Scraping NBA game data from basketball-reference.com

I’m a casual NBA fan: I don’t have time to watch the games but enjoy viewing the highlights on Instagram/Youtube (especially Shaqtin’ A Fool!); I sometimes read game articles and analyses (e.g. Blogtable). Apart from the game being an amazing visual spectacle, it’s fun to drink in the deluge of stats that each game brings. I’m not even talking about advanced stats and “ABPRmetrics“: there’s something exciting about seeing how many different statistical records can be broken on a given night.

As a data/stats person, I’ve been wanting to get my hands on NBA data and play around with it on my own. However, in my internet searching I didn’t come across any free easy-to-use datasets. The website Basketball-Reference.com is an excellent compendium of all the data I would want, but it was embedded within the webpage, not made available in an analysis-ready format. (Or at least, I couldn’t find it, or it wasn’t free.)

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