Brooklyn Nets – Miami Heat · NBA

Win probability changed during the game. · 18 April 2021

BKN107–109MIA

Is it worth watching?

Highly recommended

It was more exciting than 90% of NBA games since 2017

· The win probability swung between the two teams 30 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.

↑ MIA winsBKN wins ↓

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

This is how the game was decided.

Bam Adebayo decided it, the Miami Heat player with the most points (21, with 15 rebounds and 5 assists; +9 with him on the floor); the winner's best plus-minus was Goran Dragic's (+18). 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 Miami Heat 109-107 Brooklyn Nets (April 18, 2021) was hit by Bam Adebayo: a jump shot with 0.0 s left in the fourth quarter, putting the Miami Heat up 109-107. They never trailed again.

The biggest run of Miami Heat 109-107 Brooklyn Nets (April 18, 2021) was a 13-0 run by the Brooklyn Nets in the fourth quarter (from 6:34 to 4:04), from 92-99 to 105-99. The Miami Heat' best was a 9-0 run in the first quarter (from 8:57 to 6:42), from 5-8 to 14-8.

With 30 points, this is Landry Shamet's highest-scoring game of the 2020‑21 regular season.

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Play: Bam Adebayo makes 13-foot step back jumpshot.

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.

It is compared by points with all his official NBA box scores in that scope; it is the same criterion the Analyst uses.

Bam Adebayo 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 3 games he has decided this way in the NBA since the 2002-03 season.

His profile shows the games Adebayo 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.

18 April 2021 · The source is the ESPN play-by-play, play espn:401307659:619; the date is the one on the NBA box score.

Who stood out on defense during the season

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

Brooklyn Nets

Blake Griffin drew 0.48 charges per game over his 46 games.
He ranks 2 of 364 in the league.
Kyrie Irving deflected 2.9 passes per game over his 54 games.
He ranks 14 of 364 in the league.
Kevin Durant defended 4.0 shots at the rim per game over his 35 games, and opponents made 9 fewer out of every 100 than usual.
He ranks 17 of 143 in the league.

Miami Heat

Bam Adebayo contested 9.9 shots per game over his 64 games.
He ranks 19 of 364 in the league.
Trevor Ariza deflected 2.5 passes per game over his 30 games.
He ranks 26 of 364 in the league.
Duncan Robinson drew 0.18 charges per game over his 72 games.
He ranks 27 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 Miami Heat have won 33 of their 54 games against the Brooklyn Nets.

33-21record of the Miami Heat · NBA 2012-13 – 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, 2012-13 – 2025-26. It counts every game between the two teams that the house holds, this one included.

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Game context

Scoring

216

combined points

8.2 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