Boston Celtics – Atlanta Hawks · NBA

Win probability changed during the game. · 13 January 2017

BOS103–101ATL

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 ATL leads and falls when BOS does.

This is how the game was decided.

Isaiah Thomas decided it, the Boston Celtics player with the most points (28, with 4 rebounds and 9 assists; +13 with him on the floor); the winner's best plus-minus was Kelly Olynyk's (+20). 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 Atlanta Hawks 101-103 Boston Celtics (January 13, 2017) was hit by Isaiah Thomas: a jump shot with 2.0 s left in the fourth quarter, putting the Boston Celtics up 103-101. They never trailed again.

The biggest run of Atlanta Hawks 101-103 Boston Celtics (January 13, 2017) was a 11-0 run by the Boston Celtics in the first quarter (from 6:30 to 4:54), from 8-8 to 19-8. The Atlanta Hawks' best was a 8-0 run in the third quarter (from 2:34 to 1:21), from 57-77 to 65-77.

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Play: Isaiah Thomas makes 19-foot 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.

Isaiah Thomas 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 2 games he has decided this way in the NBA since the 2002-03 season.

His profile shows the games Thomas 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.

13 January 2017 · The source is the ESPN play-by-play, play espn:400900018:521; 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.

Boston Celtics

Marcus Smart drew 0.29 charges per game over his 79 games.
He ranks 8 of 371 in the league.
Al Horford contested 13.0 shots per game over his 68 games.
He ranks 9 of 371 in the league.
Kelly Olynyk drew 0.19 charges per game over his 75 games.
He ranks 18 of 371 in the league.

Atlanta Hawks

Paul Millsap contested 12.7 shots per game over his 69 games.
He ranks 10 of 371 in the league.
Malcolm Delaney drew 0.21 charges per game over his 71 games.
He ranks 15 of 371 in the league.
Thabo Sefolosha deflected 2.8 passes per game over his 62 games.
He ranks 27 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 Atlanta Hawks have won 122 of their 298 games against the Boston Celtics.

122-176record of the Atlanta Hawks · NBA 1968-69 – 2025-26, regular season and playoffs

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Official NBA box scores, regular season and playoffs, 1968-69 – 2025-26. It counts every game between the two teams that the house holds, this one included.

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Game context

Attendance

18.216

106.9% of capacity

State Farm Arena · Atlanta

Scoring

204

combined points

7.2 below the season average (211.2)