API-Sports

API-Basketball

API-Basketball provides real-time and historical basketball data including games, standings, team and player statistics and season coverage across hundreds of leagues and competitions worldwide. Distinct from API-NBA, which covers the NBA specifically.

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https://api-sports.io/documentation/basketball/v1

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API entry from apis.yml

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: api-sports:api-basketball
name: API-Basketball
description: API-Basketball provides real-time and historical basketball data including games, standings,
  team and player statistics and season coverage across hundreds of leagues and competitions worldwide.
  Distinct from API-NBA, which covers the NBA specifically.
humanURL: https://api-sports.io/sports/basketball
baseURL: https://v1.basketball.api-sports.io/
tags:
- Basketball
- Live Scores
- Standings
- Sports Data
- Statistics
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://api-sports.io/documentation/basketball/v1