Years ago, when Basketball Reference was emerging as the internet's leading stats website, it decided sports internet nicknames would have a home with them.

The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame is regarded as one of the easiest to gain enshrinement in major American sports. Using Basketball-Reference's Hall of Fame probability stat as a guide, we ...

Career stats: 15.7 points, 11.8 rebounds, 1.3 assists, 1.8 blocks, 58.7% FG Awards: 3x Defensive Player of the Year, 8x All-Star, 8x All-NBA, 5x All-Defensive Championships: 1 Other accolades: 2012 ...

Last month, Harden also passed Andre Miller (8,524) for No. 12 all-time in assists and has 8,553 in his career. He’ll need ...

Who calls LeBron James "The Little Emperor?" Why is James Harden nicknamed "Honey Bun?" Since when is Drew Eubanks known as "The Shaq of Troutdale?" These are all questions chronically online ...

Dick Pfander has spent most of his life collecting and analyzing box scores from every NBA game since the league’s founding. He did most of his work in solitude, by hand, before the age of personal ...

Check out the milestones on the radar of some of the biggest names in the NBA right now. NBA.com Staff Chris Paul and LeBron James are both approaching big career milestones. James has played 1,506 ...