Cleveland Cavaliers – Sacramento Kings · NBA

Win probability changed during the game. · 27 March 2021

CLE98–100SAC

Is it worth watching?

Highly recommended

It was more exciting than 93% of NBA games since 2017

· It was still open in the final minutes
· 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 winsCLE wins ↓

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

This is how the game was decided.

De'Aaron Fox decided it, the Sacramento Kings player with the most points (36, with 4 rebounds and 6 assists; +5 with him on the floor); the winner's best plus-minus was Harrison Barnes'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 Sacramento Kings 100-98 Cleveland Cavaliers (March 27, 2021) was hit by Harrison Barnes: a three-pointer with 0.0 s left in the fourth quarter, putting the Sacramento Kings up 100-98. They never trailed again.

The biggest run of Sacramento Kings 100-98 Cleveland Cavaliers (March 27, 2021) was a 11-0 run by the Sacramento Kings in the first quarter (from 6:25 to 3:35), from 13-19 to 24-19. The Cleveland Cavaliers' best was a 7-0 run between the first quarter and the second quarter, from 27-31 to 34-31.

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Play: Harrison Barnes makes 27-foot three point shot (De'Aaron Fox 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.

Harrison Barnes 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 Barnes 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.

27 March 2021 · The source is the ESPN play-by-play, play espn:401307491:634; the date is the one on the NBA box score.

Rotations · who was on the floor

Closing lineup · CLE

Sexton · Nance · Garland · Thomas · Wade

Closing lineup · SAC

Fox · Barnes · Holmes · Haliburton · Wright

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CLE

Collin Sexton

40′ · -4

Larry Nance Jr.

34′ · -8

Isaac Okoro

33′ · -10

Darius Garland

33′ · -6

Brodric Thomas

31′ · +8

Dean Wade

31′ · -2

Damyean Dotson

23′ · +8

Lamar Stevens

15′ · +4

SAC

De'Aaron Fox

38′ · +5

Harrison Barnes

36′ · +13

Richaun Holmes

34′ · -3

Tyrese Haliburton

33′ · -1

Buddy Hield

32′ · +9

Chimezie Metu

14′ · +8

Delon Wright

23′ · -2

Terence Davis

18′ · -8

Maurice Harkless

12′ · -11

Each bar is a stint on the floor (source: NBA). The number is minutes played and the team's +/− with him on the court. CLE and SAC.

These lineups played the most minutes together.

Cleveland Cavaliers

Dotson, Sexton, Wade, Stevens, and Thomas played 14.3 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 6 points.
Nance, Sexton, Garland, Okoro, and Thomas played 13.5 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 2 points.
Nance, Sexton, Garland, Wade, and Okoro played 8.7 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 6 points.

Sacramento Kings

Holmes, Hield, Fox, Haliburton, and Barnes played 19.6 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 1 point.
Wright, Holmes, Fox, Davis, and Harkless played 5.3 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 3 points.
Wright, Metu, Davis, Haliburton, and Harkless played 3.8 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 6 points.

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Cleveland Cavaliers

Nance, Dotson, Garland, Wade, and Okoro played 4.7 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 1 point.
Nance, Dotson, Sexton, Garland, and Okoro played 3.3 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 2 points.
Nance, Garland, Wade, Okoro, and Thomas played 2.4 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 3 points.

Sacramento Kings

Wright, Hield, Fox, Metu, and Barnes played 3.7 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 6 points.
Hield, Fox, Metu, Haliburton, and Barnes played 3.5 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 1 point.
Wright, Holmes, Hield, Fox, and Barnes played 3.2 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 2 points.
Wright, Holmes, Davis, Haliburton, and Harkless played 2.5 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 2 points.
Wright, Holmes, Fox, Davis, and Barnes played 2.0 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 3 points.
Wright, Metu, Davis, Haliburton, and Barnes played 1.6 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 2 points.
Holmes, Hield, Davis, Haliburton, and Barnes played 1.1 minutes together.
Their team tied that stretch.

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The lineups come from the NBA's official rotation: who was on the floor and when. Each lineup's plus-minus is worked out from every player's stints and is only shown when they all add up with each other and with the final score.

Collin Sexton covered 4.73 km, more than anyone in the game.

Collin Sexton touched the ball 87 times, a game high.
Richaun Holmes defended 12 shots at the rim, a game high, and opponents made 6.
Richaun Holmes had 25 rebound chances, a game high.

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Cleveland Cavaliers

Player	km	km/h	Touches	Passes
Collin Sexton	4.73	6.7	87	57
Darius Garland	4.18	7.0	65	43
Isaac Okoro	4.14	7.0	29	20
Larry Nance Jr.	3.94	6.5	76	57
Dean Wade	3.81	6.8	50	41
Brodric Thomas	3.81	6.9	37	27
Damyean Dotson	2.86	7.1	33	25
Lamar Stevens	1.74	6.8	14	10

Sacramento Kings

Player	km	km/h	Touches	Passes
Harrison Barnes	4.68	7.1	56	38
De'Aaron Fox	4.39	6.4	83	53
Tyrese Haliburton	4.02	6.7	51	37
Buddy Hield	3.81	6.6	35	25
Richaun Holmes	3.78	6.2	42

The figures come from the NBA's optical tracking (NBA.com) for this game; speed is each player's average while on the floor.

Who stood out on defense during the season

These figures cover the whole 2020-21 regular season, not this game.

Cleveland Cavaliers

Collin Sexton recovered 1.1 loose balls per game over his 59 games.
He ranks 6 of 364 in the league.
Larry Nance Jr. deflected 3.4 passes per game over his 35 games.
He ranks 6 of 364 in the league.
Isaac Okoro recovered 0.8 loose balls per game over his 67 games.
He ranks 65 of 364 in the league.

Sacramento Kings

Delon Wright deflected 3.1 passes per game over his 61 games.
He ranks 11 of 364 in the league.
De'Aaron Fox deflected 2.8 passes per game over his 58 games.
He ranks 20 of 364 in the league.
Richaun Holmes contested 9.8 shots per game over his 61 games.
He ranks 21 of 364 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 33 of their 77 games against the Cleveland Cavaliers.

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Official NBA box scores, regular season and playoffs, 1985-86 – 2025-26. It counts every game between the two teams that the house holds, this one included.

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Game context

Scoring

198

combined points

26.2 below the season average (224.2)

⚖️ The last two minutes

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

10 calls reviewed0 no admitted errors