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Basketball Reference's Season in Review is here! We dug up the numbers on which player and team pages you visited the most throughout the season.

What we tracked:

1. Top 10 player page views
2. Top 10 team page views
3. Top player page views by month
4. Most viewed players on a single day
5. First team all-page views

Here's the link with all the images in one place: https://info.basketball-reference.com/25-26-nba-season-review

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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!

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.

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.

Carmelo Anthony scored 26 points in a 121-63 victory over the Hornets. Denver went on to win the series, 4 games to 1.

Box score: https://www.basketball-reference.com/boxscores/200904270NOH.html

Below is the leaderboard for largest margins of victory in postseason history:

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