Template:Basketballstats/doc

Guidelines

This will create an external link to the statistics for a basketball player.

Usage

This template takes up to four parameters:

• nba, for active National Basketball Association (NBA) players, the player's name as it appears after http://www.nba.com/playerfile/ in its NBA.com player page url
• nba_historical, for former NBA player, the player's name as it appears after http://www.nba.com/historical/playerfile/index.html?player= in its NBA.com player page url
• bbr, for NBA or original American Basketball Association players, the id as it appears after http://www.basketball-reference.com/players/ and before .html in its Basketball-Reference.com player page url
• dleague for NBA D-League players, the player's name as it appears after http://www.nba.com/dleague/playerfile/ and before /index.html in its NBA.com/dleague player page url

Examples

Active NBA player Kobe Bryant:

{{basketballstats|nba=kobe_bryant|bbr=b/bryanko01}}

Output:

• Career statistics and player information from NBA.com, or Basketball-Reference.com

Retired NBA player Kareem Abdul-Jabbar:

{{basketballstats|nba_historical=kareem_abdul-jabbar|bbr=a/abdulka01}}

Output:

• Career statistics and player information from NBA.com, or Basketball-Reference.com

Active NBA player and former D-Leaguer Jeremy Lin:

{{basketballstats|nba=jeremy_lin|bbr=l/linje01|dleague=jeremy_lin}}

Output:

• Career statistics and player information from NBA.com, or Basketball-Reference.com, or NBA.com/dleague

See also

• {{Cite basketball-reference}}, for usage of Basketball-Reference.com player pages as citations