user from each fanbase who has made the most comments thus far. Y’all should either feel very proud of yourselves, or maybe take this as a sign to go caress some grass, your choice. If you feel bad about the number of reddit comments you made, just remember that at least you’re not me, a guy who has a database full of other peoples’ reddit comments. It could be worse.

What about the other flairs?

I also ran these same numbers for the flairs that aren’t a real NBA team – mostly countries like “Slovenia”, or defunct teams like “Supersonics” or “Bullets”. Here is the top 10 of that list:

Rank	Team	Total Users	Total Comments	Comments per User	Avg Score	P Downvoted	Avg Words	Swears per 100 Words	P Ref Complaints	Top Poster
#1	Unflaired	80,074	571,812	7.14	17.33	15.58%	23.53	0.53	2.48%	AutoModerator (4,628 comments)
#2	NBA	1,005	22,592	22.48	24.86	11.57%	26.67	0.45	2.11%	Lmao1903 (1,130 comments)
#3	Supersonics	851	13,670	16.06	24.57	10.97%	23.75	0.65	2.26%	cancercureall (686 comments)
#4	Slovenia	189	4,379	23.17	24.38	11.44%	23.74	0.57	1.99%	Cassandrae_Gemini (279 comments)
#5	West	141	3,582	25.40	15.62	11.86%	19.77	0.90	1.81%	facundo-campazzo (1,061 comments)
#6	Bullets	131	2,014	15.37	34.58	8.99%	21.03	0.59	1.69%	MainAd2728 (358 comments)
#7	Huskies	127	2,331	18.35	40.11	8.58%	20.62	0.66	1.80%	DavidSugarbush (237 comments)
#8	United States	114	3,523	30.90	29.88	18.45%	17.90	0.68	1.82%	Jarxzz (467 comments)
#9	East	83	991	11.94	24.87	13.72%	19.26	0.62	1.01%	matthitsthetrails (175 comments)
#10	Canada	81	5,200	64.20	17.84	5.88%	18.12	1.16	4.06%	CrippledBanana (2,976 comments)

Unflaired users have made over half a million comments so far, damn! There’s a lot of these guys.
- You can also use their numbers as a kind of low baseline – for example, unflaired users were downvoted under a score of 1 around 15% of the time, which is worse than almost every actual NBA team flair. The only exception is Thunder fans: their number was 16.7%.
There are actually more “Supersonics” and “NBA” flairs than there are Wizards, Magic, Clippers, Grizzlies, Hornets, Nets, Pelicans, or Jazz flairs. I found this very surprising, but I guess both are used to mean “I like the NBA but I don’t care about any particular team”? Or maybe there really are just that many embittered Seattle NBA fans on here. Adam Silver if you’re seeing this, it’s even more evidence to support bringing them back. The data doesn’t lie!
Slovenia is the most common country flair by a pretty big margin, for obvious reasons. The rarest country flairs are Turkey and the Czech Republic, which each have just two users.

I hope you enjoyed, thanks for reading! I am working on a few more little writeups of this data, which I will hopefully also have time to post during the ASB or the offseason. If you have any suggestions / requests, I’d love to hear them!

Preview for the next installment:

I am crunching the numbers on [Highlight] posts to figure out what specific players get the most attention on here, and which are the most beloved / controversial (by finding the average upvote ratios, scores, etc).

Can you guess which two players from the Western conference are massively controversial outliers, with lots of highlights posted but very low scores / upvote ratios? Tune in next time to find out who they are!

KL2ConspireLLC | San Diego Clippers

521 | 5 hours ago

KL2ConspireLLC (1,908 comments)

Lol holy sh*t, that’s too many. I’m going to stay off reddit for the rest of the month. Thanks OP.

WalrusInMySheets | LAL

93 | 5 hours ago

How are u seeing this part

crimxona | Canada

62 | 4 hours ago

It’s a table, scroll right

DirtySmiter | Lakers

3 | 43 minutes ago

Damn can’t get it to scroll on old reddit on mobile.

B0ltzmannn | Lakers

1 | 20 minutes ago

Typical Lakers fan swearing in their post.

tinybathroomfaucet | Supersonics

20 | 4 hours ago

The tables are horizontally scrollable. Took me a while to figure out on mobile too

TheOneWhosCensored | Celtics

5 | 4 hours ago

It’s in the chart, scroll to the right. If you’re on mobile it doesn’t show at first.

knitwoolf | Raptors

2 | 4 hours ago

Last column in the team ranking table is the top poster for each fanbase and how many comments they have. It’s not available for everyone just the most active user being called out lol

Liverpoolclippers | Clippers

17 | 3 hours ago

Love you my goat keep fighting the good fight

amidon1130 | Hawks

13 | 3 hours ago

Oh fuck I’m on the list too, my adhd is killing me lol. Taking a break for sure.

GreenEggs-12 | Spurs

9 | 5 hours ago

It’s time for an intervention !

AllTheGoodNamesDied

6 | 3 hours ago

Alright see you in an hour

DirtySperrys | Slovenia

7 | 2 hours ago

Not even a top 1% commenter too is wild.

AshenSacrifice | Clippers

10 | 2 hours ago

Top 1% is about upvotes lmao

DirtySperrys | Slovenia

3 | an hour ago

Ooooh I just thought it was people spamming comments left and right

ObeseKenyan | DEN

7 | an hour ago

People actually using reddit to interact won’t be top 1%. The people posting in new threads are the ones that get 2k+ votes once that post has blown up to 10k up votes.

Reddit doesn’t give you up votes for quality comments, it rewards timely / early comments

phillturdwater

6 | 4 hours ago

Legend can you leave after the all star game lol

azzadruiz | Nuggets

2 | 2 hours ago

Nah bro you putting on for the few clippers fans

Miser2100

3 | an hour ago

Breaking news: Guy who posted 1908 comments in half a season can quit anytime he likes.

moby323 | 76ers

328 | 5 hours ago

This is awesome keep doing this

CaptainScuttlebottom | Thunder

82 | 4 hours ago

I’m really glad you enjoyed it!

According-Dig-4667 | Thunder

5 | an hour ago

Surprised you didn’t get downvoted to hell just for the fun of it

NintyFanBoy | Knicks

10 | an hour ago

We can always start now….😂

CoulibalyMVP | Wizards

244 | 5 hours ago

there’s also the obvious unflaired lakers fans like ciark who post here 500 times a day

TitanTigers | Grizzlies

160 | 5 hours ago

The number 1 grizzlies fan is just a Thunder fan in disguise. That’s actually hilarious.

/u/rwoteit

Edit: he has me blocked lol

Zeeron1 | Thunder

49 | 4 hours ago

I feel like I’m missing lore, and his profile is private. Why is a Thunder fan disguising himself as a Grizzlies fan lol

TitanTigers | Grizzlies

133 | 4 hours ago

So he can glaze the thunder while acting as a “neutral”. Pretends to be a grizzlies fan despite exclusively commenting on Thunder posts and stanning SGA

BlunderDefect | Spurs

94 | 4 hours ago

Makes sense, such a thunder fan thing to do.

Greasly_Goose | MIA

71 | 3 hours ago

Such a spurs fan thing to observe /j

wcooper97 | OKC

23 | 3 hours ago

Very classy, very smart.

ThatDudeNamedMenace | Knicks

4 | an hour ago

Ethical and cultured even

Zeeron1 | Thunder

31 | 3 hours ago

Going to every thread you can find a Thunder flair in to troll about us is definitely a Spurs fan thing to do

BlunderDefect | Spurs

25 | 3 hours ago

What can I say. I see thunder flair in post, my Reddit instincts just kick in. Lol

Zeeron1 | Thunder

14 | 3 hours ago

Hey, I’m not arguing it. Its reddit, if you ain’t bullshitting, you ain’t trying😂

RemyGee | Lakers

25 | 3 hours ago

I wonder if he starts off comments with “I’m not even a Thunder fan but” then defends or compliments the Thunder 😂

wcooper97 | OKC

7 | 3 hours ago

What else would you expect from the most chronically online fanbase according to this data lmfao.

ObeseKenyan | DEN

5 | an hour ago

I don’t even remember who he is but I’ve got him blocked lmao. I reckon I’ve blocked maybe 2 people in the last 2 years so what you’re saying makes sense. I think he just kept starting arguments about Jokic / SGA (shocker)

Zeeron1 | Thunder

4 | 3 hours ago

It’s shocking how much time people have lol I’ve seen people doing that. We’ve also had people put on Thunder flairs to troll the other way

NanielEM | Mavericks

16 | 3 hours ago

For future reference, when a profile is private, use the search bar to “search” comments/post and just put a single space then enter. If they ever hit the spacebar while typing a comment or post it will still show up despite being private. Basically unless it’s a one word post/comment ortheytypelikethisuisingnospaces

Zeeron1 | Thunder

4 | 3 hours ago

Wait, that’s kind of crazy lol. Doesn’t that defeat the whole purpose? I have a private profile, not like I’m hiding anything, I just private all my socials

SlightlyAmbiguous1 | 76ers

2 | an hour ago

Pretty sure he’s just a LeBron stan

GiantGreenCrayon | Raptors

136 | 5 hours ago

So Canadians swear more and are downvoted less. The Raptors/leagues most comments is a heat fan.

Joetheshow1 | Knicks

53 | 4 hours ago

Genuinely surprised it’s only 4k comments for heat fan

That dude lives on this fucking sub

MountainTwo3845 | Rockets

20 | 5 hours ago

Canadians also invented half of the war crimes out there too. People should be terrified of y’all. But you’re also nice AF. Conundrum.

PrayForMojo_ | Raptors

8 | 5 hours ago

Fuckin eh.

10LASERS19 | Lakers

6 | 3 hours ago

There’s one user that has made almost 60% of total Canada flair comments though.

cjparloe | Timberwolves

131 | 5 hours ago

Thunder fans’ comments have the lowest avg. scores by a pretty big margin, while Pelicans fans have the highest.

https://imgur.com/a/OhOsF5D lol

Quality_Cucumber | GSW

35 | 4 hours ago

Here they come!

TheAerial | Magic

30 | 5 hours ago

Hang it in the Louvre 😂

GreenEggs-12 | Spurs

31 | 5 hours ago

Surprising…noone.

I would think the same would be true of warriors post 2015.

TitanTigers | Grizzlies

58 | 4 hours ago

https://www.reddit.com/r/nbacirclejerk/s/ef6OQ2bZBo

Warriors Reddit army in their prime was unbeatable. Thunder bandwagon is nothing in comparison. I was getting instant -100 in the 2022 playoffs. We still have warriors fans popping up on our sub to this day.

Lacabloodclot9 | Grizzlies

45 | 4 hours ago

I had grown men DMing saying ‘don’t ever disrespect Steph again’

It was actually wild

HokageEzio | Knicks

10 | 3 hours ago

Better not play with 30’s name on these streets if you know what’s good for you 😤

TheoMoneyG | Knicks

3 | 3 hours ago

that’s some weirdo energy ngl

Airknight_Parshath | Kings

9 | 2 hours ago

Before 2015, I knew only one Warriors fan from Sac (he was a big Monta fan), but then from Summer 2015 to like 2019, they were everywhere here. And then in 2020, half of them switched to LA before switching back to the Warriors. LOL

And when we played them in the first round during the beam year, so many of their fans were brigading our sub about how dirty of a player Sabonis is. lol…

I respect the diehard GSW fans from before the Steph era, but man, the fairweather fans are something else LOL

Skank_hunt42 | Thunder

19 | 4 hours ago

I mean this is pretty fucking funny lol

Neatojuancheeto | Warriors

3 | 4 hours ago

LMAO

handgredave | Hornets

2 | an hour ago

In the thread from earlier today there was a comment to the tune of “Well thunder fans have only been around since last season” and probably a dozen replies from OKC flairs lol

moby323 | 76ers

72 | 5 hours ago

“Why does the media always talk about the Lakers!?”

“Oh. Right. That’s why.”

Odoaiden | Timberwolves

71 | 5 hours ago

Not shocked that U/Dyson_Giddey has complained about refs over 2000 times

KushGod28 | Timberwolves

3 | 2 hours ago

Lol we complain about refs the most. Not surprised. Y’all think we need a foul baiter on our team to balance our roster? Ethical basketball is beautiful but frustrating to watch when your team keeps getting screwed.

bullseye717 | Pelicans

67 | 4 hours ago

Reddit loves it when fans shits on their own team and there’s a lot of material we’re working with.

Its_Hoggish_Greedly | Kings

35 | 4 hours ago

Same bro. You think you can hate the Kings more than Kings fans? Fuckin bring it lol. We have arcane complaints about shit you’ve never even conceived of.

superben53

1 | 26 minutes ago

Im a Pistons fan but I always feel for you guys (bc longtime Lions fan LMAO) and I literally had to look up just now how yalls record this year has gotten this astronomically bad given what I remembered as the perceived talent going into the year

JakGrealish | Nuggets

59 | 5 hours ago

The Spurs are the keanu reaves/fedora hat of the nba reddit community

pr0ject_84 | Thunder

9 | 5 hours ago

Very accurate

NoPhone2544

7 | an hour ago

Please explain

NotWD | Raptors

59 | 5 hours ago

Our team sub is pretty huge, and a lot of Canadians are very online, so us being at #5 is less of a surprise than you’d think tbh

Adorable-News-9364 | Spurs

58 | 5 hours ago

Y’all are getting carried by a bot though smh

NotWD | Raptors

53 | 5 hours ago

Tell me about it. Fuckin chatgpt ass loser

OverallGeneral7129 | Cavaliers

42 | 5 hours ago

Heat Fan posts the most nothing comments of all time under every single post. Like he’ll comment on every game and stat thread and he very clearly watched none of them

Lacabloodclot9 | Grizzlies

18 | 4 hours ago

I’d write a decently long stat post and then I get a notif instantly and it’s him ‘x player has been cooking!’

norriscolesucks

3 | an hour ago

he also never replies to anybody. just posts a sentence or two under the main post then dips.

MusclyArmPaperboy | Raptors

18 | 5 hours ago

Toronto is also the 4th most populated city in North America (Mexico City, NYC, LA ahead of us) which is funny because we’re never considered a “large market team”.

Imaginary-Round2422 | Timberwolves

4 | 2 hours ago

By city limits, maybe. But Chicago, the Bay Area, Houston, and Dallas all are larger metropolitan areas.

Nugget1765 | Raptors

2 | 2 hours ago

I don’t think that’s correct.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_North_American_metropolitan_areas_by_population

jaydogggg | Canada

8 | 4 hours ago

We got snowed in this year we didn’t have much of a choice then to hop on Reddit

Successful-Pie6759

2 | 5 hours ago

Raptors def kicking above their weight. Or is it Canada raptors and a lot of Canadians default to it?

Broski28of25 | France

10 | 5 hours ago

Like the other comment said. It’s a bot that posts the most generic comment based on the headlines on every post.

LordOfLimbos | Pistons

48 | 5 hours ago

Goddamn thunder fans talk a shitload lol, that’s really interesting

Boomhauer_007 | Raptors

18 | 3 hours ago

I would bet this is generally true for whoever the current defending champ is tbf

LordOfLimbos | Pistons

9 | 3 hours ago

I’d definitely expect them to be the top by a little, but there’s not another team even remotely close to making the same number of comments per user, mostly just shocked that the difference is that massive

NotMarkDaigneault | Thunder

19 | 4 hours ago

In between games and Onion Burgers I don’t have a lot else to do 🤣

CaptainScuttlebottom | Thunder

22 | 4 hours ago

the only reason I even started writing this post was bc I ran out of onion burgers

NotMarkDaigneault | Thunder

8 | 4 hours ago

I fucking love Onion Burgers 🤣

SurvivorPostingAcc | Thunder

2 | 3 hours ago

There’s a lot more conversation to be had about us than any other team to be fair.

SomeKilljoy | Suns

44 | 5 hours ago

The prevailing message I’ve gained from this analysis is “flair up, coward”

McJuggernaugh7

4 | 2 hours ago

Personally I dont have a favorite team. My home team got stolen from my city (Vancouver). Then I supported the next closest team (sonics) which also got stolen from Seattle. So now I just support whatever team has my favorite player to watch which has been steph for the past decade. But once Curry retires, I’ll just move on to another team. Nba is much more fun following it that way. You always have something to cheer for even in the tank year Steph was playing on godlike mode.

On the otherhand, when my entire hockey watching life has been filled with pure misery and heartbreak…

ExistingGain8688

1 | 3 hours ago

But I’m from outside the US and just appreciate good ball :(.

SomeKilljoy | Suns

10 | 3 hours ago

I’m kind of surprised there isn’t a Europe flair

Bulbasuar8869 | Warriors

4 | an hour ago

europe is a country that deserves to have a flair here

drewm916 | Kings

3 | an hour ago

It feels like most of the time when someone says something that irritates me, it’s someone without a flair. That is even more irritating. “I won’t admit who my team is, but I’ll talk shit about yours.”

Vicentesteb | Timberwolves

33 | 5 hours ago

Why do the Pacers and Hornets get downvoted so much lol.

Lacabloodclot9 | Grizzlies

33 | 4 hours ago

Pacers have a lot of rivalries with bigger fanbases so that’s probably why

DjToastyTy | Pacers

8 | 3 hours ago

pacers fans are more likely to have a bad attitude and attract downvotes after the past few months lol. people were literally calling us pieces of shit in here for booing myles turner.

hornets fans aren’t even that bad, but they have to struggle through that vegetable-tooth account with 2000 comments, mostly downvoted. and teenage lamelo fans.

KushGod28 | Timberwolves

9 | 2 hours ago

I think Miles Bridges is responsible for a lot of the negativity towards the hornets tbh. Their team is pretty loveable outside of him

DjToastyTy | Pacers

2 | 2 hours ago

i really think it’s more to do with the fact that they only have 14000 comments and 2k of them are from that one account that gets constantly downvoted. literally one really annoying account is responsible for ¹⁄₇ of all hornets fan comments.

sorendiz | HOU

7 | an hour ago

there’s a lot of knicks fans on here

OverallGeneral7129 | Cavaliers

26 | 5 hours ago

Guess I’m the number 1 Cavs fan. Cool

happyflappypancakes | Wizards

16 | 3 hours ago

No it just means you are the fan that goes online the most. Take that how you will.

jaman715 | Cavaliers

8 | 3 hours ago

Not if I come for the crown

MountainTwo3845 | Rockets

27 | 5 hours ago

I’m interested to see next year how the flair changes if LeBron leaves. Great work.

TZY247 | Trail Blazers

9 | an hour ago

There was also a trend of mavs fans changing their flair to Lakers after the Luka trade

BedDazzling7545

18 | 5 hours ago

So if your a thunder you have the highest chance to get downvoted. I wonder why is that… 😂

Neatojuancheeto | Warriors

4 | 4 hours ago

Defending dirty players like Dort and clearly biased ref calls tend to get you heavily downvoted. You see it with Warriors fans who try to defend Draymond when he does some dirty shit lol.

Never understood that outlook. You can like a team, accept he is an important part of your winning, and still agree they’re a dirty POS. I’ve never felt the need to defend Draymond, dudes a world class asshole.

mangabalanga | Thunder

7 | 3 hours ago

The constant comparisons to Draymond are a huge part of it. Dray has been suspended and ejected more games than Dort has missed due to injury. Dray has choked people on live TV, punched his own teammates, and complains up and down the court nearly every play. Say whatever you want about Dort but he’s just not in Greens ballpark when it comes to that kind of shit.

SurvivorPostingAcc | Thunder

6 | 3 hours ago

I can’t wait to see which team gets Dort this summer and completely flips their attitude towards him. People defend him because he’s been around the longest but a lot of fans are pretty low on him right now because he hasn’t been playing well all season.

Adorable-News-9364 | Spurs

15 | 5 hours ago

Probably 400 of u/MostlyMellow123 ‘s comments are in Spurs game threads hating on De’Aaron Fox

GreenEggs-12 | Spurs

2 | 4 hours ago

justifiably!

RapsareChamps_Suckit | Clippers

12 | 5 hours ago

how much more betrayal can I take?!

kvnr10 | Bucks

3 | an hour ago

I’ve been good to you and you pay me with non-stop ass rape?!

roar_rawr42 | Knicks

13 | 5 hours ago

Send this to Adam silver as support for bringing back the sonics

rayquan36 | Wizards

14 | 5 hours ago

Bullets should be counted with the wizards

Mukbeth | PHI

15 | 4 hours ago

Not the Jazz tanking in r/nba as well 🥀🥀🥀💀

No-Owl-6246 | Lakers

6 | an hour ago

Why is nobody talking about the Jazz fans blatant tanking in r/nba?

tompengu | Thunder

2 | 2 hours ago

They’ve just been fined another $500,000

JNerdGaming | Knicks

13 | 4 hours ago

fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck

just trying to beat the thunder early

Ramikadyc | Thunder

3 | an hour ago

This is the adult subreddit, we can say whatever the hell we want!

Broakley | Thunder

1 | 26 minutes ago

So in these Thunder games, do any of these fuckers ever come out of the wall and have like a huge cumshot?

obxtalldude | Washington Bullets

11 | 5 hours ago

Interesting downvote stat.

I guess since the Wizards / Bullets fans have suffered for so long, we are the least cocky?

PassMeTheBackwood | Knicks

12 | 5 hours ago

Oh thank god Hokage is more terminally online than me

NazReidRules | Timberwolves

14 | 4 hours ago

REF BULLSHIT GAME IS FIXED

gradual_alzheimers | Timberwolves

7 | 4 hours ago

NAZ

Take_My_User_Name | Knicks

10 | 4 hours ago

4th place in curses per post? Not fucking bad

zebrainatux | Knicks

3 | 4 hours ago

I thought it would’ve been higher given New York and how much I curse

XthaNext | MIN

10 | 3 hours ago

Proof that Celtics fans are frauds: they swear less than Jazz fans

JoJonesy | Celtics

2 | 3 hours ago

hey fuck you too buddy

Odoaiden | Timberwolves

10 | 5 hours ago

Old supermarket has to be responsible for half the downvotes on thunder fans

80cent | NBA

2 | 4 hours ago

I’m doing my part

Pop_Zestyclose | Spurs

10 | 5 hours ago

Hell yeah! We are representing!

LTIRfortheWIN | Spurs

2 | an hour ago

Yes sir

chief1555 | Knicks

9 | 5 hours ago

Cannot think of a better encapsulation of the NYC/New England sports rivalry than the Knicks having 97 fewer fans than Boston but those fans making almost 10,000 more comments than the Boston fans

You can’t shut us up

Rudy_Gobert | Jazz

10 | 5 hours ago

Yes, this means that we get the first pick in the draft since we are dead last, right? right?

Joetheshow1 | Knicks

9 | 4 hours ago

The obvious bandwagon Nets fans being gone is hilarious

Sample_text_here1337 | Raptors

8 | 4 hours ago

Finally, I have concrete evidence that Minnesota fans are whinny as fuck.

nonononono11111

2 | 3 hours ago

You sound a little horse

wcooper97 | OKC

8 | 3 hours ago

39.7 comments per user hot damn we are chronically online!

sorendiz | HOU

8 | an hour ago

sorendiz (1,475 comments)

oh shit that’s me

i like all the other folks who also have ADHD seeing their names there and being like ‘aw fuck i didn’t realize it was that much, i gotta cut down’ and i respect them for it. unfortunately i will not be changing, i will not be improving, and that is a promise. boring as shit when there isn’t ball happening smh

k1ngkoala | Lakers

4 | 5 hours ago

Pretty interesting breakdown. More people should use the flairs so we can get a better results. Also not surprised OKC fans are the most hated this season. Is that typical for the team coming off the championship? Or is this year’s OKC just uniquely aggravating.

I’m gonna take a swing and guess Deni Advija is one of those controversial outliers you mentioned in your Next installment section.

captain_ahabb | Lakers

20 | 5 hours ago

Fanbases that just won a title are always annoying.

JoJonesy | Celtics

3 | 3 hours ago

given who the guy that posts pretty much all of the highlights on this sub is? seems likely

Greenman_0 | Suns

7 | 4 hours ago

Fuck da refs

TimberwolvesDelusion

7 | 4 hours ago

WOLVES AT 8 BABY AWWOOOOOOOOOOO

SoldatJ | OKC

3 | 3 hours ago

Wolves ate a baby?

angelansbury

7 | 5 hours ago

This rules. Really feels like the Bullets should be included as Wizards fans though

Mdgt_Pope

5 | 4 hours ago

unflaired users were downvoted under a score of 1 around 15% of the time, which is worse than almost every actual NBA team flair.

The Hardest Road

Zeeron1 | Thunder

5 | 4 hours ago

Regarding the Thunder flairs being most downvoted - I’ve definitely noticed more and more, people just downvote when they see a Thunder flair lol. I’ve had so many completely normal comments in threads just talking about basketball be randomly downvoted, I assume just cause the flair. It doesn’t even matter what I say

Enough-Seesaw2514 | Raptors

4 | 4 hours ago

Basically racism at this point

EightBlocked | NBA

5 | 3 hours ago

worse than racism imo

nonononono11111

4 | 3 hours ago

First time winning?

Zeeron1 | Thunder

6 | 3 hours ago

Yes

nonononono11111

2 | 3 hours ago

No one deserves to win and the losers will attempt to undermine anything your team has ever accomplished. Enjoy!

BlunderDefect | Spurs

4 | 3 hours ago

I think it’s actually kind of funny. You guys get down voted and then start editing your comments basically asking, “WHAT AM I DOING WRONG?!” lol. People just like making you guys squirm.

Zeeron1 | Thunder

5 | 3 hours ago

I’ve never edited a comment because of downvotes, and I’ve never personally seen someone with an edit saying that. I don’t actually care about downvotes lol, I think every fanbases can agree r/NBA is braindead. It’s just a funny trend I’ve noticed, and now this post confirms

jaman715 | Cavaliers

7 | 3 hours ago

Ah yes, top Raptors poster u/heatfan

Deep_Comparison_930 | Lakers

5 | 3 hours ago

I wonder what it was that made him convert

wowlock_taylan | Spurs

4 | 5 hours ago

Man, Lakers talk A LOT huh?

GreenEggs-12 | Spurs

3 | 4 hours ago

to be fair, I think in a vacuum, LeBron and Luka fans talk a lot, hence, …

ReyesRun7 | Knicks

2 | 5 hours ago

The audacity of blazers fans to complain about the refs

lanman33

5 | 4 hours ago

Suns fans use the most profanity and complain the most about refs? My gut instincts were correct

discussatron | Supersonics

4 | an hour ago

Supersonics, oh yeah!

bigvahe33 | Supersonics

3 | 5 hours ago

just leaving out the sonics huh

mnimatt | Pelicans

2 | 37 minutes ago

They’re literally in the post

dog-momx2 | Celtics

3 | 4 hours ago

This is great! Thank you!

LetsGoLesko8 | Raptors

3 | 3 hours ago

To think that our top commenter is named “heatfan” is insane to me

_NautyByNature | Celtics

3 | 2 hours ago

You could have won the entire offseason with a post like this.

watevauwant | Hornets

3 | an hour ago

Can you research whether Thunder fans have always been this annoying or if it’s just been since they won a chip?

Iwentoofar

3 | an hour ago

something is wrong with dude who has the MOST posts by far for the raptors, yet his name is heat_fan_…he must be the troll of all trolls

Mindless_Bad_1591 | Timberwolves

3 | an hour ago

obligatory fuck the refs

11229988B | Bulls

2 | an hour ago

Cuz fuck em that’s why

fowlflamingo | Nuggets

3 | an hour ago

Lol wait why are Pacers and Hornets fans the most downvoted outside of the Lakers and Thunder?

Aside from that, this is awesome and I very much look forward to your future posts delving into this. This is peak content right here, ¹⁰⁄₁₀ no notes.

DjToastyTy | Pacers

1 | 25 minutes ago

prolly cuz we talk a ton of shit to the knicks fans and they have a much bigger fanbase to downvote us

and then this sub had a crazy knee jerk reaction to the myles turner stuff and decided we were “pieces of shit” for booing him. i think they started to come around to us on the myles turner stuff tho lol

fisheggsoup | Jazz

1 | 18 minutes ago

Well, that and your “rivalry” with the Bucks.

my_twin_towne

1 | 5 hours ago

So r/Lakers with 1.6M joined but only 5k contribute/talk/post? That right?

jaybean562 | Lakers

11 | 5 hours ago

These numbers are pulled from r/nba. Not from team subreddits.

my_twin_towne

2 | 5 hours ago

Oh right. Duh. Got it!

WalrusInMySheets | LAL

6 | 5 hours ago

I can’t speak for other Lakers fans but I have that shithole muted

doordaesh | Super 8

1 | 5 hours ago

>There are, in fact, a lot of Lakers fans!

and yet there are no true lakers fans

SwampFlowers | Bulls

2 | 4 hours ago

Shit, Bulls fans need to get that profanity count up. Fuck.

Optimal_Brain_2908 | Bulls

2 | 4 hours ago

Bulls fan are the most engaged of any shitty team!

PrimeTimeMKTO | Timberwolves

2 | 4 hours ago

Fuck the refs! I stand with Finch!

kvothe-arcane | NBA

2 | 4 hours ago

Great content 👍

Lazarus704 | Knicks

2 | 4 hours ago

This is funny, nice post! Now it makes sense why there is such a influx of certain team highlights lol

Hot_Idea1066 | Supersonics

2 | 4 hours ago

Bring back the sonics! They have more fans than all those teams because they’re still better even while dead!

JasonWaterfaII | Pistons

2 | 3 hours ago

Percent ref complaints is a hilarious stat to include here. Also has surprising results.

amidon1130 | Hawks

2 | 3 hours ago

Shout outs to my fellow 3 digit homies

Jdballer22 | Raptors

2 | 3 hours ago

Flair up bozos! 😂

GyantSpyder | Knicks

2 | 3 hours ago

Proud that our leader is Hokage, apparently. The Village Hidden in the City.

LardHop | Lakers

2 | 2 hours ago

Unflaired users have the biggest percentage of downvoted comments, except ~~Satoru Gojo~~ Thunder fans of course.

Slashers23 | Mavericks

2 | 2 hours ago

Hell of a side project, love it

bomonty18 | Mavericks

2 | an hour ago

Mavs near the top with swear words per 100 words. Makes sense.

11229988B | Bulls

2 | an hour ago

Gotta be a lot of fuck nico I’m guessing

bomonty18 | Mavericks

3 | an hour ago

That man is a domestic terroist. Fuck him

aceofspaece

2 | an hour ago

Honestly the Nets should be ashamed of these rankings

JarrettAllensAfro

2 | an hour ago

I love these analytics. One thing though, you said you were going to look into the game threads too. I can not speak for all fan bases, but ours prefers to hang out in our sub reddits game thread rather than r/nba game threads. Unless its a really big nationally televised game the main sub thread will be void of real cavs fans.

Temporary-Emu-691 | Bucks

2 | an hour ago

This makes me want flairs to be mandatory to comment (I say without a flair)

Capt_Insane-o | Hornets

2 | an hour ago

There are dozens of us!!

SenoraCuatroOjos | Spurs

2 | an hour ago

Really interesting read OP, nice work 👍👍

bchhun | Warriors

2 | an hour ago

Why does u/heatfan have by far the most comments and is not, in fact, a heat fan? I am consumed by this paradox.

Malemansam | Spurs

2 | 42 minutes ago

TLDR. There is just too many people subbed here that don’t interact at all and it doesn’t make sense since the number of total subscribed users exploded in size within the last 5 years or so. Where are they?

See here for a random night near the end of March in 2018. 1mil subscribers and over 20k people online. Wth happened to all of the them yet the subscriber counts went up 10x at minimum?

Original comment below

Also something I’ve noticed over the past year is how small the interaction is compared to the number of accounts subbed to r/NBA. The user counter disappeared after the only mod who knew how to code the UI left but I remember it being close to 13 million unique subscribers at the time (~2024) if not higher.

At this point I assume its 15 million. For our most popular team only to have a bit over 5k is an insanely low amount of interaction, that’s like 0.3% of the total user base.

It’s not just the commenters, it’s the “whose online” numbers too. During big matchups there would over 23,000 users online but now (last time the counter was working) I noticed for an entire season we would be hard to push past 6k online users.

Heck the unflaired are only 0.5%.

I’ve been here with multiple lost accounts since it was about 5k users total.

Somewhere around the million users mark; the content and but more importantly the interaction stagnated greatly. Somewhere around 2018ish? I’d have to check wayback machine to get the counts right.

Game threads for most teams will have in incredibly small amount of interaction in them; heck some threads don’t get any if its a slow night with small market teams.

But even our biggest matchups barely generate more traffic than what was had a decade ago, I generally think there is less traffic now than in the past.

It could be bots pumping the numbers, reddit has always had a massive problem with them. It could be the mass exodus to the team specifc subreddits but I don’t think the numbers matchup at all, they’re still small user bases.

If I had more time (and know how) I’d look through these cached pages myself and try to see where it began to fall off but they take a long time to load and I got kids lol.

edit: I checked a few more cached pages around 2018 and yeah the online numbers hold consistent over a month, 15k, 22k, 18k etc on random days of febuary.

The number of upvotes a post will get has grown significantly is what I can observe. This just doesn’t make any sense to me, the unflaired are the most populous userbases here, how can so many unsubbed users upvote posts but not comment on them to the same degree. There should be posts consistently with over 10k comments at minimum right?

All Star Break r/NBA community stats: which team has the most fans active on this subreddit, who gets downvoted the most, who complains about the refs the most, and more!

What is this?

Results: Team Flairs

How many people are in each fanbase on here?

What about the other flairs?

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