I Love Basketball YouTube Stats

@ilovebasketballco · Sports · Updated Nov 6, 2026

I Love Basketball channel overview

I Love Basketball (@ilovebasketballco) is a YouTube channel in the Sports niche created in 2025. It has 213K subscribers and 1.1B total views across 360 videos, an average of 3M views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 2M views, and a typical video (the median) gets 0 views. Over the last 12 months, I Love Basketball published 66 videos (100% Shorts), and 13 of them (20%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 17 days, I Love Basketball gained 16K subscribers and 87M views, about 5.1M views a day.

How much does I Love Basketball make?

Returbe estimates I Love Basketball 's YouTube ad revenue at $3.6K – $12K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $0.03 to $0.1, typically $0.06, based on the channel's niche, audience language and the share of its views coming from Shorts. At that rate, 1 million long-form views earn about $60.

Ad revenue is only part of the picture: sponsorships, affiliate links, memberships and merch often pay more than ads. Learn how RPM varies by niche in how much YouTubers make per 1,000 views, or check any channel with the free monetization checker.

Upload schedule

I Love Basketball publishes about 31.5 videos a month. Based on its last 66 uploads, its most common upload day is Wednesday (15% of uploads), usually around 20:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 6, 2026.

I Love Basketball 's best outlier videos

An outlier is a video that beats the channel's own typical views. These are I Love Basketball 's biggest hits relative to its normal, the ideas its audience responded to most. What is an outlier video?

• NBA Players Forget They're Mic'd Up 🎤🤣13M views · Sep 10, 20268.2× typical views
• The Greatest Shooter Ever is NOT Curry 🎯🤯12M views · Sep 14, 20267.8× typical views
• LaMelo is ALWAYS Screaming 🗣😝10M views · Sep 11, 20266.5× typical views
• LaMelo and Ant have WAY Too Much Fun Together 🤣✌9.9M views · Oct 13, 20266.4× typical views
• Anthony Edwards LOVES his Dog 🐶💖9.4M views · Sep 21, 20266.1× typical views
• Shaq is the MOST Recognizable Person 😂🤫8.2M views · Sep 23, 20265.3× typical views
• LaMelo is Already INFLUENCING the Team 😂🐺6.9M views · Sep 26, 20264.4× typical views
• LaMelo’s barber thinks he’s slick 😂✂6.6M views · Sep 17, 20264.3× typical views

Latest videos

8 of I Love Basketball 's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• Luka DEFENDS a Referee 💖🤝57K views · Nov 6, 20260× typical views
• Rudy Gobert Gets on LaMelo's NERVES 🤬🙄276K views · Nov 5, 20260.2× typical views
• Is This THE END of the BIG 3? 😨😢324K views · Nov 4, 20260.2× typical views
• These New Cellys Are TOO TUFF 🥶💪430K views · Nov 3, 20260.3× typical views
• VJ and LeBron Are Like FATHER and SON 😜🔥2M views · Nov 2, 20261.3× typical views
• HALLO-WEMBY Never Misses 🎃😲1.7M views · Nov 1, 20261.1× typical views
• LaMelo Doesn't Follow the RULES ✌🤣1.5M views · Oct 31, 20261× typical views
• How Does LeBron Remember EVERY Handshake? 😂🤝900K views · Oct 30, 20260.6× typical views
• The Reason Behind the NBA Injuries... 😨2.1M views · Oct 29, 20261.3× typical views
• Everyone is Getting INJURED 💔🦴1.6M views · Oct 28, 20261× typical views

The Sports niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 34K videos from 1K channels in this niche. 17.9% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 21K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $2.5 to $9.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: Victor Foot (56K subs, best video 189.4×), MATHIS FOOTBALL (103K subs, best video 607.2×), DAZN Fútbol (390K subs, best video 230.6×), Cam 23 (155K subs, best video 1020.3×), NFL on FOX (287K subs, best video 55.7×), El Balón de Icaro (353K subs, best video 603.4×).

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Frequently asked questions

Data from Returbe's index of YouTube channels, collected from public YouTube data. Earnings are estimates from views and RPM benchmarks, not figures from the channel. Returbe is not affiliated with I Love Basketball or YouTube.