Welcome back to Keeping Score, our Friday column that highlights the personalities, teams and games that sports fans are talking about — by the numbers.

7: Basketball Hall of Famers drafted or acquired by Don Nelson
One of the most influential NBA coaches and executives ever, Don Nelson died this week at age 86. As a player, Nelson won five NBA championships and his No. 19 hangs in the Boston Garden rafters, and as a coach his 1,335 victories is behind only Gregg Popovich's 1,390. His "Nellie Ball" style of play — inspired by Red Auerbach's Celtics practices — prioritized smaller and more athletic players and was the progenitor of the "small ball” style that changed the NBA. For his part, Nelson always insisted that he only played “Nellie Ball” by necessity: "When you have bad teams, you’ve got to be creative to win games you’re not supposed to win.” But his most lasting legacy may be as a GM, where he proved to have an unmatched eye for transcendental NBA talent. He drafted Hall of Famers Sidney Moncrief, Šarūnas Marčiulionis, Mitch Richmond and Tim Hardaway, and acquired on or near draft night Hall of Famers Chris Webber and Dirk Nowitzki. He also traded for a young Steve Nash (Hall of Fame class of 2018) and encouraged the Warriors to draft Steph Curry with the seventh pick in 2009, though he was the Warriors coach and not the GM at the time. And he won his retirement, too, moving to Maui, where he liked to golf, play poker with actor Owen Wilson, and grow marijuana. RIP, Nellie.

4: Days after playing in the World Cup that French forward Michael Olise appeared sockless in an NYC pickup game
The Bayern Munich superstar had just set the record for assists at a single World Cup for France when he joined a pickup game at Manhattan's Gansevoort Peninsula Athletic Field in checkered pants, an orange T-shirt and no shoes, and gave some amateurs the experience of a lifetime. Something special happens when these French athletes get to New York. In 2024, San Antonio Spurs center Victor Wembenyama played chess with fans in Washington Square Park.

18: Bottles of red wine that Open Champion Ryan Fox drank out of the Claret Jug
The winner of the Open Championship gets to keep the Claret Jug for a year, and many champions put the trophy to its proper use. Phil Mickelson brought the Claret Jug to golf clubs all year long after he won at Muirfield in 2013, and would only fill it with the finest wine, including a 1990 bottle of Romanée-Conti that sells for around $40,000. Rory McIlroy wasn't so discerning. He famously drank Jägerbombs (Red Bull and Jägermeister) from the Claret Jug after winning at Royal Liverpool in 2014. But Mickelson and McIlroy have nothing on Fox, who told the Golf Channel's Eamon Lynch and Damon Hack that he and about 50 friends drank 18 bottles of red wine from the Claret Jug at Fox's Open victory party in New Zealand.

$2,193.95: The average cost of a family of four to attend a Buffalo Bills game
The Action Network reviewed ticket and concession prices (four tickets, two beers, two soft drinks, and four hot dogs) for all 32 NFL teams. The price tag for a family of four to see the Buffalo Bills at newly opened Highmark Stadium in Orchard Park, N.Y., ranked No. 1 at $2,193.95, ahead of the No. 2 Chicago Bears ($2,049.80), and the No. 3 Philadelphia Eagles ($2,010). For the record, the median income in Buffalo is $50,041, according to the US Census. The cheapest day out at an NFL game is found just 200 miles from Buffalo along the shores of Lake Erie in Cleveland, where taking the family to a Browns game will set you back just $731.04. (Parking not included.) 

306,000: Attendance at the 2026 Open Championship
The R&A broke attendance records this summer at its signature tournament when more than 300,000 fans showed up at Royal Birkdale. Birkdale's distinct topography, with every hole surrounded by giant sand dunes that create natural viewing areas, is well-suited to accommodate large crowds. But Colin Montgomerie told Today's Golfer that he's concerned some of the traditional Open links courses won't be able to handle similar numbers. “Some of these classic courses are running out of room,” Monty said. “Muirfield is running out of room. Turnberry is running out of room. There’s a number of them that infrastructurally cannot cope with 300,000 fans. At St. Andrews next year they’re talking about 400,000. Hang on. These old courses at the end of a train line can’t cope.”

71: Percent of the Los Angeles Lakers owned by Mark Walter, which he is selling in a deal that values the team at $12.5 billion
The ink has barely dried on Guggenheim Partners CEO Mark Walter's agreement to buy the Lakers. Now Walter is selling his 71% share of the team to Thrive Capital founder Josh Kushner, brother of Ivanka Trump’s husband, and former Disney CEO Bob Iger in a deal that values the Lakers at $12.5 billion. According to Bloomberg, the Department of Justice is taking a look at Walter's investment empire, which includes some of the crown jewels of sports like the Los Angeles Dodgers (27% ownership) and Chelsea Football Club (17% ownership).

4,200: Seats at the new Field of Dreams Ballpark in Dyersville, Iowa
Netflix broadcast the MLB's third-ever Field of Dreams Game between the Phillies and the Twins on Thursday night in a brand-new stadium constructed on the site of the ball field that Universal built in July 1988 when filming the beloved Kevin Costner movie. The family's farm house is now an AirBnB. Costner wasn't in Iowa on Thursday, but he narrated an emotional introduction video. Organizers added bleacher seats for Thursday’s game, bringing the ballpark's total capacity to around 8,000. And I'm not going to say it, but, yes, they did come.

23: Years since two American players faced off in an ATP Masters 1000 final
Ben Shelton beat Brandon Nakashima 6-3, 7-6 (4) in the National Bank Open final in Montreal Thursday night, but the real winner was American tennis. Two American men hadn't faced each other in an ATP Masters 1000 final since Andy Roddick defeated Mardy Fish to win the Cincinnati Masters in August 2003. Other noteworthy events in August 2003: An 18-year-old phenom from Portugal named Cristiano Ronaldo made his debut for Manchester United, and the social-networking website MySpace had its official launch.

5: Streaming services needed to watch all the Philadelphia Eagles' 2026 games
If you are a Philadelphia Eagles fan living outside of the Philadelphia metro area, you will need to have subscriptions to Sunday Ticket, YouTube, Peacock, Fox One and Amazon Prime to watch every regular season Eagles game and it will cost you $526, according to HuddleMaxx.com.

19-1: Tiger Woods' record in match play at the US Amateur
The luckiest golf fans this weekend will be following the action at the US Amateur at Merion Golf Club in suburban Philadelphia. The US Amateur is one of the last bastions of tournament match play (the Ryder Cup is an exhibition), and Tiger Woods' case for being the best match-play player ever rests largely on his three-consecutive US Amateur titles from 1994-1996. He also won three US Junior Amateur titles.

63: Age of Mike McCoy, the oldest player in the field at the US Amateur
With his Pine Valley visor and his cigar, McCoy wasn't just the senior player in the field this week, he was also the coolest. The retired insurance salesman has had a glittering career as an amateur golfer, capped by an appearance in the Walker Cup in 2015 and being captain of the Walker Cup team that won in St. Andrews in 2023. McCoy qualified for this year's US Amateur by winning last year's US Senior Amateur. He didn't make the match-play rounds this week, but he won on style points. ⛳

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