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r/NBAoldschool

31K members. The best post we have captured here reached 5.8K upvotes, which works out to 187 per 1,000 members.

187peak upvotes per 1,000 members
31Kmembers
5.8Kbest post
407most comments
300posts 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.

72% 16%
Video 72% Image 16% Link 6% Gallery 3% Question 2% Text 1%

The topics it labels

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

Throwback 94 Highlights 38 Video 22 Stats 12 Meme/Funny 10 Opinion 6 Debate 5 News & Updates 5 on this day 3

What the ceiling looks like

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

Dennis Rodman, at 44 years old in 2005, signed a one-game contract for $100 with a GM he met in a bar in Finland. He took the court in Torpan Pojat…

↑ 5.8K πŸ’¬ 237 video 2026

[2011] Never forget when just one reporter showed up to interview Isaiah Thomas at the NBA Draft.

↑ 4.8K πŸ’¬ 111 image 2026

Larry Bird retired 34 years ago today Patrick Ewing: "I'll be sad I won't be able to bust his butt anymore" Larry Bird: "He's had 8 years to bust m…

↑ 3K πŸ’¬ 36 video 2026

[Highlights] Pippen saving Tracy McGrady from having a horrible fall after a dunk attempt.

↑ 3K πŸ’¬ 48 video 2026

Larry Bird really fought the Bad Boys one by one and then jogged back on offense like nothing happenedπŸ’€ Vintage Boston activity

↑ 2.4K πŸ’¬ 237 video 2026

Unapologetically Rodman: How Embracing His Uniqueness Made Dennis an NBA Legend

↑ 2.1K πŸ’¬ 53 video 2026

Michael Jordan’s famous tap pass to Shaq falling out of bounds in the β€˜96 All-Star game mic’d up πŸ‘€

↑ 1.9K πŸ’¬ 59 video 2026

Every NBA game in the 80s-90s was a BATTLE:

↑ 1.5K πŸ’¬ 391 video 2026

Michael Jordan and Dominique Wilkins playing street ball together is already cool enough. Doing it underneath the Gateway Arch makes it way more lege…

↑ 1.4K πŸ’¬ 38 video 2026

The worm celebrating shots before makin em🀣

↑ 1.4K πŸ’¬ 164 video 2026

Communities its size

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

r/NBAoldschool, in numbers

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

How many members does r/NBAoldschool have?
r/NBAoldschool has about 31K members. ViralHunt has tracked 300 of its posts; the biggest reached 5.8K upvotes, which is 187 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/NBAoldschool?
"Dennis Rodman, at 44 years old in 2005, signed a one-game contract for $100 with a GM he met in a bar in Finland. He took the court in Tor" reached 5.8K upvotes and 237 comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/NBAoldschool.
What subreddits are similar to r/NBAoldschool?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/teslastockholders, r/TheMirrorCult, r/CzechCoconutCommunity, r/InterviewMan, r/news2, r/bondmarket.
What kind of posts do best on r/NBAoldschool?
Of the posts we hold, 72% are video posts and 16% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/NBAoldschool?
Across 300 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Sunday at 12:00 UTC (1.5K avg upvotes), Monday at 23:00 UTC (1K avg upvotes), Sunday at 15:00 UTC (645 avg upvotes). The busiest day is Tuesday. 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/NBAoldschool?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/NBAoldschool has 876 upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 300 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/NBAoldschool, 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.