Boston Celtics – Utah Jazz · NBA

Win probability changed during the game. · 28 March 2018

BOS97–94UTA

Is it worth watching?

Highly recommended

It was more exciting than 82% of NBA games since 2017

· It was still open in the final minutes
· 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.

↑ UTA winsBOS wins ↓

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

This is how the game was decided.

Jaylen Brown decided it, the Boston Celtics player with the most points (21, with 5 rebounds and 3 assists; +5 with him on the floor); the winner's best plus-minus was Shane Larkin's (+25). 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 Utah Jazz 94-97 Boston Celtics (March 28, 2018) was hit by Jaylen Brown: a three-pointer with 0.3 s left in the fourth quarter, putting the Boston Celtics up 97-94. They never trailed again.

The biggest run of Utah Jazz 94-97 Boston Celtics (March 28, 2018) was a 15-0 run by the Utah Jazz in the third quarter (from 5:56 to 4:09), from 54-58 to 69-58. The Boston Celtics' best was a 11-0 run in the second quarter (from 5:29 to 3:17), from 30-32 to 41-32.

What were the keys of the last Utah Jazz vs Boston Celtics game?

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Play: Jaylen Brown makes 27-foot three point jumper (Semi Ojeleye 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.

Jaylen Brown decided this game: his points put his team ahead with 0.3 seconds left in 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 Brown 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.

28 March 2018 · The source is the ESPN play-by-play, play espn:400975867:624; 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.

Boston Celtics

Aron Baynes drew 0.21 charges per game over his 81 games.
He ranks 16 of 362 in the league.
Shane Larkin drew 0.12 charges per game over his 50 games.
He ranks 47 of 362 in the league.
Jaylen Brown deflected 2.0 passes per game over his 70 games.
He ranks 61 of 362 in the league.

Utah Jazz

Rudy Gobert contested 15.0 shots per game over his 56 games.
He ranks 1 of 362 in the league.
Ricky Rubio deflected 3.0 passes per game over his 77 games.
He ranks 13 of 362 in the league.
Derrick Favors contested 10.7 shots per game over his 77 games.
He ranks 19 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 Utah Jazz have won 25 of their 57 games against the Boston Celtics.

25-32record of the Utah Jazz · 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

18.306

100% of capacity

Delta Center · Salt Lake City

Scoring

191

combined points

21.7 below the season average (212.7)