LA Clippers – Golden State Warriors · NBA

Win probability changed during the game. · 23 December 2018

LAC127–129GSW

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 16 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.

↑ GSW winsLAC wins ↓

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

This is how the game was decided.

Stephen Curry decided it, the Golden State Warriors player with the most points (42, with 6 rebounds and 2 assists; +8 with him on the floor); the winner's best plus-minus was Kevin Durant's (+13). 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 Golden State Warriors 129-127 LA Clippers (December 23, 2018) was hit by Stephen Curry: a layup with 0.5 s left in the fourth quarter, putting the Golden State Warriors up 129-127. They never trailed again.

The biggest run of Golden State Warriors 129-127 LA Clippers (December 23, 2018) was a 11-0 run by the Golden State Warriors between the second quarter and the third quarter, from 60-71 to 71-71. The LA Clippers' best was a 7-0 run in the fourth quarter (from 1:18 to 19.6 s), from 120-127 to 127-127.

What were the keys of the last Golden State Warriors vs LA Clippers game?

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Play: Stephen Curry makes 3-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.

Stephen Curry decided this game: his points put his team ahead with 0.5 seconds left in the fourth quarter, and the opponent never led again.

It is one of the 9 games he has decided this way in the NBA since the 2002-03 season.

His profile shows the games Curry 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 December 2018 · The source is the ESPN play-by-play, play espn:401071175:704; 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.

LA Clippers

Montrezl Harrell contested 12.2 shots per game over his 82 games.
He ranks 12 of 380 in the league.
Danilo Gallinari drew 0.18 charges per game over his 67 games.
He ranks 24 of 380 in the league.
Marcin Gortat drew 0.13 charges per game over his 47 games.
He ranks 38 of 380 in the league.

Golden State Warriors

Draymond Green deflected 3.2 passes per game over his 66 games.
He ranks 7 of 380 in the league.
Stephen Curry recovered 1.5 loose balls per game over his 69 games.
He ranks 15 of 380 in the league.
Jonas Jerebko drew 0.14 charges per game over his 71 games.
He ranks 37 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 Golden State Warriors have won 64 of their 130 games against the LA Clippers.

64-66record of the Golden State Warriors · NBA 1996-97 – 2025-26, regular season and playoffs

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Official NBA box scores, regular season and playoffs, 1996-97 – 2025-26. It counts every game between the two teams that the house holds, this one included.

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Game context

Attendance

19.596

108.5% of capacity

Chase Center · San Francisco

Scoring

256

combined points

33.6 above the season average (222.4)