LA Clippers – Phoenix Suns · NBA

Win probability changed during the game. · 22 June 2021

LAC103–104PHX

Is it worth watching?

Highly recommended

It was more exciting than 95% of NBA games since 2017

· It was still open in the final minutes
· The win probability swung between the two teams 20 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.

↑ PHX winsLAC wins ↓

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

This is how the game was decided.

Cameron Payne decided it, the Phoenix Suns player with the most points (29, with 1 rebounds and 9 assists; +4 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 Phoenix Suns 104-103 LA Clippers (June 22, 2021) was hit by Deandre Ayton: a dunk with 0.0 s left in the fourth quarter, putting the Phoenix Suns up 104-103. They never trailed again.

The biggest run of Phoenix Suns 104-103 LA Clippers (June 22, 2021) was a 9-0 run by the Phoenix Suns in the first quarter (from 8:39 to 7:04), from 2-8 to 11-8. The LA Clippers' best was a 6-0 run in the first quarter (from 11:38 to 9:08), from 0-0 to 6-0.

With 29 points, this is Cameron Payne's highest-scoring game of the 2020‑21 playoffs.

▸See where these figures come from

Play: Deandre Ayton makes alley oop dunk shot (Jae Crowder 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.

It is compared by points with all his official NBA box scores in that scope; it is the same criterion the Analyst uses.

Deandre Ayton decided this game: his points put his team ahead at the buzzer of 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 Ayton 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.

22 June 2021 · The source is the ESPN play-by-play, play espn:401337334:631; the date is the one on the NBA box score.

Who stood out on defense during the season

These figures cover the whole 2020-21 regular season, not this game.

LA Clippers

Paul George recovered 1.1 loose balls per game over his 54 games.
He ranks 16 of 364 in the league.
DeMarcus Cousins drew 0.24 charges per game over his 41 games.
He ranks 16 of 364 in the league.
Ivica Zubac defended 4.9 shots at the rim per game over his 71 games, and opponents made 10 fewer out of every 100 than usual.
He ranks 7 of 143 in the league.

Phoenix Suns

Deandre Ayton contested 13.2 shots per game over his 69 games.
He ranks 5 of 364 in the league.
Cameron Payne drew 0.14 charges per game over his 59 games.
He ranks 40 of 364 in the league.
Jae Crowder drew 0.13 charges per game over his 60 games.
He ranks 43 of 364 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 Phoenix Suns have won 124 of their 199 games against the LA Clippers.

124-75record of the Phoenix Suns · NBA 1984-85 – 2025-26, regular season and playoffs

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See the full head-to-head in the Analyst

See where it comes from

Official NBA box scores, regular season and playoffs, 1984-85 – 2025-26. It counts every game between the two teams that the house holds, this one included.

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Game context

Attendance

16.645

97.5% of capacity

Mortgage Matchup Center · Phoenix

Series

Game 2

Conference finals

PHX 4-2

Scoring

207

combined points

13.6 below the season average (220.6)

⚖️ The last two minutes

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

14 calls reviewed0 no admitted errors