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r/nba

A community for NBA discussion. Founded 2008 · 17.3M members

17.3M members. The best post we have captured here reached 106.6K upvotes, which works out to 6 per 1,000 members.

6peak upvotes per 1,000 members
17.3Mmembers
106.6Kbest post
16.8Kmost comments
1.3Kposts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

40% 39% 18%
Video 40% Text 39% Question 18% Link 3%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

Highlight 121 Highlights 13 National Writer 5 Original Content 3 News 3 All-Access 3 Self-Promo and Fan Art Thread 3 Game Thread 2 Spoilers 2 AMA 2

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

[Surette] TMZ is reporting Kobe Bryant has died in a helicopter crash in Calabasas.

↑ 106.6K 💬 12K link 2020

[Charania] The NBA has suspended its season.

↑ 99.3K 💬 11.9K link 2020

Max Kellerman on Lebron: "It's called selling out. It's very easy to take a stand when there is low to no cost. When there is a real price to pay, th…

↑ 94.4K 💬 4.1K video 2019

I analyzed James Harden's performance in every NBA city to see if there is a correlation between his box score and the city's average strip club rati…

↑ 89.1K 💬 4.2K text 2019

Steve Kerr gives a very heated speech about the Uvalde shooting then storms out

↑ 88.9K 💬 7.3K video 2022

[Highlight] Luka Doncic hits the game-winning three point shot at the buzzer

↑ 83.6K 💬 7K video 2020

[Charania] Nets star Kyrie Irving has entered COVID-19 health and safety protocols.

↑ 72.9K 💬 5.2K link 2021

Paul Pierce admits to shitting his pants in the NBA finals against the Lakers, and faking a knee injury to go to the bathroom [VIDEO]

↑ 72.7K 💬 4K video 2019

THE OKLAHOMA CITY THUNDER HAVE BEEN ELIMINATED FROM 2026 NBA CHAMPIONSHIP CONTENTION

↑ 72.2K 💬 6.1K text 2026

[Megathread] Kobe Bryant has passed away at age 41

↑ 69.6K 💬 16.4K text 2020

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/nba, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/nba?
r/nba describes itself this way: A community for NBA discussion. It was founded in 2008 and has 17.3M members.
How many members does r/nba have?
r/nba has about 17.3M members. ViralHunt has tracked 1.3K of its posts; the biggest reached 106.6K upvotes, which is 6 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/nba?
"[Surette] TMZ is reporting Kobe Bryant has died in a helicopter crash in Calabasas." reached 106.6K upvotes and 12K comments in 2020, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/nba.
What subreddits are similar to r/nba?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/PublicFreakout, r/Wellthatsucks, r/dankmemes, r/BikiniBottomTwitter, r/KidsAreFuckingStupid, r/Eldenring.
What kind of posts do best on r/nba?
Of the posts we hold, 40% are video posts and 39% are text posts.
When is the best time to post on r/nba?
Across 1.3K timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Sunday at 02:00 UTC (37.2K avg upvotes), Sunday at 22:00 UTC (28.3K avg upvotes), Wednesday at 00:00 UTC (23.5K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Thursday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/nba?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/nba has 59.4K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 365 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/nba, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.