Chicago Bulls – Milwaukee Bucks · NBA

Win probability changed during the game. · 28 November 2018

CHI113–116MIL

Is it worth watching?

Highly recommended

It was more exciting than 87% of NBA games since 2017

· It was still open in the final minutes
· The win probability swung between the two teams 16 times

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.

↑ MIL winsCHI wins ↓

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

This is how the game was decided.

Giannis Antetokounmpo decided it, the Milwaukee Bucks player with the most points (36, with 11 rebounds and 8 assists; +1 with him on the floor); the winner's best plus-minus was Donte DiVincenzo's (+13). 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 Milwaukee Bucks 116-113 Chicago Bulls (November 28, 2018) was hit by Khris Middleton: a three-pointer with 5.2 s left in the fourth quarter, putting the Milwaukee Bucks up 116-113. They never trailed again.

The biggest run of Milwaukee Bucks 116-113 Chicago Bulls (November 28, 2018) was a 7-0 run by the Chicago Bulls in the fourth quarter (from 5:02 to 3:02), from 102-107 to 109-107. The Milwaukee Bucks' best was a 6-0 run in the first quarter (from 6:16 to 5:05), from 11-22 to 17-22.

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Play: Khris Middleton makes 25-foot three point jumper (Malcolm Brogdon 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.

Khris Middleton decided this game: his points put his team ahead with 5.2 seconds left in the fourth quarter, and the opponent never led again.

It is one of the 3 games he has decided this way in the NBA since the 2002-03 season.

His profile shows the games Middleton 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 November 2018 · The source is the ESPN play-by-play, play espn:401070991:700; the date is the one on the NBA box score.

Who stood out on defense during the season

These figures cover the whole 2018-19 regular season, not this game.

Chicago Bulls

Ryan Arcidiacono drew 0.20 charges per game over his 81 games.
He ranks 21 of 380 in the league.
Chandler Hutchison drew 0.19 charges per game over his 42 games.
He ranks 22 of 380 in the league.
Wendell Carter Jr. contested 10.6 shots per game over his 44 games.
He ranks 25 of 380 in the league.

Milwaukee Bucks

Ersan Ilyasova drew 0.73 charges per game over his 67 games.
He ranks 1 of 380 in the league.
Brook Lopez contested 19.3 shots per game over his 81 games.
He ranks 1 of 380 in the league.
Giannis Antetokounmpo defended 4.2 shots at the rim per game over his 72 games, and opponents made 11 fewer out of every 100 than usual.
He ranks 4 of 129 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 Milwaukee Bucks have won 151 of their 298 games against the Chicago Bulls.

151-147record of the Milwaukee Bucks · 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

16.660

96.1% of capacity

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Scoring

229

combined points

6.6 above the season average (222.4)