US Basketball APIs

Version 8 of US Basketball APIs

Release Date Feeds Affected Benefit

04/06/2023

All

Release Date	Feeds Affected	Benefit
04/06/2023	All	Version 8 of our basketball APIs has been released. Updates include: Added latitude and longitude coordinates for all league venues. Added team RGB primary and secondary colors for all teams (NBA only) Added and updated game-level turnover statistics in order to better distinguish important player and team turnovers. Statistics include: `player_turnovers` – Number of turnovers attributed to players in a game (this appears under `turnovers` in previous API versions) `team_turnovers` – Number of rebounds attributed to a team in a game `total_turnovers` – Number of total turnovers in a game (`player_turnovers` + `team_turnovers`) Added and updated game-level rebound statistics in order to better distinguish important player and team rebounds. Statistics include: `personal_rebounds` – Number of rebounds attributed to players in a game (this appears under `rebounds` in previous API versions) `team_rebounds` – Number of rebounds attributed to a team in a game `total_rebounds` – Number of total rebounds in a game (`personal_rebounds` + `team_rebounds`) Added several new shot type descriptions for all games in the Play-by-Play endpoint. Added the number of timeouts remaining for each team in the game endpoints. Each game will now include a `remaining_timeouts` attribute under `team` (Boxscore/Summary) or `home`/`away` (PBP).

Version 8 of our basketball APIs has been released. Updates include:

Added latitude and longitude coordinates for all league venues.

Added team RGB primary and secondary colors for all teams (NBA only)

Added and updated game-level turnover statistics in order to better distinguish important player and team turnovers. Statistics include:

player_turnovers – Number of turnovers attributed to players in a game (this appears under turnovers in previous API versions)
team_turnovers – Number of rebounds attributed to a team in a game
total_turnovers – Number of total turnovers in a game (player_turnovers + team_turnovers)

Added and updated game-level rebound statistics in order to better distinguish important player and team rebounds. Statistics include:

personal_rebounds – Number of rebounds attributed to players in a game (this appears under rebounds in previous API versions)
team_rebounds – Number of rebounds attributed to a team in a game
total_rebounds – Number of total rebounds in a game (personal_rebounds + team_rebounds)

Added several new shot type descriptions for all games in the Play-by-Play endpoint.

Added the number of timeouts remaining for each team in the game endpoints. Each game will now include a remaining_timeouts attribute under team (Boxscore/Summary) or home/away (PBP).

Update applies to: NBA v8, WNBA v8, NBA G League v8, NCAA Men's Basketball v8, NCAA Women's Basketball v8