L.A. Lakers lead the 5 most popular NBA stories of '14

Lots of NBA on Christmas Day as the Oklahoma City Thunder visit the defending NBA Champion San Antonio Spurs at 1:30.

In the second game of ABC’s doubleheader, the Miami Heat host the Cleveland Cavaliers in LeBron James’ first game back in Miami at 4 p.m.

At 11 AM the New York Knicks host the Washington Wizards. And of course, in prime time, the L.A. Lakers at the Chicago Bulls at 7 on TNT.

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And with that, we count down The Sports Bank’s five most popular NBA stories of the year. Numbers indicate unique visitor counts. The Miami Heat are first, but the Lakers represent two of the top five.

1. Miami Heat: who’s staying and who’s leaving 47,983

2. 2014 NBA Mock Draft 8,845

3. John Calipari reaffirms that he’s NOT taking the Lakers job 6,621

4. L.A. Lakers in real trouble if they strike out this summer 5,721

5. NBA Scouts believe Jabari Parker will stay at Duke another year 5,521

No Chicago Bulls stories cracked the NBA top five?

The Sports Bank went over 5,000,000 unique visitors in 2014. Here’s the rest of the year end, most popular archive:

-Five most popular Louis van Gaal stories of 2014 (Dec 19th)

-Five most popular Angel Di Maria stories of 2014 (Dec 18th)

-Five most popular Jay Cutler stories of 2014 (Dec 18th)

-Five most popular female sportscaster stories of 2014 (Dec 23rd)

-Five most popular college basketball stories of 2014 (Dec 27th)

-Five most popular college football stories of 2014 (Jan 1st)

-Five most popular NFL stories of 2014 (not including the Jay Cutler list) (Dec 28th)

-Five most popular news/pop culture stories of 2014 (Dec 29th)

-Top 20 search terms of 2014 (Dec 30th)

-10 most popular overall (Dec 31st)

-5 most popular Liverpool (Dec 27th)

-5 most popular Chelsea (Dec 26th)

-5 most popular Arsenal (Dec 25th)

Paul M. Banks owns, operates and writes The Sports Bank.net ,which is partners with Fox Sports. Read his feature stories in the Chicago Tribune RedEye edition. Listen to him on KOZN 1620 The Zone. Follow him on Twitter (@paulmbanks). His work has been featured in hundreds of media outlets including The Washington Post and ESPN 2

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