Oklahoma City Thunder – Los Angeles Lakers · NBA

Win probability changed during the game. · 22 November 2016

OKC109–111LAL

Is it worth watching?

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 OKC does.

This is how the game was decided.

Jordan Clarkson decided it, the Los Angeles Lakers player with the most points (18, with 3 rebounds and 4 assists; +6 with him on the floor); the winner's best plus-minus was Tarik Black's (+9). 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 111-109 Oklahoma City Thunder (November 22, 2016) was hit by Nick Young: a three-pointer with 5.0 s left in the fourth quarter, putting the Los Angeles Lakers up 111-109. They never trailed again.

The biggest run of Los Angeles Lakers 111-109 Oklahoma City Thunder (November 22, 2016) was a 10-0 run by the Los Angeles Lakers in the first quarter (from 3:18 to 1:13), from 15-14 to 25-14. The Oklahoma City Thunder' best was a 10-0 run in the fourth quarter (from 3:12 to 13.0 s), from 99-108 to 109-108.

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Play: Nick Young makes 27-foot three point jumper (Brandon Ingram assists).

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.

Nick Young decided this game: his points put his team ahead with 5 seconds left in the fourth quarter, and the opponent never led again.

It is one of the 3 games he has decided this way in the NBA since the 2002-03 season.

His profile shows the games Young 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.

22 November 2016 · The source is the ESPN play-by-play, play espn:400899661:528; the date is the one on the NBA box score.

Who stood out on defense during the season

These figures cover the whole 2016-17 regular season, not this game.

Oklahoma City Thunder

Russell Westbrook recovered 1.4 loose balls per game over his 81 games.
He ranks 8 of 371 in the league.
Steven Adams contested 12.6 shots per game over his 80 games.
He ranks 11 of 371 in the league.
Victor Oladipo recovered 1.3 loose balls per game over his 67 games.
He ranks 17 of 371 in the league.

Los Angeles Lakers

Larry Nance Jr. deflected 2.7 passes per game over his 63 games.
He ranks 33 of 371 in the league.
Julius Randle contested 9.4 shots per game over his 74 games.
He ranks 38 of 371 in the league.
Jordan Clarkson recovered 1.1 loose balls per game over his 81 games.
He ranks 44 of 371 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 34 of their 78 games against the Oklahoma City Thunder.

34-44record of the Los Angeles Lakers · NBA 2008-09 – 2025-26, regular season and playoffs

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Official NBA box scores, regular season and playoffs, 2008-09 – 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

Crypto.com Arena · Los Angeles

Scoring

220

combined points

8.8 above the season average (211.2)