San Antonio Spurs – Philadelphia 76ers · NBA

Win probability changed during the game. · 3 August 2020

SAS130–132PHI

Is it worth watching?

Highly recommended

It was more exciting than 87% 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.

↑ PHI winsSAS wins ↓

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

This is how the game was decided.

Joel Embiid decided it, the Philadelphia 76ers player with the most points (27, with 9 rebounds and 5 assists; -3 with him on the floor); the winner's best plus-minus was Al Horford's (+17). 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 132-130 San Antonio Spurs (August 3, 2020) was hit by Shake Milton: a three-pointer with 7.2 s left in the fourth quarter, putting the Philadelphia 76ers up 131-130. They never trailed again.

The biggest run of Philadelphia 76ers 132-130 San Antonio Spurs (August 3, 2020) was a 11-0 run by the Philadelphia 76ers in the first quarter (from 4:35 to 3:22), from 17-22 to 28-22. The San Antonio Spurs' best was a 8-0 run in the fourth quarter (from 3:07 to 1:41), from 119-123 to 127-123.

What were the keys of the last Philadelphia 76ers vs San Antonio Spurs game?

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Play: Shake Milton makes 26-foot three point jumper (Al Horford 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.

Shake Milton decided this game: his points put his team ahead with 7.2 seconds left in the fourth quarter, and the opponent never led again.

It is the only game he has decided this way in the NBA since the 2002-03 season.

His profile shows the games Milton 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.

3 August 2020 · The source is the ESPN play-by-play, play espn:401224729:730; 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.

San Antonio Spurs

Derrick White drew 0.44 charges per game over his 68 games.
He ranks 4 of 352 in the league.
Dejounte Murray deflected 3.1 passes per game over his 66 games.
He ranks 13 of 352 in the league.
Jakob Poeltl defended 5.3 shots at the rim per game over his 65 games, and opponents made 10 fewer out of every 100 than usual.
He ranks 13 of 141 in the league.

Philadelphia 76ers

Ben Simmons recovered 1.7 loose balls per game over his 57 games.
He ranks 2 of 352 in the league.
Joel Embiid recovered 1.6 loose balls per game over his 51 games.
He ranks 3 of 352 in the league.
Al Horford contested 10.1 shots per game over his 67 games.
He ranks 30 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 Philadelphia 76ers have won 24 of their 59 games against the San Antonio Spurs.

24-35record of the Philadelphia 76ers · 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

Scoring

262

combined points

38.4 above the season average (223.6)

⚖️ The last two minutes

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

25 calls reviewed1 errors admitted by the NBA

Foul: Personal · 00:16.3

Tobias Harris → Dejounte Murray

Harris (PHI) makes contact to Murray's (SAS) arm and the illegal contact dislodges the ball into the backcourt.