Brandon Clarke saw 3,664x more Wikipedia readers than usual

What this article is

Brandon Clarke was a Canadian–American professional basketball player who served as a power forward for the Memphis Grizzlies of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the San Jose State Spartans and the Gonzaga Bulldogs. Clarke was selected by the Oklahoma City Thunder in the first round of the 2019 NBA draft with the 21st overall pick and then immediately traded to the Grizzlies. He was named to the NBA All-Rookie First Team in 2020.

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Where editors were working

Wikipedia editors made 134 edits to this article on 2026-05-12, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.

• College career
• Death
• Personal life
• Early life
• Memphis Grizzlies (2019–2026)
• Career statistics

What changed that day

The article grew by 3,641 characters that day. The largest single addition was 756 characters to Personal life. See everything that changed on 2026-05-12 in Wikipedia's own diff view — that is where the reason for a surge is usually visible, written and sourced by the editors who were following the story.

How this was measured

Views are Wikimedia's own pageview counts for en.wikipedia, filtered to agent=user so automated traffic is excluded. The baseline is the median of the previous 60 days, which is used instead of the mean so that an earlier surge cannot flatten a later one. The multiple is the day's views divided by that median.