Oklahoma City Thunder – Philadelphia 76ers · NBA

Win probability changed during the game. · 19 January 2019

OKC117–115PHI

Is it worth watching?

Highly recommended

It was more exciting than 97% of NBA games since 2017

· It was still open in the final minutes
· The win probability swung between the two teams 27 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.

↑ PHI winsOKC wins ↓

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

This is how the game was decided.

Paul George decided it, the Oklahoma City Thunder player with the most points (31, with 6 rebounds and 5 assists; +17 with him on the floor); the winner's best plus-minus was Jerami Grant's (+25). 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 Philadelphia 76ers 115-117 Oklahoma City Thunder (January 19, 2019) was hit by Paul George: a three-pointer with 5.1 s left in the fourth quarter, putting the Oklahoma City Thunder up 116-115. They never trailed again.

The biggest run of Philadelphia 76ers 115-117 Oklahoma City Thunder (January 19, 2019) was a 11-0 run by the Philadelphia 76ers in the fourth quarter (from 7:18 to 5:47), from 86-95 to 97-95. The Oklahoma City Thunder' best was a 8-0 run in the fourth quarter (from 5:08 to 3:30), from 97-99 to 105-99.

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Play: Paul George makes 26-foot three point jumper (Terrance Ferguson assists).

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.

Paul George decided this game: his points put his team ahead with 5.1 seconds left in the fourth quarter, and the opponent never led again.

It is one of the 6 games he has decided this way in the NBA since the 2002-03 season.

His profile shows the games George 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.

19 January 2019 · The source is the ESPN play-by-play, play espn:401071354:702; 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.

Oklahoma City Thunder

Paul George deflected 3.8 passes per game over his 77 games.
He ranks 1 of 380 in the league.
Russell Westbrook recovered 1.8 loose balls per game over his 73 games.
He ranks 2 of 380 in the league.
Steven Adams contested 14.2 shots per game over his 80 games.
He ranks 5 of 380 in the league.

Philadelphia 76ers

Ben Simmons recovered 1.7 loose balls per game over his 78 games.
He ranks 5 of 380 in the league.
Joel Embiid defended 9.0 shots at the rim per game over his 61 games, and opponents made 11 fewer out of every 100 than usual.
He ranks 3 of 129 in the league.
Jimmy Butler III deflected 3.1 passes per game over his 65 games.
He ranks 11 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 Philadelphia 76ers have won 10 of their 35 games against the Oklahoma City Thunder.

10-25record of the Philadelphia 76ers · NBA 2008-09 – 2025-26, regular season and playoffs

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Official NBA box scores, regular season and playoffs, 2008-09 – 2025-26. It counts every game between the two teams that the house holds, this one included.

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Game context

Attendance

20.646

103.2% of capacity

Xfinity Mobile Arena · Philadelphia

Scoring

232

combined points

9.6 above the season average (222.4)