Hoopstography is a visual and interactive timeline of professional basketball history, spanning from the sport's earliest organized roots in 1894 to the present day. Every dot is a real event — zoom in to explore eras, hover to read.
Heavily inspired by Histography.io by Matan Stauber, a stunning interactive timeline of all of human history sourced from Wikipedia.
Data Sources
NBA.com/history — The official NBA historical record, scraped and structured into 1,400+ milestone events covering championships, records, rule changes, expansions, and drafts.
Hoopsrewind.app — A daily NBA history trivia game sharing the same event database. Events are deduplicated against the NBA.com dataset to avoid overlap.
About Me
NBA history nerd and data engineer who likes to build websites. This is one of those websites.
Get in Touch
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