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Average TV viewership of NBA

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NBA regular season games viewership across ABC, ESPN and TNT. An average of 20,000 viewers dropped from 2021-22 to 2022-23.

Top ten countries with most number of Olympic medals in Basketball

Lovely Tyagi

In 2020 Tokyo Olympics, Men’s basketball USA won the gold medal in basketball while France won the Silver, followed by Australia which won the Bronze medal.
While for the women’s basketball, Gold was won by the US, silver by Japan and bronze by France.

Countries with most number of FIBA World Cup wins

Arya S Biju

Germany had its debut win in FIBA Basketball World Cup defeating Serbia by 83-77. flagship event of the International Basketball Federation. The first-ever FIBA Basketball World Cup took place in Argentina in 1950. Yugoslavia and the USA have each been crowned world champions on five occasions, the Soviet Union has three titles to its name, while Brazil and Spain lifted the trophy twice.

National Basketball Association Franchise value by team in 2023 (in billion US dollars)

Nikita Joshi

NBA team winners since 1946 till 2023

Sumanta Sinha

Boston Celtics and Los Angeles Lakers are holding most titles. Both of them won 17 titles so far.

Top 10 highest paid NBA players of all time

Vishisht Dwivedi

The highest paid NBA player of all time is LeBron James.

Top basketball players in the world

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Level of interest in WNBA in the United States

Avantika Khajuria

In a survey conducted in March 2023 in the United States, 27 percent of respondents aged 35 to 44 were casual fans of the WNBA.

Minutes played by top Basketball players

Varidhi Goyal

Wilt Chamberlain has played the most minutes in a season, with 3,882 minutes on the court in 1961-62.

Most frequent causes of death of notable Basketball players

Prajwal Jayaraj