[1] Sports Business Journal called the site "one of the most influential independent voices within basketball".
[2] In 2005, a thread on the RealGM.com forum was mentioned as a source of motivation for Washington Wizards guard Juan Dixon after a playoff game in which he scored 35 points.
[4] In 2012, a RealGM poll was mentioned by Ernie Johnson of the TNT broadcast team during a 2012 playoff game between the Oklahoma City Thunder and the San Antonio Spurs.
The poll asked RealGM users to vote on which TNT commentator they thought would make the best NBA General Manager.
[5] In late 2013, a group of Milwaukee Bucks fans who populate the highly active Bucks Forum[6] crowd-funded the creation of a local billboard designed to encourage the local ownership of the team to scrap their long-held commitment to mediocrity and, instead, focus on a youth-driven rebuilding process.