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NBA·June 18, 2026 09:29 PM ET

r/nba thread sets out to rank every basketball stat by usefulness

Community project weighs which numbers matter.

Wire Report IntelligenceUpdated Jun 191 min read
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What happened: A post on the r/nba community proposes cataloguing essentially every basketball statistic and grading each one on usefulness and other characteristics. The author frames it as a crowd-informed reference rather than a reaction to any game, trade, or roster move.

Why it matters: Debates over which metrics carry real signal are a recurring fault line among fans, with traditional box-score totals often weighed against efficiency and impact measures. A ground-up ranking attempts to give that argument a shared starting point.

What to watch: Watch whether the thread converges on a usable tier list of metrics or splinters into the familiar counting-stats-versus-advanced-stats disagreement.

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