San Antonio Spurs – Portland Trail Blazers · NBA

Win probability changed during the game. · 10 April 2017

SAS98–99POR

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 POR leads and falls when SAS does.

This is how the game was decided.

Shabazz Napier decided it, the Portland Trail Blazers player with the most points (32, with 6 rebounds and 5 assists; +5 with him on the floor); the winner's best plus-minus was Meyers Leonard'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 Portland Trail Blazers 99-98 San Antonio Spurs (April 10, 2017) was hit by Noah Vonleh: a layup with 0.0 s left in the fourth quarter, putting the Portland Trail Blazers up 99-98. They never trailed again.

The biggest run of Portland Trail Blazers 99-98 San Antonio Spurs (April 10, 2017) was a 9-0 run by the San Antonio Spurs in the third quarter (from 7:07 to 5:33), from 56-60 to 65-60. The Portland Trail Blazers' best was a 7-0 run in the fourth quarter (from 7:26 to 5:39), from 76-81 to 83-81.

What were the keys of the last Portland Trail Blazers vs San Antonio Spurs game?

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Play: Noah Vonleh makes layup.

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.

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

It is the only game he has decided this way in the NBA since the 2002-03 season.

His profile shows the games Vonleh 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.

10 April 2017 · The source is the ESPN play-by-play, play espn:400900587:502; 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.

San Antonio Spurs

LaMarcus Aldridge defended 4.2 shots at the rim per game over his 71 games, and opponents made 16 fewer out of every 100 than usual.
He ranks 2 of 61 in the league.
Kawhi Leonard deflected 3.4 passes per game over his 74 games.
He ranks 9 of 371 in the league.
Pau Gasol contested 11.3 shots per game over his 64 games.
He ranks 18 of 371 in the league.

Portland Trail Blazers

Al-Farouq Aminu contested 9.8 shots per game over his 61 games.
He ranks 34 of 371 in the league.
Meyers Leonard contested 7.7 shots per game over his 74 games.
He ranks 88 of 371 in the league.
Evan Turner recovered 0.8 loose balls per game over his 65 games.
He ranks 110 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 Portland Trail Blazers have won 49 of their 123 games against the San Antonio Spurs.

49-74record of the Portland Trail Blazers · NBA 1996-97 – 2025-26, regular season and playoffs

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Official NBA box scores, regular season and playoffs, 1996-97 – 2025-26. It counts every game between the two teams that the house holds, this one included.

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Game context

Attendance

19.393

99.9% of capacity

Moda Center · Portland

Scoring

197

combined points

14.2 below the season average (211.2)