NBA API – Awards Endpoints

We've added two new awards-based endpoints to our NBA API, enabling access to NBA award definitions and seasonal award recipients.

Awards List: Provides a list of all NBA awards available in the API.
Seasonal Awards: Provides all award recipients for a given season and season type.

⭐ Benefit

With these endpoints, access award data for honors such as Most Valuable Player, Sixth Man of the Year, All-NBA First Team, and NBA Scoring Title. Track annual recipients going forward to enrich your player and team profiles.

📋 Recommended Actions

Call the Awards List endpoint to retrieve the full catalog of NBA awards and their IDs, and use those IDs to map awards within your system.
Use the Seasonal Awards endpoint with a season and season type to retrieve recipients for a given year.
Account for awards with multiple recipients (for example, All-NBA and All-Defensive teams), where more than one recipient is returned per award.
Surface award data in your player and team profiles to highlight seasonal honors.

☑️ Sample Requests:

curl --request GET \
     --url https://api.sportradar.com/nba/trial/v8/en/league/awards/list.json \
     --header 'accept: application/json' \
     --header 'x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY'

curl --request GET \
     --url https://api.sportradar.com/nba/trial/v8/en/seasons/2025/reg/awards.json \
     --header 'accept: application/json' \
     --header 'x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY'

🔢 Products

Sport	Product	Version(s)
Basketball	NBA API	v8

🔁 Endpoints Affected

⚙️ Return Samples

<award name="NBA Finals MVP" description="Awarded to the most valuable player of the NBA Finals." type="player" effective_date="2026-06-13" awarded_time_frequency="annual" awarded_time_period="2025-26" id="37b59f7d-e61d-40c8-b4cc-608b58f32433">
<recipient level="winner" name="Jalen Brunson" position="G" id="8d3edba8-9004-4199-9328-cc2208e8b0d3">
    <team id="583ec70e-fb46-11e1-82cb-f4ce4684ea4c" name="Knicks" alias="NYK" market="New York"/>
</recipient>
</award>

"awards": [
    {
        "id": "63f6226f-d668-4403-9d65-d50640fc1e94",
        "name": "All-Defensive First Team",
        "description": "Awarded to the best defensive players following the regular season, and is typically composed of two five-man lineups.",
        "type": "player"
    },
    {
        "id": "d58c9164-ace4-48eb-b483-8c31455a3c1e",
        "name": "All-Defensive Second Team",
        "description": "Awarded to the best defensive players following the regular season, and is typically composed of two five-man lineups.",
        "type": "player"
    },
    {
        "id": "c02be5af-6c32-4354-a42b-3e32a0d8924b",
        "name": "All-NBA First Team",
        "description": "Awarded to the best players in the league following the regular season, and is typically composed of three five-man lineups.",
        "type": "player"
    },