Atlanta Hawks – New York Knicks · NBA

Win probability changed during the game. · 4 February 2018

ATL99–96NYK

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
· The win probability swung between the two teams 21 times
· It stayed close for almost the whole game

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.

↑ NYK winsATL wins ↓

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

This is how the game was decided.

Kent Bazemore decided it, the Atlanta Hawks player with the most points (19, with 3 rebounds and 2 assists; +6 with him on the floor); the winner's best plus-minus was Dennis Schröder's (+8). 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 New York Knicks 96-99 Atlanta Hawks (February 4, 2018) was hit by Kent Bazemore: a three-pointer with 8.0 s left in the fourth quarter, putting the Atlanta Hawks up 98-96. They never trailed again.

The biggest run of New York Knicks 96-99 Atlanta Hawks (February 4, 2018) was a 7-0 run by the New York Knicks in the first quarter (from 1:34 to 7.0 s), from 15-18 to 22-18. The Atlanta Hawks' best was a 7-0 run in the first quarter (from 10:50 to 9:34), from 0-5 to 7-5.

What were the keys of the last New York Knicks vs Atlanta Hawks game?

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Play: Kent Bazemore makes 22-foot three point jumper (Mike Muscala 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.

Kent Bazemore decided this game: his points put his team ahead with 8 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 Bazemore 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.

4 February 2018 · The source is the ESPN play-by-play, play espn:400975532:620; 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.

Atlanta Hawks

Dennis Schröder drew 0.24 charges per game over his 67 games.
He ranks 10 of 362 in the league.
Malcolm Delaney drew 0.23 charges per game over his 52 games.
He ranks 14 of 362 in the league.
Kent Bazemore deflected 2.9 passes per game over his 65 games.
He ranks 19 of 362 in the league.

New York Knicks

Kristaps Porziņģis contested 14.0 shots per game over his 47 games.
He ranks 4 of 362 in the league.
Tim Hardaway Jr. drew 0.21 charges per game over his 57 games.
He ranks 16 of 362 in the league.
Enes Freedom contested 8.7 shots per game over his 71 games.
He ranks 50 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 New York Knicks have won 140 of their 266 games against the Atlanta Hawks.

140-126record of the New York Knicks · 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

19.441

98.1% of capacity

Madison Square Garden · New York

Scoring

195

combined points

17.7 below the season average (212.7)