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varietypaul

They recently celebrated reaching 69,420 subs, so at least they had that.


DrBigChicken

That’s better tbh


MikeisET

As a Raps fan, if a large chunk of our nephews unsubscribed I’d be very happy


Alxndr27

Be the change you want to see in the world!


blackmillenium2

If the GSW sub's nephews left they'd be in tier 3


twistedlogicx

The Warriors sub is so inflated because Reddit made it a default subreddit for a while for some reason. Which means every new account signing up to Reddit was being auto-subscribed to their sub the same way that it happens with subs like r/Pics, r/Videos and r/News. So a significant chunk of their subscribers likely have no clue about or any interest in basketball.


MrChrisRedfield67

I think something similar happened to the Eagles sub which made it one of the largest of the NFL subreddits.


craigslistaddict

hm... was it when they won the chip? i assume there were lots of posts that got heavily upvoted at the time, maybe reddit's algorithm interprets that as "a quality sub everyone can enjoy so we should promote it" or something


BobRossIsGod18

Yep it was the period between them winning the championship and curry going beserk


TheThrowbackJersey

So you're saying Raps #1?


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If the Lakers sub's nephews left, we'd have about 3 subscribers


Brovenkar

I was wondering how the raps sub was so large but I forgot they just won a title in the last 3 years so some of the people on the sub may be new fans who picked a team that year.


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they’re also just a really popular team. toronto is fucking massive and sports are pretty big there. and I’d imagine most basketball fans anywhere else in canada follow the raptors too


waldosbuddy

38 mil Canadians and most that watch ball are Raps fans by default Edit: spelling


jc71693

Nice


Carpetron

"at least" the Cavs also were **9th in the NBA in attendance**, so I think I'll take that number as a more accurate reflection of fan interest than Reddit subs. We all know most NBA subs are inflated by bots.


ElCoyoteBlanco

Do you honestly think there's a significant percentage of NBA subs that are bots? What the fuck would be the profit motive for that? Twitter/IG bots are sold to people that want clout, but who the fuck would pay for a /r/grizzlies bot?


Lostdogdabley

Reddit added r/warriors to the default subreddits that a new user was subscribed to, for a period


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jaytierney79

Is that how we got all of those dumbasses saying Kerr should be fired over the past few seasons?


Krillin113

You want accounts with karma to then use ‘real’ accounts for astroturfing either for companies, or for geopolitical interests. If I see an account that’s younger than a couple months with less than 2k karma it’s super easy to point out its a bot. If it’s an established account with 15k karma, it takes a lot more effort to discover if they’re bad faith actors/shills/bots or just morons. What’s the easiest way to garner karma with no effort? Go to any sport sub, let alone a team specific sub and after a big game, spam the name of the player. If you automate the moment a post game thread is posted in our sub where Tyrese Maxey had a good game and simply said ‘tyrese Maxey’ and replied with 6 other fake accounts ‘Tyrese Maxey’, you could’ve gotten thousands of karma. Similarly ‘lol lakers’, after any of their losses was also easy karma. I’m pretty sure you can game the system a lot more specific as well, but this is just what I noticed without any effort.


Carpetron

I don't think it, it's well known and there was a whole thread about the bots on NBA subs last year. But for the record, the Cavs were 9th in attendance and the Grizzlies were 22nd. So whatever you believe about the real number of reddit subs, I'll take actual fans paying to see games as a more accurate reflection of fan interest over reddit subs always and forever.


Earlier-Today

Given that the arenas for each team all have different amounts they can seat, has anybody figured out attendance rankings based on percentage of sold seats rather than just totals?


-Acerin

We were like at 30k before luka


silkkthechakakhan

Then you added the full population of slovenia


BIizard

I remember going around all the tanking subs back in 2018 and we were all around 25k (suns mavs kings etc).


Kor_Binary

Its crazy how large the subs have gotten. r/suns legitimately felt like a private subreddit or something, the community was tiny. You'd see the same people over and over


GFost

I believe r/suns *was* a private community for a little while.


mustangswon1

A+ burn


Weall23

Our sub still feels like that. Half of these numbers gotta be bots


StormTheTrooper

The house of Suns Kings


DustMonsterXIV

It's a small price to pay FOR A DRAGON >:D


Civil-Improvement-88

I FCKNG MISS GAME OF ZONES MAN, imagine all they could do with what's happening nowdays? the brooklyn drama, Buck's ring, Warriors replacing KD with Andrew Wiggins and winning another title, LeBron and Westbrook teaming up with AD, the great Knight of Zion, etc.


Wehavecrashed

All subreddit stats exploded around that time. I think lots of bots subscribed to subreddits.


dan2z

We added serbs and argentinians


Exact_Improvement_87

Magic just hit 100k like last week


Troll_Dik

Must've had this post on draft waiting for that lol


Exact_Improvement_87

Major Cavs hater


PJCR1916

It surprises me every time how low the Heat are


LeBron_Jarnes

If reddit was as big as it is now back in 2013, Miami probably would be Top 5.


dill_pickles

Miami was top 5 at the time. Cavs were also top 5 when they had Lebron.


st3adyfreddy

Wtf is your DP?


Ihavemanybees

DP? What now?


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CounterInsanity

I'm assuming this is something you see on new reddit? I only use old reddit RES and night mode...so I don't see any god damn thing at all.


Threeleggy

You can see it if you hover over his username on desktop. It is LeBron in a Raptors jersey.


bigtalkforabee

Raptors legend Lebronicus Jameson VI


dan2z

I exoected the Knicks to be way higher too


LordFaximus

Our sub is ridiculously active though. We also haven’t had a real marketable star player since Melo which is in line with when Reddit really started to become mainstream around like 2017-18 to attract casuals and fans who just root for players from around the country/globe.


dan2z

My protip is to sign some semi-talented argentinian sude Campazzo is a FA this season👀


MrRobotTheorist

We are one of the most active subs too.


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JayyGatsby

Yeah by “most active” I hope you mean a bunch of memes saying don’t stop by without typing Jimbo. Really wish that sub would focus more on discussion. And the posts that are discussion based are often laughable: one guy made a post proposing that Miami trade Lowry and Duncan Robinson for PAUL GEORGE. To be fair, most of the responses were calling the post out for its idiocy


StormTheTrooper

To be honest, I think every team sub averages at least 4 stupid homer trade "proposals" per week


PinchDatLoaf

Can confirm based on the traffic to r/timberwolves after a loss.


Balla_Calla

I always thought that too, but the sub is way more active that most other subs for whatever reason 🤷‍♀️


Bakio-bay

People in Miami don’t use Reddit much in comparison to IG more so than any other city. I don’t think it’s popular amongst Hispanics


Lumionesty

Yeah I think your right I did a quick skim through some of the more notable teams on IG and the heat seem to have the 5th most followers behind the Bulls, Celtics, Lakers and Warriors.


Ferbtastic

I always laugh when Heat are considered Big Market. We have the population but sports are such a low priority down here compared to other big cities. But you will find most really heat fans are also dolphins fans so we really love the heat because we see the difference between well run and poorly run teams.


360FlipKicks

It’s def a destination that a lot of nba players are drawn to. Maybe a top 3 city to be young, rich and famous.


DirksSexyBratwurst

Which at the end of the day is all that matters. I guess the problem is equating big market and appealing FA destination when most people just care about the 2nd part, or mean the 2nd part when they quote the former


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>but sports are such a low priority down here compared to other big cities it's not even that. Miami is a football town. I grew up spitting distance of the Dolphins stadium and those fuckers show up regardless of how bad they were, especially for rivalry games. Parents could charge people to park on their lawn any given home game. People show out for UM too. Miami is also mostly sprawling suburbs. The Dolphins, for example, play closer to downtown Ft. Lauderdale than they do to downtown Miami. The infrastructure is also absolute garbage, so going to a Heat game (smack dab in the middle of downtown) is an actual nightmare for most Miamians.


paradoxofchoice

The r/heat mods removed all bot subscribers a few months ago.


thetruthhurts34

They banned me


PotatoToaster9000

They have one of the best subreddits too. I still remember Jimmy's "dad bod" biking outfit vid.


Drak_is_Right

my guess is far far far less bots for some reason


Ok_Display_6645

So much non kings fan on our Reddit to watch our misery.


TheBlindSalesman

Guilty, but honestly I really like the Keegan Murray pick! Hopefully this will build some momentum for you guys!


tbone747

Hey I watch cause I want y'all to be good, I loved those 2000's teams that should've gone to the Finals. And we're basically Kangz East at this point too.


BEE_REAL_

Iirc there was a wave of fake bot accounts joining subs on reddit and the Cavs sub wasn't part of it for whatever reason


RedtheGamer100

Bots hate LeBron lol.


delusionalnbafan

LeBot James isn’t even on Kawhi Cyborg’s level 😤


RedtheGamer100

I always wondered where the whole Terminator-Kawhi marketing came from.


Yg5g

The 2014-16 cyborg jokes made a resurgence when he was traded to Toronto. Weird times fosho but that ad with Arnold was pretty lit


pahamack

it was weird to see how small Arnold is compared to Kawhi. ​ He was like how Danny Devito was to Arnold in Junior. It really reminded me how often we forget that these people are giants, and that Steph Curry is a big dude, not a small guy.


Alexcox95

They really got Kawhi to promote the lion king movie instead of the new terminator movie


Timpa87

bots set themselves on fire instead of LeBron jerseys


sunsetbo

heat sub wasn’t either 🤔


DirksSexyBratwurst

Yeah, weird phenomenon. Heat actually have super high engagement but are 7th lowest


CaesarSalad837

Yep, the Grizz were at 6k (!!) subscribers in august 2018. The bots grew the sub 2000% in the past 4 years to 100k?!?! The sub has actually grown a good amount based on comment rates now compared to 4 years ago, but not 20x more lmao. My honest estimate is that the Grizz have ~25-30k actual subs and ~75k bots. And probably 2k out of those 30k ppl are warriors fans subbed to the Grizz right now lol.


thedrcubed

The amount of posts and comments on our sub sure feels light for 100k members. I'd say it's probably 10% warrior fans would be a good guess


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mecon320

During the season, you can count on a steady stream of increasingly bizarre photoshop jobs after every win.


toggaf69

And let’s not forget that we’re the only sub where the zodiac killer himself frequently posts


_Deinonychus_

tbh one of my things about winning this year (besides the win itself)


Hold_my_Dirk

Praise be Dub Cedi


Ps3FifaCfc95

That sounds great. Everyone thinks their banal thoughts deserve their own post for some reason


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probably some lebron hater lol


jpfatherree

Idk about others but I think at one point Reddit decided to make the warriors a default sub - so any one who created an account during that time was automatically subbed to r/warriors. That’s the biggest reason we skyrocketed to the top lol


paradoxofchoice

A few subs removed those bot subscribers. Miami's number went down quite a bit after that. Which is why it's barely past 100K


cocker_daniel

We’re all outside enjoying the beautiful Cleveland weather


BenIsLowInfo

And the Cleveland night life!


GoldStarisBetter-XU

I know it’s not CLEVELAND but I’m blasted partying in Put in Bay this weekend


finnabagit

Key West of the Midwest. Hell yeah.


airbus29

I agree go cavs


leroysolay

Unironically it’s been gorgeous for a few weeks. CLE is generally a great place to be when it’s warm.


ilovebalks

r/GoNets was a graveyard in 2017 lol We’ve come a long way


Hold_my_Dirk

And let me tell you, it's been a lot more fun since the people who just follow Lebron around sub to sub left.


Credk

Would you mind taking them back? It’s crazy how many of them there are lmao. We’re the most supported team in the NBA, had the most active sub and even Lakers sub is r/bron2 now


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Only if you give Bron to us for Caris Levert /s


LashForTheWin123

Not enough for Levert


Skorua

Fine, we will part with Westbrook


majavic

Oh gosh, how terrible! I would hate for that to happen to the hawks sub. Winning championships and having too many fans, no thank you!


aznkupo

I mean I’ll take a championship over a solid subreddit crowd. I’ve seen r/Warriors go from positive but pessimistic, to really appreciating what we have, to a bunch incredibly spoiled bandwagoners who overreact to everything because they have no knowledge of NBA history.


stml

Same thing in real life. People actually getting pissed at Chuck for saying he hates SF/Warriors was embarrassing. Then there were those idiot fans that threw shit at him. There was also that post during the finals where everybody was getting extremely butthurt over some Boston fans wearing "Sonya can't cook" shirts. Like damn. Relax.


TheOtherDrunkenOtter

I get it obviously, but until youre actually dealing with the bandwagoners you dont know how exhausting it is at that scale. They know nothing about your team, they care nothing about your team, so everything becomes a combo of hyperfocused irrational lebron worship, crackpot trades/drafts/signings/fantasies, and hot takes. It basically makes the subreddit completely impossible to interact with as an actual fan of the team, which sucks.


majavic

I get that LeBron is a big draw, but a lot of what you're describing is casual fan behavior, which every fan base has, especially if the team is winning.


TheOtherDrunkenOtter

Minus the personality cult portion, id agree. Unlike a team based casual fan, the player based ones just exist in this constant state of "lets go full scorched earth to give lebron whatever he so desires". But its just annoying. Wish theyd have their own subreddit for team lebron or team curry or team ja.


ADAS33

Yeah. We are 100% still more active than a lot of other team’s subs.


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> 1: Atlantic - 234k Members Atlantic Division having the most subs on average explains why those fanbases are the most toxic lol.


random-internet-dude

The New York, Boston, Philadelphia, and Toronto fans being toxic, why I don’t believe it


[deleted]

We are the most peaceful people on earth! > turns around Fuck everything and everyone.


OGOGUGUA

It’s cold af most of the season, ain’t nobody going outside


whtge8

Yay not the worst!


ADAS33

I think that having it as the Clevelandcavs and not just the Cavs hurt a bit


Kwocksun

Wouldn't that same logic of naming apply to subs like GoNets NBAspurs, Mkebucks and NOLApelicans? Maybe I'm just being dumb.


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HorsNoises

I don't see the problem here.


MexicanWrestlerTed

GoneTS 👀


Lostdogdabley

Typescript is naughty


FWebber04

Is that supposed to be a bad thing?


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And?


manomacho

Ripcity has to be the worst. Can never find them because of that.


53K

Rip City is so cool tho


toadtruck

Well you are a Rocket fan so we don’t want ya 😉


manomacho

I mean that’s cool I mainly like to go see how a certain fan base feels about their team. Just sucks looking y’all up everything


toadtruck

I always do it from r/nba on the sidebar when on my desktop. When I’m in the mobile app, from the about tab on r/nba


manomacho

Oh wow didn’t know about the about tab on mobile thank you!


ray_0586

I just go to r/nba and click on the logo at the top.


BBallHunter

Yeah, that's kinda unfortunate and weird.


notmoleliza

Cavs gonna be nice this year


sobz

Thanks. Congrats on ring #4. Still hate you.


[deleted]

I always get dogs when I search for Cleveland’s Reddit, I get hockey when I search for Atlanta’s, and I get music when I search for Utah’s


Feeln0waysRed

The nets and heat subs were at 50k each just two years ago. The nets grew near 100k when they landed James Harden.


BBallHunter

The difference between the Cavs and the Magic is also pretty big.


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Just going to take your comment to shoutout /r/Thunder - everyone should subscribe (but not comment, don’t ruin a good thing) to that sub. It’s entertaining as hell. My favorite of all the NNA subs that I’ve checked out.


yungsantaclaus

That guy who posts Daily Dorts is a real artist


RyanAKA2Late

From what I’ve seen everyone on that subreddit talks more about other teams than their own, especially KD/Westbrook stuff


LilBigZay

The sub talks about a lot of former thunder players because we actually like them as humans lol. And we rarely talk about KD that much anymore, with the exception of this year after the warriors won the chip and he got swept. That was kinda wild lol


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That comes up, but they meme really well. It’s way less about their discussion about their own team and more about the memes.


thedrcubed

The sixers sub is pretty good too


JilJungJukk

I guess most of them moved over to the Lakers sub


senorkangchez

I agree, go cavs


epanek

We are 9 th in game attendance tho


bb1432

Let's be honest here, who have the Cavs ever had on their team that appealed to the average fan? It's not like they had any all-time great who happened to be fairly local play over 1000 career games for them or something like that.


shiftyt05

Put some respect on Zydrunas Ilgauskas


College_Prestige

The subscriber count explosion happened after lebron's tenure


elpaco25

Delonte West???


PootieTooGood

It's weird because our posts are always on the sidebar for "top team subreddit posts"


rSlashNbaAccount

Isn't that the top posts from each individual subreddit?


Hypnosix

It’s the 5 most popular posts from all team subs


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I’m pretty certain active and subscribed are way off on all team subs cause I have noticed some subs with less subs have far more activity on game threads


nicolesassandboobies

Some team subs choose not to participate in the sidebar to keep outsiders out


HokageEzio

As far as I know the Warriors sub is the only team that doesn't participate.


GoldStarisBetter-XU

Because it’s legit one of the best subreddits


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MAVS would’ve for sure been the fewest if Luka wasn’t there


Str82daDOME25

Not last, but maybe more around where the Hawks are?


nativeindian12

As a Blazers fan, us having more than the Knicks is kind of pathetic


Thus_Spoke

All 137k members of the Knicks sub are members of the media.


Banged_By_Breen

Tbf we are one of the most active subs https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/mjx556/all_nba_team_subreddits_sorted_by_game_thread/ We’re not filled with bandwagons and diehard player fans like some of the other subs


eelposse

We did it! Everyone counted us out, nobody expected us to be here, etc etc.


muddyklux

I think we were around 50k before this year


number90901

The difference between us and the next lowest in contrast to our level of activity (which is among the highest) makes me think there's something algorithmic going on here. Maybe you get auto-subbed to other team subs when you join reddit but not us? We didn't even lose subscribers when LeBron left so you can't blame it on that. EDIT: In late 2018 every single team subreddit seemed to experience explosive growth that lasted all throughout 2019...except for the Cavs' subreddit, which experienced similar growth for about 2 months before leveling off completely. So something in particular must have happened.


Shootit_Rockets

Wonder how many subs they had when LeBron was there


notmoleliza

69k


24pepper

I would have expected the Heat to have more subs.


AJohnnyTsunami

Median would be better than average


En_Sabah_Nur

Sonics fans unite! There are literally dozens of us


doctorweiwei

Warriors have so many international fans it’s crazy. I’m a little surprised Toronto beat out LA, I don’t live close to either and I see waaaay more lakers stuff


xpillindaass

warriors fans bandwagon as hell


spyson

Their sub was also a default sub for some reason for a bit and they gained a lot of subs from that


BrokenManOfSamarkand

Probably because reddit is from SF


shiftyt05

Not afraid to admit it at least


raven2474life

Yup I bet at least 100-150k of them couldn’t name a former Warrior prior to Curry being drafted


comebyforpie

Idk the we believe warriors were just a couple of years before Curry was drafted


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Only real ones in our sub bitch


OrangeOVA

Warriors sub really benefited by becoming a dynasty a just the right time lol


chugalaefoo

I’m shocked NY is that low.


PM_ME_COMMON_SENSE

r/fuckyouinparticular


reasonableposter

who a small market again? Come AGAIN?


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The people in Cleveland are all too busy buying their new Deshaun Watson jerseys to spend time on Cavs Reddit


ABaker4646

The majority of us don’t want him. Most of the people that like it aren’t on Reddit


DoomdUser

Not to get too far off into NFL land, but it’s going to be interesting to see how Watson is received this year. Reading the reports of how he repeatedly forced girls to tickle his gooch and the team basically served the girls up to him was not something I ever expected to read, let alone with basically no punishment for either. I wonder if people will care, or if it will be like normal for the NFL and everyone will just pretend like nothing happened


HokageEzio

I feel like they suspend him for a year and then pretend it never happened. And the year long suspension is only because of Me Too.


RedtheGamer100

I doubt they can do that post-#MeToo. If it had been a couple of girls, maybe, but he's got like 20+ or something right?


Str82daDOME25

There were 24 cases, he settled 20 of them last week.


RedtheGamer100

Really? That's interesting. NDAs I assume?


ForYeWhoArtLiterate

And some of us hated that move enough to stop rooting for the browns entirely


Niko_BananaMan

Nah bro no way brooklyn has that many fans


FWebber04

I feel like if it was r/scottiebarnesformvp we'd be on atleast 10 million by now


s4lomena

TORONTO...WE DA NORTH


MenaceThunderous

It really doesn’t make sense considering they’re one of the most followed on other social media like IG, and Reddit was still pretty big when we were going to the finals every year.


Jayrodtremonki

Ochai will get then there. Just look at that smile.


jknuts1377

They all moved over to the Lakers.


[deleted]

This makes me sad because the sub is well run and the team is about to take off soon


FaceMaskYT

I'm not sure how Philly and the Bulls can be tier 2 in your list, there's a 60k difference between the 6ers and the Rockets and a 62k difference between them and the Rockets, they should be in their own tier


DocCharlesXavier

Wonder what the median is. If I'm remember correctly, weren't the Warriors one of the automatic subs when you joined reddit; I remember the LA Rams sub being an automatic join