Data set on mortality of national basketball association (NBA) players

Jose A Martínez; Klaus Langohr; Julián Felipo; Luciano Consuegra; Martí Casals

doi:10.1016/j.dib.2022.108615

Data set on mortality of national basketball association (NBA) players

Data Brief. 2022 Sep 17:45:108615. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2022.108615. eCollection 2022 Dec.

Authors

Jose A Martínez¹, Klaus Langohr², Julián Felipo³, Luciano Consuegra⁴, Martí Casals^{5

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Affiliations

¹ Department of Business Economics, Universidad Polite´cnica de Cartagena, Cartagena 30201, Spain.
² Department of Statistics and Operations Research, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya/BarcelonaTECH, Barcelona 08034, Spain.
³ Newsroom, Basketball Departament, Mundo Deportivo, Barcelona 08036, Spain.
⁴ Unidad de Hemodinámica Cardíaca, Servicio de Cardiología, Hospital Universitario de Santa Lucia, Cartagena, Murcia, Spain.
⁵ Sport and Physical Activity Studies Centre (CEEAF), University of Vic-Central University of Catalonia (UVic-UCC), Vic 08500, Spain.
⁶ National Institute of Physical Education of Catalonia (INEFC), University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.

Abstract

In this work, we present a data set on the survival times and mortality rates of all 4374 professional basketball players who participated in the National Basketball Association (NBA) from its inception in 1946 until July 2019 [1]. It contains the data of 412 active and 3962 former players. The data were recorded from different internet sources and include information on each player's position, ethnicity, handedness, ages at NBA debut and career end, height, weight, or number of NBA games. The results of the analysis of a previous data set with the same variables of all NBA players from 1946 to 2015 were recently published by Martinez et al. in 2019 [2]. The information provided in the data set can be useful to better understand the mortality risk among NBA players.

Keywords: Basketball; Mortality; NBA; Sports statistics; Standardized mortality ratio; Survival analysis.