Brooklyn Nets – Denver Nuggets · NBA

Win probability changed during the game. · 9 November 2018

BKN112–110DEN

Is it worth watching?

Highly recommended

It was more exciting than 99% of NBA games since 2017

· It was still open in the final minutes
· The win probability swung between the two teams 58 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.

↑ DEN winsBKN wins ↓

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

This is how the game was decided.

D'Angelo Russell decided it, the Brooklyn Nets player with the most points (23, with 4 rebounds and 5 assists; +3 with him on the floor); the winner's best plus-minus was Jared Dudley's (+9). 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 Denver Nuggets 110-112 Brooklyn Nets (November 9, 2018) was hit by Caris LeVert: a jump shot with 0.3 s left in the fourth quarter, putting the Brooklyn Nets up 112-110. They never trailed again.

The biggest run of Denver Nuggets 110-112 Brooklyn Nets (November 9, 2018) was a 7-0 run by the Denver Nuggets in the second quarter (from 2:33 to 1:03), from 40-51 to 47-51. The Brooklyn Nets' best was a 6-0 run in the first quarter (from 11:47 to 10:54), from 0-0 to 6-0.

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Play: Caris LeVert makes pullup jump 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.

Caris LeVert decided this game: his points put his team ahead with 0.3 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 LeVert 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.

9 November 2018 · The source is the ESPN play-by-play, play espn:401070852:715; the date is the one on the NBA box score.

Who stood out on defense during the season

These figures cover the whole 2018-19 regular season, not this game.

Brooklyn Nets

Jarrett Allen contested 15.9 shots per game over his 79 games.
He ranks 2 of 380 in the league.
Jared Dudley drew 0.12 charges per game over his 58 games.
He ranks 44 of 380 in the league.
D'Angelo Russell deflected 2.2 passes per game over his 81 games.
He ranks 47 of 380 in the league.

Denver Nuggets

Nikola Jokić contested 9.9 shots per game over his 80 games.
He ranks 30 of 380 in the league.
Jamal Murray recovered 1.3 loose balls per game over his 75 games.
He ranks 43 of 380 in the league.
Gary Harris recovered 1.3 loose balls per game over his 57 games.
He ranks 47 of 380 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 Denver Nuggets have won 14 of their 28 games against the Brooklyn Nets.

14-14record of the Denver Nuggets · 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

19.520

100% of capacity

Ball Arena · Denver

Scoring

222

combined points

0.4 below the season average (222.4)