Phoenix Suns – San Antonio Spurs · NBA

Win probability changed during the game. · 29 January 2019

PHX124–126SAS

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It was more exciting than 60% 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.

↑ SAS winsPHX wins ↓

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

This is how the game was decided.

LaMarcus Aldridge decided it, the San Antonio Spurs player with the most points (29, with 14 rebounds and 4 assists; -1 with him on the floor); the winner's best plus-minus was Patty Mills'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 San Antonio Spurs 126-124 Phoenix Suns (January 29, 2019) was hit by Rudy Gay: a jump shot with 0.0 s left in the fourth quarter, putting the San Antonio Spurs up 126-124. They never trailed again.

The biggest run of San Antonio Spurs 126-124 Phoenix Suns (January 29, 2019) was a 11-0 run by the Phoenix Suns between the third quarter and the fourth quarter, from 84-96 to 95-96. The San Antonio Spurs' best was a 6-0 run in the second quarter (from 10:02 to 9:03), from 38-38 to 44-38.

What were the keys of the last San Antonio Spurs vs Phoenix Suns game?

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Play: Rudy Gay makes 21-foot 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.

Rudy Gay decided this game: his points put his team ahead at the buzzer of 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 Gay 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.

29 January 2019 · The source is the ESPN play-by-play, play espn:401071427:654; 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.

Phoenix Suns

Kelly Oubre Jr. deflected 3.0 passes per game over his 69 games.
He ranks 12 of 380 in the league.
Dragan Bender defended 5.2 shots at the rim per game over his 44 games, and opponents made 11 fewer out of every 100 than usual.
He ranks 5 of 129 in the league.
Mikal Bridges deflected 2.8 passes per game over his 81 games.
He ranks 19 of 380 in the league.

San Antonio Spurs

LaMarcus Aldridge contested 13.6 shots per game over his 81 games.
He ranks 7 of 380 in the league.
Derrick White drew 0.13 charges per game over his 67 games.
He ranks 38 of 380 in the league.
Patty Mills drew 0.11 charges per game over his 82 games.
He ranks 46 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 San Antonio Spurs have won 85 of their 145 games against the Phoenix Suns.

85-60record of the San Antonio Spurs · 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

18.121

98.7% of capacity

Frost Bank Center · San Antonio

Scoring

250

combined points

27.6 above the season average (222.4)

⚖️ The last two minutes

Official NBA L2M report: every call in the endgame, reviewed by the league.

15 calls reviewed2 errors admitted by the NBA

Foul: Personal · 00:22.8

Devin Booker → Marco Belinelli

RLS shows Booker (PHX) makes contact to Belinelli's (SAS) arm, affecting his ability to maintain control of the ball.

Foul: Loose Ball · 01:33.1

LaMarcus Aldridge → Kelly Oubre

Aldridge (SAS) makes contact with Oubre Jr.'s (PHX) head during rebounding that affects his ability to retrieve the ball.