Philadelphia 76ers – Portland Trail Blazers · NBA

Win probability changed during the game. · 2 November 2019

PHI129–128POR

Is it worth watching?

Highly recommended

It was more exciting than 80% of NBA games since 2017

· 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.

↑ POR winsPHI wins ↓

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

This is how the game was decided.

Al Horford decided it, the Philadelphia 76ers player with the most points (25, with 5 rebounds and 7 assists; +8 with him on the floor); the winner's best plus-minus was Raul Neto'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 Portland Trail Blazers 128-129 Philadelphia 76ers (November 2, 2019) was hit by Furkan Korkmaz: a three-pointer with 0.4 s left in the fourth quarter, putting the Philadelphia 76ers up 129-128. They never trailed again.

The biggest run of Portland Trail Blazers 128-129 Philadelphia 76ers (November 2, 2019) was a 15-0 run by the Portland Trail Blazers in the second quarter (from 5:22 to 3:23), from 45-45 to 60-45. The Philadelphia 76ers' best was a 12-0 run between the third quarter and the fourth quarter, from 86-102 to 98-102.

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Play: Furkan Korkmaz makes 24-foot three point jumper (Ben Simmons 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.

Furkan Korkmaz decided this game: his points put his team ahead with 0.4 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 Korkmaz 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.

2 November 2019 · The source is the ESPN play-by-play, play espn:401160726:676; the date is the one on the NBA box score.

Who stood out on defense during the season

These figures cover the whole 2019-20 regular season, not this game.

Philadelphia 76ers

Ben Simmons recovered 1.7 loose balls per game over his 57 games.
He ranks 2 of 352 in the league.
Al Horford contested 10.1 shots per game over his 67 games.
He ranks 30 of 352 in the league.
Matisse Thybulle deflected 2.6 passes per game over his 65 games.
He ranks 36 of 352 in the league.

Portland Trail Blazers

Skal Labissiere defended 5.3 shots at the rim per game over his 33 games, and opponents made 13 fewer out of every 100 than usual.
He ranks 4 of 141 in the league.
CJ McCollum recovered 1.2 loose balls per game over his 70 games.
He ranks 25 of 352 in the league.
Kent Bazemore deflected 2.7 passes per game over his 68 games.
He ranks 25 of 352 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 Portland Trail Blazers have won 32 of their 58 games against the Philadelphia 76ers.

32-26record of the Portland Trail Blazers · NBA 1996-97 – 2025-26, regular season and playoffs

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See where it comes from

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

19.669

101.3% of capacity

Moda Center · Portland

Scoring

257

combined points

33.4 above the season average (223.6)

⚖️ The last two minutes

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

13 calls reviewed0 no admitted errors