Rick Adelman is drawing 307x more Wikipedia traffic than normal

What this article is

Richard Leonard Adelman was an American professional basketball player and coach. He coached 23 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He served as head coach of the Portland Trail Blazers, Golden State Warriors, Sacramento Kings, Houston Rockets, and Minnesota Timberwolves. He was inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Massachusetts, in the class of 2021. As a coach he won 1,042 games, which at the time of his death was the tenth-highest in league history. Adelman never won a title, but led many of his teams to deep runs in the playoffs including two trips to the NBA Finals with Portland.

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Where editors were working

Wikipedia editors made 19 edits to this article on 2026-06-02, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.

• Chemeceta Community College
• Chemeketa Community College
• Early life and playing career
• Houston Rockets
• Personal life and death
• Sacramento Kings

What changed that day

The article grew by 541 characters that day. The largest single addition was 343 characters. See everything that changed on 2026-06-02 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.