Sacramento Kings – Los Angeles Lakers · NBA

Win probability changed during the game. · 15 November 2019

SAC97–99LAL

Is it worth watching?

Highly recommended

It was more exciting than 80% 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.

↑ LAL winsSAC wins ↓

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

This is how the game was decided.

LeBron James decided it, the Los Angeles Lakers player with the most points (29, with 4 rebounds and 11 assists; +13 with him on the floor). 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 99-97 Sacramento Kings (November 15, 2019) was hit by LeBron James: a free throw with 5.5 s left in the fourth quarter, putting the Los Angeles Lakers up 98-97. They never trailed again.

The biggest run of Los Angeles Lakers 99-97 Sacramento Kings (November 15, 2019) was a 14-0 run by the Los Angeles Lakers in the second quarter (from 7:43 to 3:41), from 29-42 to 43-42. The Sacramento Kings' best was a 10-0 run in the second quarter (from 9:55 to 7:59), from 32-29 to 42-29.

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Play: LeBron James makes free throw 1 of 2.

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.

LeBron James decided this game: his points put his team ahead with 5.5 seconds left in the fourth quarter, and the opponent never led again.

It is one of the 21 games he has decided this way in the NBA since the 2002-03 season.

His profile shows the games James 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.

15 November 2019 · The source is the ESPN play-by-play, play espn:401160816:628; 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.

Sacramento Kings

Richaun Holmes contested 10.0 shots per game over his 44 games.
He ranks 31 of 352 in the league.
Nemanja Bjelica contested 9.6 shots per game over his 72 games.
He ranks 35 of 352 in the league.
Dewayne Dedmon drew 0.14 charges per game over his 44 games.
He ranks 40 of 352 in the league.

Los Angeles Lakers

Anthony Davis recovered 1.7 loose balls per game over his 62 games.
He ranks 1 of 352 in the league.
Danny Green deflected 2.7 passes per game over his 68 games.
He ranks 29 of 352 in the league.
Alex Caruso drew 0.16 charges per game over his 64 games.
He ranks 30 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 Los Angeles Lakers have won 121 of their 186 games against the Sacramento Kings.

121-65record of the Los Angeles Lakers · NBA 1985-86 – 2025-26, regular season and playoffs

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Official NBA box scores, regular season and playoffs, 1985-86 – 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

Crypto.com Arena · Los Angeles

Scoring

196

combined points

27.6 below the season average (223.6)

⚖️ The last two minutes

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

17 calls reviewed1 errors admitted by the NBA

Foul: Offensive · 00:05.5

Harrison Barnes → LeBron James

James (LAL) extends his elbow into Barnes's (SAC) chin before any contact is initiated by Barnes on the perimeter.