Brooklyn Nets – Oklahoma City Thunder · NBA

Win probability changed during the game. · 23 January 2018

BKN108–109OKC

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It was more exciting than 71% of NBA games since 2017

· It was still open in the final minutes

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.

↑ OKC winsBKN wins ↓

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

This is how the game was decided.

Russell Westbrook decided it, the Oklahoma City Thunder player with the most points (32, with 5 rebounds and 6 assists; -10 with him on the floor); the winner's best plus-minus was Steven Adams'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 Oklahoma City Thunder 109-108 Brooklyn Nets (January 23, 2018) was hit by Russell Westbrook: a layup with 3.0 s left in the fourth quarter, putting the Oklahoma City Thunder up 109-108. They never trailed again.

The biggest run of Oklahoma City Thunder 109-108 Brooklyn Nets (January 23, 2018) was a 7-0 run by the Oklahoma City Thunder in the third quarter (from 7:22 to 5:41), from 56-68 to 63-68. The Brooklyn Nets' best was a 7-0 run in the third quarter (from 2:25 to 1:57), from 75-68 to 82-68.

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Play: Russell Westbrook makes driving layup.

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.

Russell Westbrook 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 8 games he has decided this way in the NBA since the 2002-03 season.

His profile shows the games Westbrook 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.

23 January 2018 · The source is the ESPN play-by-play, play espn:400975443:632; 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.

Brooklyn Nets

Quincy Acy drew 0.31 charges per game over his 70 games.
He ranks 5 of 362 in the league.
Jarrett Allen contested 11.0 shots per game over his 72 games.
He ranks 18 of 362 in the league.
DeMarre Carroll recovered 1.3 loose balls per game over his 73 games.
He ranks 31 of 362 in the league.

Oklahoma City Thunder

Russell Westbrook recovered 2.1 loose balls per game over his 80 games.
He ranks 1 of 362 in the league.
Paul George deflected 3.9 passes per game over his 79 games.
He ranks 2 of 362 in the league.
Steven Adams contested 13.4 shots per game over his 76 games.
He ranks 5 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 Oklahoma City Thunder have won 18 of their 27 games against the Brooklyn Nets.

18-9record of the Oklahoma City Thunder · NBA 2012-13 – 2025-26, regular season and playoffs

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Official NBA box scores, regular season and playoffs, 2012-13 – 2025-26. It counts every game between the two teams that the house holds, this one included.

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Game context

Attendance

18.203

100% of capacity

Paycom Center · Oklahoma City

Scoring

217

combined points

4.3 above the season average (212.7)