Oklahoma City Thunder – Denver Nuggets · NBA

Win probability changed during the game. · 9 April 2017

OKC106–105DEN

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 DEN leads and falls when OKC does.

This is how the game was decided.

Russell Westbrook decided it, the Oklahoma City Thunder player with the most points (50, with 16 rebounds and 10 assists; +10 with him on the floor); the winner's best plus-minus was Jerami Grant'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 Denver Nuggets 105-106 Oklahoma City Thunder (April 9, 2017) was hit by Russell Westbrook: a three-pointer with 0.0 s left in the fourth quarter, putting the Oklahoma City Thunder up 106-105. They never trailed again.

The biggest run of Denver Nuggets 105-106 Oklahoma City Thunder (April 9, 2017) was a 7-0 run by the Denver Nuggets in the first quarter (from 7:35 to 6:28), from 5-10 to 12-10. The Oklahoma City Thunder' best was a 6-0 run in the first quarter (from 6:03 to 5:09), from 10-12 to 16-12.

With 34 points, this is Danilo Gallinari's highest-scoring game of the 2016‑17 regular season.

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Play: Russell Westbrook makes 36-foot three point jumper (Steven Adams 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.

It is compared by points with all his official NBA box scores in that scope; it is the same criterion the Analyst uses.

Russell Westbrook decided this game: his points put his team ahead at the buzzer of the fourth quarter, and the opponent never led again.

It is one of the 8 games he has decided this way in the NBA since the 2002-03 season.

His profile shows the games Westbrook 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.

9 April 2017 · The source is the ESPN play-by-play, play espn:400900576:540; 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.

Denver Nuggets

Nikola Jokić contested 11.3 shots per game over his 73 games.
He ranks 19 of 371 in the league.
Gary Harris deflected 2.9 passes per game over his 56 games.
He ranks 24 of 371 in the league.
Mason Plumlee contested 9.9 shots per game over his 81 games.
He ranks 32 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 Denver Nuggets have won 40 of their 81 games against the Oklahoma City Thunder.

40-41record of the Denver Nuggets · 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

19.718

101% of capacity

Ball Arena · Denver

Scoring

211

combined points

0.2 below the season average (211.2)