LA Clippers – Sacramento Kings · NBA

Win probability changed during the game. · 25 November 2017

LAC97–95SAC

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It was more exciting than 58% of NBA games since 2017

· The win probability swung between the two teams 19 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.

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

This is how the game was decided.

Blake Griffin decided it, the LA Clippers player with the most points (33, with 4 rebounds and 5 assists; +7 with him on the floor); the winner's best plus-minus was Montrezl Harrell's (+15). 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 Sacramento Kings 95-97 LA Clippers (November 25, 2017) was hit by Blake Griffin: a jump shot with 3.0 s left in the fourth quarter, putting the LA Clippers up 97-95. They never trailed again.

The biggest run of Sacramento Kings 95-97 LA Clippers (November 25, 2017) was a 17-0 run by the LA Clippers in the third quarter (from 11:02 to 5:26), from 47-65 to 64-65. The Sacramento Kings' best was a 13-0 run between the second quarter and the third quarter, from 52-47 to 65-47.

With 33 points, this is Blake Griffin's highest-scoring game of the 2017‑18 regular season.

With 27 points, this is Buddy Hield's highest-scoring game of the 2017‑18 regular season.

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Play: Blake Griffin makes 10-foot two point shot.

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.

Blake Griffin decided this game: his points put his team ahead with 3 seconds left in the fourth quarter, and the opponent never led again.

It is one of the 2 games he has decided this way in the NBA since the 2002-03 season.

His profile shows the games Griffin 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.

25 November 2017 · The source is the ESPN play-by-play, play espn:400975037:609; the date is the one on the NBA box score.

Who stood out on defense during the season

These figures cover the whole 2017-18 regular season, not this game.

LA Clippers

Willie Reed drew 0.28 charges per game over his 40 games.
He ranks 7 of 362 in the league.
Blake Griffin drew 0.21 charges per game over his 58 games.
He ranks 16 of 362 in the league.
Montrezl Harrell drew 0.14 charges per game over his 76 games.
He ranks 42 of 362 in the league.

Sacramento Kings

Willie Cauley-Stein contested 9.3 shots per game over his 73 games.
He ranks 37 of 362 in the league.
Bogdan Bogdanović deflected 2.1 passes per game over his 78 games.
He ranks 50 of 362 in the league.
Buddy Hield recovered 1.2 loose balls per game over his 80 games.
He ranks 57 of 362 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 Sacramento Kings have won 90 of their 170 games against the LA Clippers.

90-80record of the Sacramento Kings · 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

17.583

99.8% of capacity

Golden 1 Center · Sacramento

Scoring

192

combined points

20.7 below the season average (212.7)