Sacramento Kings – Charlotte Hornets · NBA

Win probability changed during the game. · 10 December 2021

SAC123–124CHA

Is it worth watching?

Highly recommended

It was more exciting than 94% of NBA games since 2017

· It was still open in the final minutes
· The win probability swung between the two teams 22 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.

↑ CHA winsSAC wins ↓

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

This is how the game was decided.

James Bouknight decided it, the Charlotte Hornets player with the most points (24, with 6 rebounds and 1 assists; +4 with him on the floor); the winner's best plus-minus was Miles Bridges's (+12). 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 Charlotte Hornets 124-123 Sacramento Kings (December 10, 2021) was hit by Cody Martin: a free throw with 5.5 s left in the fourth quarter, putting the Charlotte Hornets up 124-123. They never trailed again.

The biggest run of Charlotte Hornets 124-123 Sacramento Kings (December 10, 2021) was a 14-0 run by the Sacramento Kings between the first quarter and the second quarter, from 28-37 to 42-37. The Charlotte Hornets' best was a 8-0 run in the third quarter (from 3:34 to 2:19), from 84-93 to 92-93.

With 24 points, this is James Bouknight's highest-scoring regular-season game of his career.

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Play: Cody Martin makes free throw 2 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.

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

Cody Martin 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 the only game he has decided this way in the NBA since the 2002-03 season.

His profile shows the games Martin 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.

10 December 2021 · The source is the ESPN play-by-play, play espn:401360206:660; the date is the one on the NBA box score.

Rotations · who was on the floor

Closing lineup · SAC

Fox · Davis · Hield · Mitchell · Bagley

Closing lineup · CHA

Martin · Hayward · Oubre · Bridges · Bouknight

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SAC

Tyrese Haliburton

36′ · +9

De'Aaron Fox

34′ · -10

Harrison Barnes

26′ · -8

Terence Davis

22′ · +4

Alex Len

13′ · +5

Buddy Hield

31′ · -2

Tristan Thompson

21′ · -5

Davion Mitchell

26′ · -1

Marvin Bagley III

27′ · +6

Maurice Harkless

3′ · -3

CHA

Cody Martin

43′ · -3

Gordon Hayward

42′ · +1

Kelly Oubre Jr.

41′ · +1

Miles Bridges

40′ · +12

Vernon Carey Jr.

11′ · -18

JT Thor

28′ · +9

James Bouknight

26′ · +4

Arnoldas Kulboka

3′ · -8

Kai Jones

6′ · +7

Each bar is a stint on the floor (source: NBA). The number is minutes played and the team's +/− with him on the court. SAC and CHA.

These lineups played the most minutes together.

Sacramento Kings

Hield, Bagley, Haliburton, Mitchell, and Thompson played 13.7 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 9 points.
Fox, Davis, Haliburton, Barnes, and Len played 12.8 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 5 points.
Hield, Fox, Bagley, Davis, and Haliburton played 4.6 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 2 points.

Charlotte Hornets

Oubre, Bridges, Martin, Thor, and Hayward played 15.4 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 8 points.
Oubre, Bridges, Martin, Carey, and Hayward played 6.7 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 11 points.
Oubre, Bridges, Martin, Bouknight, and Hayward played 4.9 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 4 points.

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Sacramento Kings

Hield, Fox, Bagley, Mitchell, and Barnes played 3.4 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 1 point.
Hield, Fox, Bagley, Mitchell, and Thompson played 2.5 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 5 points.
Hield, Fox, Mitchell, Thompson, and Barnes played 2.4 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 6 points.
Hield, Fox, Bagley, Haliburton, and Barnes played 2.3 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 2 points.
Fox, Davis, Mitchell, Barnes, and Harkless played 1.7 minutes together.
Their team tied that stretch.
Fox, Davis, Mitchell, Thompson, and Barnes played 1.4 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 1 point.

Charlotte Hornets

Bridges, Martin, Bouknight, Thor, and Hayward played 3.9 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 8 points.
Oubre, Bridges, Martin, Bouknight, and Thor played 3.2 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 3 points.
Oubre, Bridges, Martin, Jones, and Bouknight played 3.0 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 3 points.
Oubre, Martin, Bouknight, Thor, and Hayward played 2.9 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 5 points.
Martin, Kulboka, Carey, Bouknight, and Hayward played 2.7 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 8 points.
Oubre, Bridges, Jones, Bouknight, and Hayward played 2.6 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 3 points.
Oubre, Carey, Bouknight, Thor, and Hayward played 1.7 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 1 point.

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The lineups come from the NBA's official rotation: who was on the floor and when. Each lineup's plus-minus is worked out from every player's stints and is only shown when they all add up with each other and with the final score.

Cody Martin covered 5.33 km, more than anyone in the game.

Gordon Hayward touched the ball 93 times, a game high.
Gordon Hayward made 69 passes, a game high.
Cody Martin had 20 rebound chances, a game high.

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Sacramento Kings

Player	km	km/h	Touches	Passes
Tyrese Haliburton	4.51	7.1	77	61
De'Aaron Fox	4.10	6.7	70	45
Buddy Hield	3.97	7.1	61	39
Marvin Bagley III	3.49	7.1	38	26
Harrison Barnes	3.43	7.4	39	26
Davion Mitchell	3.11	6.7	44	33
Terence Davis	2.91	7.3	38	16
Tristan Thompson	2.37	6.5	26	18
Alex Len	1.53	6.9	20	16
Maurice Harkless	0.42	7.0	1	1

Charlotte Hornets

Player	km	km/h	Touches	Passes
Cody Martin	5.33	7.0	76	59
Gordon Hayward	5.16	7.0	93	69
Miles Bridges	4.83	6.7	90	63
Kelly Oubre Jr.	4.76	6.5	69	50
JT Thor	3.43	6.9	34

The figures come from the NBA's optical tracking (NBA.com) for this game; speed is each player's average while on the floor.

Who stood out on defense during the season

These figures cover the whole 2021-22 regular season, not this game.

Sacramento Kings

Tyrese Haliburton deflected 2.8 passes per game over his 77 games.
He ranks 16 of 386 in the league.
De'Aaron Fox deflected 2.5 passes per game over his 59 games.
He ranks 22 of 386 in the league.
Davion Mitchell drew 0.16 charges per game over his 75 games.
He ranks 30 of 386 in the league.

Charlotte Hornets

Cody Martin drew 0.27 charges per game over his 71 games.
He ranks 9 of 386 in the league.
Miles Bridges contested 8.9 shots per game over his 80 games.
He ranks 28 of 386 in the league.
Kelly Oubre Jr. deflected 2.5 passes per game over his 76 games.
He ranks 28 of 386 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 Charlotte Hornets have won 26 of their 43 games against the Sacramento Kings.

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Game context

Attendance

16.335

85.6% of capacity

Spectrum Center · Charlotte

Scoring

247

combined points

25.8 above the season average (221.2)

⚖️ The last two minutes

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

12 calls reviewed0 no admitted errors