nba_stats: NBA Stats API Endpoint Overview
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NBA Stats API Endpoint Overview

Description

Wrappers around the NBA Stats backend at stats.nba.com/stats/.... All requests go through request_with_proxy() (in utils_nba_stats.R) which sets the required NBA-side headers (x-nba-stats-origin: stats, x-nba-stats-token: true, ⁠Referer: https://www.nba.com/⁠) and threads a proxy via getOption("hoopR.proxy") / env vars / explicit ⁠proxy =⁠ arg.

Details

Boxscores (V2)

Tabular resultSets[] responses parsed via nba_stats_map_result_sets(). See nba_boxscoreadvancedv2(), nba_boxscoretraditionalv2(), nba_boxscoredefensivev2(), nba_boxscorefourfactorsv2(), nba_boxscorematchups(), nba_boxscoremiscv2(), nba_boxscoreplayertrackv2(), nba_boxscorescoringv2(), nba_boxscoresimilarityscore(), nba_boxscoresummaryv2(), nba_boxscoreusagev2(), nba_hustlestatsboxscore().

Boxscores (V3)

Nested JSON responses parsed via purrr::pluck(). See nba_boxscoreadvancedv3(), nba_boxscoredefensivev2(), nba_boxscorefourfactorsv3(), nba_boxscorehustlev2(), nba_boxscorematchupsv3(), nba_boxscoremiscv3(), nba_boxscoreplayertrackv3(), nba_boxscorescoringv3(), nba_boxscoretraditionalv3(), nba_boxscoreusagev3().

Play-by-play

Function	Purpose
`nba_pbp()`	V2 + V3 play-by-play (with V3-to-V2 conversion pipeline)
`nba_pbps()`	Multi-game PBP loader
`nba_playbyplayv3()`	V3-only PBP
`nba_pbp_v2`	V2-only PBP (legacy)
`nba_data_pbp()`	Data.nba.com PBP scraper
`nba_live_pbp()`	Live PBP (CDN feed)
`nba_live_boxscore()`	Live boxscore (CDN feed)
`nba_winprobabilitypbp()`	Win-probability PBP overlay

Leaders / standings / league

See nba_leagueleaders(), nba_leaguestandings(), nba_leaguestandingsv3(), nba_iststandings(), nba_dunkscoreleaders(), nba_gravityleaders(), nba_homepageleaders(), nba_leaderstiles().

Player + team season + game stats

Full per-mode / per-split families. Search the reference index for ⁠nba_playerdashboard*⁠, ⁠nba_teamdashboard*⁠, ⁠nba_playerprofile*⁠, nba_playergamelogs(), nba_teamgamelogs(), nba_leaguedashplayerstats(), nba_leaguedashteamstats().

Schedule + scoreboard

nba_schedule(), nba_scheduleleaguev2int(), nba_scoreboard(), nba_scoreboardv2(), nba_scoreboardv3(), nba_todays_scoreboard().

Draft + franchise + reference

nba_draftboard(), nba_drafthistory(), nba_draftcombinestats(), nba_draftcombinedrillresults(), nba_draftcombineplayeranthro(), nba_draftcombinenonstationaryshooting(), nba_draftcombinespotshooting(), nba_franchisehistory(), nba_franchiseleaders(), nba_franchiseleaderswrank(), nba_franchiseplayers().