Team API lookup pilot

Los Angeles Lakers API team ID

NBA · basketball · LAL

Build with Los Angeles Lakers data

Use this canonical ID in the team-detail request below. It identifies this team in Big Balls Sports Data, not in another provider's API.

490c5fad-b50e-4b3e-9cd9-a06c8f7db301

Find the team by name

Set BBS_API_KEY to your own API key. Name search can match aliases; confirm the returned identity before using an ID. For a broader catalogue, follow limit and offset and read pagination.total rather than treating one page as the full list.

curl 'https://api.bigballsdata.com/v1/teams?sport=basketball&league=nba&name=Los+Angeles+Lakers&limit=2' -H "x-api-key: $BBS_API_KEY"

Fetch this team

curl 'https://api.bigballsdata.com/v1/teams/490c5fad-b50e-4b3e-9cd9-a06c8f7db301?sport=basketball' -H "x-api-key: $BBS_API_KEY"

Captured on . This is a selected-field excerpt of a real response, not live data or the complete response. Match totals cover all finished matches held for this team; they are not a current-season record or a claim of complete historical coverage.

{
  "data": {
    "id": "490c5fad-b50e-4b3e-9cd9-a06c8f7db301",
    "name": "Los Angeles Lakers",
    "short_name": "LAL",
    "sport": "basketball",
    "league": "NBA",
    "stats": {
      "matches_played": 611,
      "matches_with_scores": 611,
      "wins": 353,
      "draws": 0,
      "losses": 258
    }
  },
  "meta": {
    "stats_scope": "all finished matches held for this team"
  }
}