Thinking Basketball YouTube Stats

@thinkingbasketball · Sports · Updated Nov 7, 2026

Thinking Basketball channel overview

Thinking Basketball (@thinkingbasketball) is a YouTube channel in the Sports niche created in 2018. It has 683K subscribers and 125M total views across 491 videos, an average of 254K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 326K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 250K views. Over the last 12 months, Thinking Basketball published 15 videos, and 1 of them (7%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

How much does Thinking Basketball make?

Returbe estimates Thinking Basketball's YouTube ad revenue at $3.9K – $14K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $2.5 to $9, typically $4.5, 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 $4.5K.

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

Thinking Basketball publishes about 1.1 videos a month. Based on its last 15 uploads, its most common upload day is Sunday (40% of uploads), usually around 18:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 1, 2026.

Thinking Basketball's best outlier videos

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

• The NBA tightened its rules…and it’s glorious1.5M views · Nov 1, 20265.9× typical views
• Dylan Harper's incredible potential403K views · May 31, 20261.6× typical views
• Father Time is losing to LeBron399K views · May 2, 20261.6× typical views
• The Heat offense is built for Giannis311K views · Oct 4, 20261.2× typical views
• Is a 22-year old the best player in the world?300K views · May 13, 20261.2× typical views
• I asked Steve Nash (!) how to master the Pick-n-Roll275K views · Feb 18, 20261.1× typical views
• When the solution doesn’t address the problem252K views · Apr 7, 20261× typical views
• Everything that made the biggest Finals comeback possible250K views · Jun 12, 20261× typical views

Latest videos

3 of Thinking Basketball's last 15 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• The NBA tightened its rules…and it’s glorious1.5M views · Nov 1, 20265.9× typical views
• The Heat offense is built for Giannis311K views · Oct 4, 20261.2× typical views
• Everything that made the biggest Finals comeback possible250K views · Jun 12, 20261× typical views
• Dylan Harper's incredible potential403K views · May 31, 20261.6× typical views
• The Spurs Big Adjustment forces Game 7202K views · May 29, 20260.8× typical views
• (Sorry, Internet) The Thunder are too good135K views · May 24, 20260.5× typical views
• Is a 22-year old the best player in the world?300K views · May 13, 20261.2× typical views
• Father Time is losing to LeBron399K views · May 2, 20261.6× typical views
• What if '90s players played in a modern NBA game?116K views · Apr 30, 20260.5× typical views
• The invisible hand influencing NBA plays211K views · Apr 14, 20260.8× typical views

The Sports niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 38K videos from 1.2K channels in this niche. 17.3% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 24K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $2.5 to $9.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: Victor Foot (57K subs, best video 419.4×), Cam 23 (155K subs, best video 2195.7×), MATHIS FOOTBALL (103K subs, best video 607.2×), NFL on FOX (287K subs, best video 53×), DAZN Fútbol (390K subs, best video 91.4×), CBS Sports Golazo - Europe (142K subs, best video 158.5×).

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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 Thinking Basketball or YouTube.