The most — and second most — viewed player pages on Basketball Reference in 2025. (Spoiler: there’s a lot of LeBron and MJ)

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1. Context: You asked to see who the second most viewed players were in 2025, so the map wouldn’t just be 47 states of LeBron … now it’s 38 states of MJ.

2. Crazy that LeBron is either #1 or #2 in each state.

3. Oklahoma holding it down for shai lol

4. Lol it’s so funny seeing people in this sub get salty over how much upvotes LeBron content gets even when we’re getting our asses handed to us.

5. LeGerrymandering

6. As context: these maps have been made for other sports (at least [NFL](https://np.reddit.com/r/nfl/comments/1pj532c/pro_football_reference_maps_of_the_most_viewed/)), and none of them have this level of single-player saturation.

   These maps are hilarious and amazing, so thank you.

7. LeUnited States

8. Nikola Jokic

9. this is not even surprising. He’s lebron

10. Surrounded on all sides by Lebron, Jokic 🤝 SGA to hold the center.

11. LeElection

12. Tatum 🙂

13. why does that one vertical line of states like Jokic so much?

14. The Jokic belt

15. I’m glad the best 3 players are justly represented in their states. 

16. They’ve got another one that shows the most viewed player pages across their whole network (football, basketball and baseball) and it’s also basically just LeBron everywhere lol

17. He is our sunshine

18. LeCtoral College

19. Dumb guys across America saying, “Alright, it’s time to get to the bottom of this.” As they open two tabs and type in “LeBron James stats” and “Michael Jordan stats” into Google.

20. Kind of crazy that a guy who’s been retired for 25 years is #2. I mean as someone who lived that that era I get it. He really was that good… but it’s still kind of crazy

21. Massachusetts what da hell

22. 511 electoral votes for LeBron, not bad. only better are fdr ’36, reagan ’84, and nixon ’72.

23. “lebron James. Lebron James… Leeebron Jaaames”

24. I think this settles the Goat debate

25. That’s incredible