Undergraduate - Data & Analytics Intern

The NBA currently provides eligible employees the option of working remotely one day per week.

The 2027 NBA Summer Internship is a 10-week program that runs from June 7 – August 13, 2027. The program gives participants the opportunity to learn about the business of basketball, develop critical career skills, and contribute to meaningful projects across a range of departments in the NBA and its affiliate leagues (WNBA & G League). In addition to on-the-job experience, interns are invited to participate in a broad array of professional development programming as well as community and social experiences.

The program prioritizes rising seniors, with limited exceptions for graduate students, based on business need. Interns should reflect excellent academic standing and have strong written and verbal communication skills. Additionally, we look for candidates who possess leadership skills as demonstrated through relevant extracurricular or community activities. More information on the Summer Internship program experience can be found here.

Selected interns will support data collection and analysis across one of the following areas: content, media, fan engagement, digital products, and basketball-related initiatives. Past interns have worked across a range of departments including:
Basketball Strategy & Growth, which is responsible for data collection, analysis and technology pertaining to all on-court activities. The group, in partnership with Referee Operations, oversees the Game Review Program to help drive improvements in referee performance and rules clarification initiatives. Basketball Strategy & Growth also leads scheduling optimization, and strategic initiatives focused on innovating and improving the NBA game, such as rules changes, improvements to the competition format and implementation of technologies to improve player health, officiating, game integrity and fan engagement.

Data Strategy & Analytics (DSA), which captures, manages, and analyzes fan and business data to drive informed decision-making across the NBA and its affiliated leagues. The team partners with business units to support key initiatives such as content personalization, customer insights, scheduling, pricing, marketing, fan engagement, and revenue growth. DSA works in partnership with all NBA business units – including Global Content & Media Distribution, Marketing, Global Partnerships, Affiliate Leagues (WNBA, G League, 2K League, Basketball Africa League), and more – and is responsible for ensuring that data-driven analyses are used to make critical business decisions including content personalization, game scheduling and telecast selections, pricing and product mix, customer segmentation, paid and institutional media placements, and more.

These roles require interns to demonstrate a foundational mastery of AI technologies in driving project execution and achieving business objectives.

• Coordinating with data engineers, data analysts, and BI developers on end-to-end model development and deployment to the wider NBA business infrastructure
• Designing statistical analysis and visualizations that relate to league structure, rule changes, game play, improvements to the competition format
• Implementation of technologies to improve player health, game integrity, and fan engagement across all NBA properties, including the NBA, WNBA, NBA G League, and NBA 2K League
• Performing various cross-departmental quantitative analyses regarding on-court activities and trends, which are used to evaluate the NBA's core product
• Working with data governance managers to ensure NBA data meets all safety and privacy requirements
• Collaborating with digital content and reporting…