Miami Heat – Toronto Raptors · NBA

Win probability changed during the game. · 9 January 2018

MIA90–89TOR

Is it worth watching?

Highly recommended

It was more exciting than 83% of NBA games since 2017

· It was still open in the final minutes

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.

↑ TOR winsMIA wins ↓

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

This is how the game was decided.

Goran Dragic decided it, the Miami Heat player with the most points (24, with 12 rebounds and 4 assists; -3 with him on the floor); the winner's best plus-minus was Bam Adebayo'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 Toronto Raptors 89-90 Miami Heat (January 9, 2018) was hit by Wayne Ellington: a layup with 0.0 s left in the fourth quarter, putting the Miami Heat up 90-89. They never trailed again.

The biggest run of Toronto Raptors 89-90 Miami Heat (January 9, 2018) was a 11-0 run by the Toronto Raptors in the third quarter (from 10:44 to 8:44), from 41-53 to 52-53. The Miami Heat' best was a 7-0 run in the third quarter (from 7:16 to 5:23), from 55-54 to 62-54.

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Play: Wayne Ellington makes layup (Goran Dragic 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.

Wayne Ellington 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 Ellington 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 January 2018 · The source is the ESPN play-by-play, play espn:400975345:631; the date is the one on the NBA box score.

Who stood out on defense during the season

These figures cover the whole 2017-18 regular season, not this game.

Miami Heat

Kelly Olynyk drew 0.20 charges per game over his 76 games.
He ranks 22 of 362 in the league.
Goran Dragic recovered 1.3 loose balls per game over his 75 games.
He ranks 26 of 362 in the league.
Josh Richardson deflected 2.7 passes per game over his 81 games.
He ranks 27 of 362 in the league.

Toronto Raptors

Jonas Valančiūnas contested 11.0 shots per game over his 77 games.
He ranks 17 of 362 in the league.
Jakob Poeltl contested 10.0 shots per game over his 82 games.
He ranks 28 of 362 in the league.
Serge Ibaka contested 9.0 shots per game over his 76 games.
He ranks 41 of 362 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 Toronto Raptors have won 51 of their 118 games against the Miami Heat.

51-67record of the Toronto Raptors · NBA 1995-96 – 2025-26, regular season and playoffs

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Official NBA box scores, regular season and playoffs, 1995-96 – 2025-26. It counts every game between the two teams that the house holds, this one included.

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Game context

Attendance

19.800

100% of capacity

Scotiabank Arena · Toronto

Scoring

179

combined points

33.7 below the season average (212.7)