Is Basketball Reference Down?

Basketball Reference is a sports service.

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Basketball Reference is UP

Basketball Reference is reachable from our servers. It responded with HTTP 200 in 165ms. If you cannot access it, the issue is likely on your end — try clearing your cache, flushing DNS, or switching networks.

Response: 165ms

Status: HTTP 200

Checked: Tue, 28 Apr 2026 10:01:15 GMT

From: Cloudflare Edge

Site: basketball-reference.com ↗

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About Basketball Reference outages

Basketball Reference (basketball-reference.com) is a sports service. Basketball Reference is a sports service.

Common causes of Basketball Reference outages include server overload, DNS failures, DDoS attacks, software deployments, CDN issues, and infrastructure failures. Most outages resolve within minutes to a few hours.

If Basketball Reference is down for everyone: Check their official status page and social media for updates.

If Basketball Reference is up but not working for you: Try clearing your browser cache, disabling your VPN, flushing DNS, or switching networks.