Where are NBA teams located in each state?

Interactive NBA team map by Tica Lin.

Having worked at 76ers for a full season, I intrinsically memorized every team and city name. I was aware there are some states with multiple teams and some don’t have any, but how are they distributed exactly?

I build an interactive NBA Team Map with team logos on the city locations, and the color of the states representing number of teams. California has 4 teams, Texas has 3, Florida and New York has 2, and others have 1 or 0. It will be interesting to investigate further the population or density of those states/cities, and even comparing the locations of best NCAA teams against NBA teams.

I made use of GeoJSON data and D3.js to create this interactive map.