Phoenix Suns – Dallas Mavericks · NBA

Win probability changed during the game. · 8 November 2024

PHX114–113DAL

Is it worth watching?

Highly recommended

It was more exciting than 96% of NBA games since 2017

· It was still open in the final minutes
· The win probability swung between the two teams 26 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.

↑ DAL winsPHX wins ↓

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

This is how the game was decided.

Kevin Durant decided it, the Phoenix Suns player with the most points (26, with 5 rebounds and 4 assists; +11 with him on the floor); the winner's best plus-minus was Royce O'Neale's (+14). 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 Dallas Mavericks 113-114 Phoenix Suns (November 8, 2024) was hit by Jusuf Nurkić: a free throw with 0.1 s left in the fourth quarter, putting the Phoenix Suns up 114-113. They never trailed again.

The biggest run of Dallas Mavericks 113-114 Phoenix Suns (November 8, 2024) was a 10-0 run by the Dallas Mavericks in the third quarter (from 10:11 to 8:36), from 55-65 to 65-65. The Phoenix Suns' best was a 10-0 run in the first quarter (from 2:29 to 1:12), from 23-22 to 33-22.

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Play: Jusuf Nurkic 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.

Jusuf Nurkić decided this game: his points put his team ahead with 0.1 seconds left in the fourth quarter, and the opponent never led again.

It is one of the 4 games he has decided this way in the NBA since the 2002-03 season.

His profile shows the games Nurkić 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.

8 November 2024 · The source is the ESPN play-by-play, play espn:401704756:633; the date is the one on the NBA box score.

Rotations · who was on the floor

Closing lineup · PHX

Durant · Beal · Booker · O'Neale · Allen

Closing lineup · DAL

Doncic · Irving · Thompson · Dinwiddie · Powell

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PHX

Kevin Durant

37′ · +11

Bradley Beal

36′ · -14

Devin Booker

35′ · -17

Jusuf Nurkic

34′ · -3

Tyus Jones

31′ · +5

Royce O'Neale

29′ · +14

Grayson Allen

19′ · +6

Mason Plumlee

14′ · +4

Josh Okogie

5′ · -1

DAL

Luka Doncic

42′ · -4

Kyrie Irving

41′ · +8

Klay Thompson

34′ · +5

Naji Marshall

29′ · -7

Daniel Gafford

23′ · 0

Spencer Dinwiddie

28′ · -2

Dwight Powell

25′ · -1

Olivier-Maxence Prosper

3′ · +1

Quentin Grimes

9′ · -1

Jaden Hardy

3′ · -1

Kessler Edwards

2′ · -4

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

These lineups played the most minutes together.

Phoenix Suns

Jones, Booker, Durant, Beal, and Nurkic played 10.1 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 13 points.
Jones, O'Neale, Durant, Beal, and Nurkic played 7.5 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 5 points.
Jones, Booker, O'Neale, Durant, and Nurkic played 5.6 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 1 point.

Dallas Mavericks

Doncic, Gafford, Marshall, Irving, and Thompson played 11.3 minutes together.
Doncic, Marshall, Irving, Thompson, and Powell played 6.9 minutes together.
Doncic, Gafford, Irving, Thompson, and Dinwiddie played 6.1 minutes together.

The plus-minus of each Dallas Mavericks lineup is not shown: its rotation stints do not add up with each other.

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Phoenix Suns

Jones, O'Neale, Allen, Durant, and Plumlee played 4.6 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 13 points.
Booker, O'Neale, Durant, Beal, and Nurkic played 4.3 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 4 points.
Booker, Allen, Durant, Beal, and Plumlee played 3.2 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 1 point.
Booker, Allen, Okogie, Beal, and Plumlee played 2.7 minutes together.
Their team tied that stretch.
Booker, Allen, Okogie, Beal, and Nurkic played 2.6 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 1 point.
Booker, O'Neale, Allen, Beal, and Plumlee played 2.4 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 8 points.
Jones, Booker, O'Neale, Beal, and Nurkic played 2.0 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 2 points.
O'Neale, Allen, Durant, Beal, and Plumlee played 1.5 minutes together.
Their team tied that stretch.
Jones, Booker, O'Neale, Allen, and Nurkic played 1.4 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 1 point.

Dallas Mavericks

Doncic, Marshall, Irving, Dinwiddie, and Powell played 3.7 minutes together.
Doncic, Grimes, Irving, Dinwiddie, and Powell played 3.3 minutes together.
Prosper, Irving, Thompson, Dinwiddie, and Powell played 3.3 minutes together.
Doncic, Gafford, Grimes, Thompson, and Dinwiddie played 2.7 minutes together.
Marshall, Hardy, Irving, Dinwiddie, and Powell played 2.1 minutes together.
Doncic, Gafford, Grimes, Marshall, and Dinwiddie played 1.7 minutes together.
Doncic, Hardy, Irving, Thompson, and Powell played 1.4 minutes together.
Doncic, Marshall, Edwards, Dinwiddie, and Powell played 1.2 minutes together.
Doncic, Grimes, Marshall, Dinwiddie, and Powell played 1.0 minutes together.

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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.

Kyrie Irving covered 4.42 km, more than anyone in the game.

Tyus Jones touched the ball 78 times, a game high.
Tyus Jones made 62 passes, a game high.
Jusuf Nurkić had 25 rebound chances, a game high.

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Phoenix Suns

Player	km	km/h	Touches	Passes
Bradley Beal	4.05	6.3	74	54
Kevin Durant	3.88	5.9	62	40
Jusuf Nurkić	3.86	6.5	70	54
Tyus Jones	3.77	6.9	78	62
Devin Booker	3.77	6.2	55	37
Royce O'Neale	3.57	6.9	57	47
Grayson Allen	2.35	7.0	22	16
Mason Plumlee	1.95	7.5	21	16
Josh Okogie	0.69	7.5	9	4

Dallas Mavericks

Player	km	km/h	Touches	Passes
Kyrie Irving	4.42	6.1	64	40
Luka Dončić	4.36	5.8	68	36
Klay Thompson	4.05	6.8	32	15
Naji Marshall	3.67	7.0	46	30
Dwight Powell	3.23	7.3	30

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 2024-25 regular season, not this game.

Phoenix Suns

Devin Booker recovered 0.8 loose balls per game over his 75 games.
He ranks 18 of 388 in the league.
Jusuf Nurkić recovered 0.8 loose balls per game over his 51 games.
He ranks 26 of 388 in the league.
Kevin Durant contested 6.2 shots per game over his 62 games.
He ranks 47 of 388 in the league.

Dallas Mavericks

Daniel Gafford defended 6.4 shots at the rim per game over his 57 games, and opponents made 14 fewer out of every 100 than usual.
He ranks 3 of 138 in the league.
Luka Dončić deflected 3.4 passes per game over his 50 games.
He ranks 11 of 388 in the league.
Kyrie Irving deflected 3.3 passes per game over his 50 games.
He ranks 13 of 388 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 Dallas Mavericks have won 89 of their 201 games against the Phoenix Suns.

89-112record of the Dallas Mavericks · NBA 1980-81 – 2025-26, regular season and playoffs

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Game context

Attendance

20.277

105.6% of capacity

American Airlines Center · Dallas

Scoring

227

combined points

0.7 below the season average (227.7)

⚖️ The last two minutes

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

13 calls reviewed0 no admitted errors