Portland Trail Blazers – Los Angeles Lakers · NBA

Win probability changed during the game. · 9 April 2019

POR104–101LAL

Is it worth watching?

Highly recommended

It was more exciting than 91% of NBA games since 2017

· It was still open in the final minutes
· The win probability swung between the two teams 34 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.

↑ LAL winsPOR wins ↓

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

This is how the game was decided.

Maurice Harkless decided it, the Portland Trail Blazers player with the most points (26, with 8 rebounds and 0 assists; +13 with him on the floor); the winner's best plus-minus was CJ McCollum's (+17). 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 Los Angeles Lakers 101-104 Portland Trail Blazers (April 9, 2019) was hit by Maurice Harkless: a three-pointer with 1.4 s left in the fourth quarter, putting the Portland Trail Blazers up 104-101. They never trailed again.

The biggest run of Los Angeles Lakers 101-104 Portland Trail Blazers (April 9, 2019) was a 8-0 run by the Los Angeles Lakers between the second quarter and the third quarter, from 43-53 to 51-53. The Portland Trail Blazers' best was a 7-0 run in the first quarter (from 10:14 to 9:33), from 0-5 to 7-5.

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Play: Maurice Harkless makes 24-foot three point jumper (CJ McCollum 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.

Maurice Harkless decided this game: his points put his team ahead with 1.4 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 Harkless decided

▸See where these figures come from

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 April 2019 · The source is the ESPN play-by-play, play espn:401071892:654; 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.

Portland Trail Blazers

Damian Lillard recovered 1.5 loose balls per game over his 80 games.
He ranks 20 of 380 in the league.
CJ McCollum recovered 1.3 loose balls per game over his 70 games.
He ranks 42 of 380 in the league.
Jake Layman drew 0.09 charges per game over his 69 games.
He ranks 58 of 380 in the league.

Los Angeles Lakers

JaVale McGee contested 11.7 shots per game over his 75 games.
He ranks 17 of 380 in the league.
Mike Muscala contested 8.9 shots per game over his 64 games.
He ranks 48 of 380 in the league.
Kentavious Caldwell-Pope drew 0.06 charges per game over his 81 games.
He ranks 95 of 380 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 Los Angeles Lakers have won 170 of their 304 games against the Portland Trail Blazers.

170-134record of the Los Angeles Lakers · NBA 1970-71 – 2025-26, regular season and playoffs

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See where it comes from

Official NBA box scores, regular season and playoffs, 1970-71 – 2025-26. It counts every game between the two teams that the house holds, this one included.

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Game context

Attendance

18.997

100% of capacity

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Scoring

205

combined points

17.4 below the season average (222.4)

⚖️ The last two minutes

Official NBA L2M report: every call in the endgame, reviewed by the league.

11 calls reviewed0 no admitted errors