New Orleans Pelicans – Sacramento Kings · NBA

Win probability changed during the game. · 4 January 2020

NOP117–115SAC

Is it worth watching?

Highly recommended

It was more exciting than 89% of NBA games since 2017

· The win probability swung between the two teams 29 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.

↑ SAC winsNOP wins ↓

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

This is how the game was decided.

Lonzo Ball decided it, the New Orleans Pelicans player with the most points (24, with 6 rebounds and 10 assists; +21 with him on the floor); the winner's best plus-minus was Derrick Favors'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 Sacramento Kings 115-117 New Orleans Pelicans (January 4, 2020) was hit by JJ Redick: a layup with 1.1 s left in the fourth quarter, putting the New Orleans Pelicans up 117-115. They never trailed again.

The biggest run of Sacramento Kings 115-117 New Orleans Pelicans (January 4, 2020) was a 13-0 run by the New Orleans Pelicans in the first quarter (from 8:23 to 5:18), from 9-8 to 22-8. The Sacramento Kings' best was a 12-0 run in the first quarter (from 4:36 to 2:18), from 10-23 to 22-23.

What were the keys of the last Sacramento Kings vs New Orleans Pelicans game?

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Play: JJ Redick makes 2-foot layup (Lonzo Ball 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.

JJ Redick decided this game: his points put his team ahead with 1.1 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 Redick 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.

4 January 2020 · The source is the ESPN play-by-play, play espn:401161175:765; the date is the one on the NBA box score.

Who stood out on defense during the season

These figures cover the whole 2019-20 regular season, not this game.

New Orleans Pelicans

Jrue Holiday deflected 4.0 passes per game over his 61 games.
He ranks 2 of 352 in the league.
JJ Redick drew 0.24 charges per game over his 59 games.
He ranks 10 of 352 in the league.
Lonzo Ball deflected 3.0 passes per game over his 63 games.
He ranks 17 of 352 in the league.

Sacramento Kings

De'Aaron Fox deflected 2.9 passes per game over his 51 games.
He ranks 18 of 352 in the league.
Trevor Ariza deflected 2.8 passes per game over his 53 games.
He ranks 24 of 352 in the league.
Richaun Holmes contested 10.0 shots per game over his 44 games.
He ranks 31 of 352 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 Sacramento Kings have won 20 of their 48 games against the New Orleans Pelicans.

20-28record of the Sacramento Kings · NBA 2013-14 – 2025-26, regular season and playoffs

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See the full head-to-head in the Analyst

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Official NBA box scores, regular season and playoffs, 2013-14 – 2025-26. It counts every game between the two teams that the house holds, this one included.

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Game context

Attendance

16.808

95.4% of capacity

Golden 1 Center · Sacramento

Scoring

232

combined points

8.4 above the season average (223.6)

⚖️ The last two minutes

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

23 calls reviewed2 errors admitted by the NBA

Foul: Offensive · 00:04.1

Derrick Favors → Trevor Ariza

Favors (NOP) moves into Ariza (SAC) and delivers contact on his screen that dislodges Ariza from his legal guarding position.

Foul: Loose Ball · 00:58.4

Jrue Holiday → Richaun Holmes

As the shot is in the air, Holiday (NOP) pushes Hield (SAC) in the back and the contact dislodges him into Fox (SAC), affecting his ability to land safely from his jump shot attempt.