Dallas Mavericks – Los Angeles Lakers · NBA

Win probability changed during the game. · 26 January 2016

DAL92–90LAL

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There is no sufficient win-probability curve for this game, so it cannot be rated

It measures how much the win probability moved during the game —without looking at who won or at the score— and compares it with the 10,950 NBA games with a curve since 2017. “Highly recommended” is the most intense 20%, “recommended” runs from 50% to 80%, and “skippable” is the rest. Source: ESPN.

Home team's win probability across the game (source: ESPN). The band rises when LAL leads and falls when DAL does.

This is how the game was decided.

J.J. Barea decided it, the Dallas Mavericks player with the most points (18, with 4 rebounds and 4 assists; +4 with him on the floor); the winner's best plus-minus was Dirk Nowitzki's (+18). The criterion: the winner's points in the box score; plus-minus says who was on the floor when the game opened up.

The game-winner in Los Angeles Lakers 90-92 Dallas Mavericks (January 26, 2016) was hit by Dirk Nowitzki: a jump shot with 2.0 s left in the fourth quarter, putting the Dallas Mavericks up 92-90. They never trailed again.

The biggest run of Los Angeles Lakers 90-92 Dallas Mavericks (January 26, 2016) was a 9-0 run by the Dallas Mavericks in the third quarter (from 6:45 to 4:30), from 63-68 to 72-68. The Los Angeles Lakers' best was a 8-0 run in the first quarter (from 5:00 to 3:36), from 16-24 to 24-24.

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Play: Dirk Nowitzki makes two point shot.

I count as the game-winner the basket that puts the winning team ahead for good. Source: the official NBA play-by-play (since 2002-03) and each team's official box scores.

A run here is consecutive points by one team without the opponent scoring. Source: the official NBA play-by-play (since 2002-03) and each team's official box scores.

Source: the game's official box score and play-by-play.

Dirk Nowitzki decided this game: his points put his team ahead with 2 seconds left in the fourth quarter, and the opponent never led again.

It is one of the 17 games he has decided this way in the NBA since the 2002-03 season.

His profile shows the games Nowitzki decided

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A game is decided by the last basket that puts a team ahead in the final ten seconds of the fourth quarter or of an overtime, if that team wins.

26 January 2016 · The source is the ESPN play-by-play, play espn:400828570:528; the date is the one on the NBA box score.

Who stood out on defense during the season

These figures cover the whole 2015-16 regular season, not this game.

Dallas Mavericks

Dirk Nowitzki defended 5.2 shots at the rim per game over his 75 games, and opponents made 3 fewer out of every 100 than usual.
He ranks 40 of 63 in the league.

Los Angeles Lakers

Roy Hibbert defended 5.3 shots at the rim per game over his 81 games, and opponents made 2 fewer out of every 100 than usual.
He ranks 48 of 63 in the league.

Hustle figures come from the hustle stats the NBA publishes (NBA.com) and rim defense comes from its tracking; both cover the regular season. For each player in this game we show the figure that ranks him highest in the league, and for each team, the three best ranked. Ranks count players with at least 30 games and, at the rim, at least 4 defended shots per game.

The Los Angeles Lakers have won 134 of their 203 games against the Dallas Mavericks.

134-69record of the Los Angeles Lakers · NBA 1980-81 – 2025-26, regular season and playoffs

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Official NBA box scores, regular season and playoffs, 1980-81 – 2025-26. It counts every game between the two teams that the house holds, this one included.

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Game context

Attendance

18.997

100% of capacity

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Scoring

182

combined points

23.3 below the season average (205.3)