2023 NBA Finals: Denver Nuggets vs Miami Heat

The Miami Heat are the first team since 1999 to finish eighth in the regular season and reach the NBA Finals (their sixth time in franchise history) after clinching a seventh game against the Boston Celtics Sunday. The Heat, led by Jimmy Butler, will face the Denver Nuggets, the best team in the Western Conference, looking to win their first NBA championship ring.

The NBA Finals tip-off is tonight, and the two franchises’ superstars, Nikola Jokić and Jimmy Butler, will look to win their first-ever NBA trophy.

We could talk and talk about stats and fun facts on the 2023 NBA Finals. For instance, how the Nuggets’ Jokić is the MVP with the lowest draft pick, or Kevin Love’s good fortune — whenever he has has been in the playoffs, his team has reached the NBA Finals. But what we’re here to talk about are all the social media, marketing, and sponsorship insights around the Nuggets and Heat’s road to the NBA Finals.

Social Score Cards: 2023 NBA Finalists

Blinkfire’s social score cards uses data from our Media Kit to reviews a team’s social media performance. For both the Nuggets and the Heat, we looked at how the teams performed during the playoffs across their top five social networks.

Global Ranking: Players

Blinkfire’s Global Ranking Report is one of the most popular tools on our platform. It allows users to compare data from teams in the same league or create custom groups of entities.

Here are the top 10 players from the Heat and Nuggets with the most Instagram followers. 

NBA and Teams Follower Distribution

The end of each season is the moment when an organization’s departments like marketing and partnerships analyze content trends, review best performing networks, and report on KPIs. Data is essential for every organization when it comes to creating the strategy for the next season. We looked at the NBA and NBA teams follower distribution from the last the day of the regular season on April 9, 2023. Sina Weibo has an enormous presence for NBA and NBA teams on social media, making up 13.2% of NBA followers and 24.3% of NBA teams’ followers.

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