NBACentel

@TheNBACentel

NBACentel's X avatar
Formation	July 2022; 2 years ago (July 2022)
Founded at	Toronto, Canada
Affiliations	none
Website	X account

NBACentel (sometimes spelled as NBA Centel), often referred to simply as Centel, is the handle of a satirical sports journalism page on Twitter. A parody of National Basketball Association (NBA) news aggregator page NBACentral, the Centel page often posts humorous or outlandish faux headlines regarding NBA teams, players, coaches, and personalities. Because of the account's similar appearance to NBACentral, many readers are fooled by the account's satirical headlines, mistaking them for genuine sports reporting. Professional NBA players and sports media figures have been tricked by the account, which has since been dubbed "getting Centel'd".

Despite explicitly labeling itself as a parody account, NBACentel has been the subject of critique online due to its contribution towards monetized disinformation on social media. The account garnered further attention after it was abruptly shadow-banned from X on 26 February 2025, before being reinstated the following day. As of April 2025,^[update] Centel has over 600,000 followers on the platform.