Lev Akabas
@LevAkabas
NBA đ & sports business đĩ data viz đ for @Sportico
All opinions are my own
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US Open Fan Week is awesome. You can watch the world's best tennis players play for free, plus activities for kids and other experiences.
However, this year, for the first time, they require a free "Fan Access Pass" for adults who want to attend.
Registration for it is closed.
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If you thought streaming NFL regular season games was complicated, have you tried streaming preseason games?
h/t @JacobFeldman4
Arctos Partners has reached a deal to buy 10% of the Atlanta Falcons at a valuation just over $10 billion
U.S. Open prize money is up 20% from last year's record total:
âĸ $108M total purse
âĸ $5.5M for the singles winners
âĸ $140K for first round losers
Full story to come shortly
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Olivia Miles is having an insane rookie season
3-point attempt rates for every NBA team since 2005 3ī¸âŖđđ
The US Open's Honey Deuce price will remain at $23 this year, per @markjburns88
It's the first time the price has stayed the same for three straight years since 2012-2014, but the price increase since then still well outpaces inflation
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A data viz on now Hall-of-Fame NBA coach Mike D'Antoni
His teams finished 1st, 1st, 2nd, 5th, 2nd, 2nd, 2nd, 2nd, 3rd, 9th, 1st, 1st, 1st, and 1st in the league in 3-point attempt rate đĨ
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The US Open has announced 5 of the 8 mixed doubles wild cards
Most likely to get in imo:
âĸ Osaka & Nishikori
âĸ Venus & Bublik
âĸ Pegula & Draper
Noticeably missing:
âĸ Boulter & de Minaur đ
âĸ Navarro & Paul đēđ¸
âĸ Kalinskaya & Musetti đĨ
âĸ Muchova & Mensik
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A few weeks ago, @BenRothenberg outed Phuel Sports Science as the partner for the @WTA's controversial gender testing.
With the program starting, we tried to learn about the company. And we hit a lot of dead ends.
More w/ @DanielLibit and @germanotes
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Ben Shelton defended his title đ at the 2026 Canadian Open in Montreal last night
Everyone knows he has a rocket for a 1st serve, but Shelton's second serve is what really sets him apart. In the past 52 weeks, 27% (!!!) of his second serves have been unreturned, per @TennisViz
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NBA back-to-backs have hovered around 17% of all games since the league made a big effort to reduce them in the second half of the 2010s
Every NBA team's national TV / streaming games in 2026-27 âŦī¸
LeBron and Wemby get bumped up to the max 34 games, joining the Knicks and Lakers
MSG Sports revenue in the quarter ending June 30 was up $75 million in 2026 thanks to the New York Knicks' NBA title run and surging MSG ticket prices
