About NBA MCP Server
NBA MCP Server provides Claude with access to recent and past NBA game results and statistics. It retrieves scores, player statistics, and four factors using nba_api.
Key features
- 01Fetch past game scores
- 02Retrieve player P/R/A stats
- 03Retrieve detailed player stats
- 04Fetch game four factors
Use cases
- 01Check scores from yesterday's games
- 02Review players' points, rebounds, and assists
- 03Inspect detailed player box-score statistics
- 04Compare four factors across games
MCP support
Exposes NBA game results and statistics to Claude through an MCP server.
Configuration
Local server config is the same for every client. Copy it into your client’s MCP config file.
We haven’t collected a package or remote endpoint for this server. Follow the instructions in the project README.
Tools
Local servers expose tools only once running on your machine, and the maintainer has not provided a tool list.
Details
From the project READMENBA MCP Server
Description
An MCP server for Anthropic's Claude LLM that allows the model to fetch recent NBA games and stats that it struggles to currently. It does this using the opensource nba_api
Installation
Run these steps in the directory where you have cloned the repo
uv venv
.venv\Scripts\activate
uv pip install -e .
Then add the configuration to your Claude config as you would for any other MCP Server.
Features
- Fetch the fetch the final score for all game(s) that happened yesterday / in the past
- Fetch the basic P/R/A breakdown for all players that played in game(s) that happened yesterday / in the past
- Fetch the full PTS/REB/AST/STL/BLK/TO/PLUS_MINUS/MIN that happened yesterday / in the past
- Fetch the four factors for all the game(s) that happened yesterday / in the past
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