Sacramento Kings – LA Clippers · NBA

Win probability changed during the game. · 9 March 2025

SAC110–111LAC

Is it worth watching?

Highly recommended

It was more exciting than 94% of NBA games since 2017

· It was still open in the final minutes
· The win probability swung between the two teams 33 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.

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

This is how the game was decided.

James Harden decided it, the LA Clippers player with the most points (29, with 9 rebounds and 11 assists; -5 with him on the floor); the winner's best plus-minus was Derrick Jones Jr.'s (+8). 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 LA Clippers 111-110 Sacramento Kings (March 9, 2025) was hit by Kawhi Leonard: a hook shot with 0.0 s left in overtime, putting the LA Clippers up 111-110. They never trailed again.

The biggest run of LA Clippers 111-110 Sacramento Kings (March 9, 2025) was a 10-0 run by the Sacramento Kings in the third quarter (from 8:24 to 5:10), from 54-63 to 64-63. The LA Clippers' best was a 8-0 run between the fourth quarter and overtime, from 90-97 to 98-97.

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Play: Kawhi Leonard makes two point 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.

Kawhi Leonard decided this game: his points put his team ahead at the buzzer of overtime 1, and the opponent never led again.

It is one of the 11 games he has decided this way in the NBA since the 2002-03 season.

His profile shows the games Leonard 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.

9 March 2025 · The source is the ESPN play-by-play, play espn:401705493:652; the date is the one on the NBA box score.

Rotations · who was on the floor

Closing lineup · SAC

Murray · LaVine · Valanciunas · Ellis · LaRavia

Closing lineup · LAC

Harden · Zubac · Leonard · Jones · Bogdanovic

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SAC

Keegan Murray

47′ · -7

Zach LaVine

44′ · +5

DeMar DeRozan

44′ · -1

Jonas Valanciunas

42′ · 0

Keon Ellis

31′ · +2

Jake LaRavia

31′ · -3

Trey Lyles

11′ · -1

Markelle Fultz

2′ · +4

Devin Carter

12′ · -4

LAC

James Harden

44′ · -5

Ivica Zubac

44′ · +3

Kawhi Leonard

40′ · -3

Nicolas Batum

28′ · +2

Kris Dunn

27′ · +4

Derrick Jones Jr.

28′ · +8

Bogdan Bogdanovic

23′ · -3

Amir Coffey

27′ · -1

Kobe Brown

4′ · 0

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

These lineups played the most minutes together.

Sacramento Kings

Murray, Ellis, DeRozan, Valanciunas, and LaVine played 22.4 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 2 points.
Murray, LaRavia, DeRozan, Valanciunas, and LaVine played 12.9 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 3 points.
Lyles, Murray, LaRavia, Carter, and DeRozan played 5.3 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 3 points.

LA Clippers

Dunn, Zubac, Batum, Harden, and Leonard played 18.0 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 1 point.
Zubac, Jones, Coffey, Harden, and Bogdanovic played 4.3 minutes together.
Their team tied that stretch.
Zubac, Jones, Coffey, Harden, and Leonard played 4.0 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 4 points.

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Sacramento Kings

Murray, LaRavia, Carter, DeRozan, and Valanciunas played 3.7 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 3 points.
Lyles, Fultz, Ellis, LaRavia, and LaVine played 2.3 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 4 points.
Lyles, Murray, Ellis, LaRavia, and LaVine played 2.3 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 2 points.
Ellis, LaRavia, Carter, Valanciunas, and LaVine played 2.1 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 2 points.
Lyles, Ellis, LaRavia, Carter, and LaVine played 1.3 minutes together.
Their team tied that stretch.

LA Clippers

Zubac, Jones, Coffey, Leonard, and Bogdanovic played 3.3 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 1 point.
Jones, Coffey, Brown, Leonard, and Bogdanovic played 2.8 minutes together.
Their team tied that stretch.
Zubac, Coffey, Harden, Leonard, and Bogdanovic played 2.4 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 5 points.
Jones, Coffey, Batum, Harden, and Bogdanovic played 2.3 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 4 points.
Zubac, Jones, Coffey, Batum, and Harden played 2.2 minutes together.
Their team tied that stretch.
Zubac, Jones, Batum, Harden, and Leonard played 2.1 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 2 points.
Dunn, Zubac, Jones, Batum, and Harden played 1.9 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 7 points.
Dunn, Zubac, Harden, Leonard, and Bogdanovic played 1.8 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 3 points.
Dunn, Zubac, Coffey, Leonard, and Bogdanovic played 1.7 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 4 points.
Dunn, Jones, Coffey, Leonard, and Bogdanovic played 1.6 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 1 point.
Jones, Coffey, Brown, Harden, and Bogdanovic played 1.3 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.

Keegan Murray covered 5.29 km, more than anyone in the game.

James Harden touched the ball 86 times, a game high.
Jonas Valanciunas made 69 passes, a game high.
Ivica Zubac defended 8 shots at the rim, a game high, and opponents made 7.
Jonas Valanciunas had 27 rebound chances, a game high.

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Sacramento Kings

Player	km	km/h	Touches	Passes
Keegan Murray	5.29	6.9	38	30
Zach LaVine	4.71	6.7	69	42
DeMar DeRozan	4.52	6.2	81	54
Jonas Valanciunas	4.46	6.6	76	69
Jake LaRavia	3.51	7.1	27	28
Keon Ellis	3.38	6.8	43	35
Devin Carter	1.48	7.3	18	11
Trey Lyles	1.24	6.9	23	15
Markelle Fultz	0.24	7.5	4	4

LA Clippers

Player	km	km/h	Touches	Passes
Ivica Zubac	4.49	6.3	71	53
Kawhi Leonard	4.39	6.7	60	34
James Harden	3.94	5.6	86	65
Kris Dunn	3.27	7.3	36	33
Nicolas Batum	3.07	6.8	23	22

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 2024-25 regular season, not this game.

Sacramento Kings

Keon Ellis deflected 3.6 passes per game over his 78 games.
He ranks 5 of 388 in the league.
Keegan Murray drew 0.16 charges per game over his 76 games.
He ranks 16 of 388 in the league.
Trey Lyles drew 0.14 charges per game over his 69 games.
He ranks 23 of 388 in the league.

LA Clippers

Ivica Zubac contested 10.0 shots per game over his 80 games.
He ranks 7 of 388 in the league.
Kris Dunn deflected 3.2 passes per game over his 74 games.
He ranks 15 of 388 in the league.
Kawhi Leonard deflected 3.1 passes per game over his 37 games.
He ranks 16 of 388 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 LA Clippers have won 80 of their 170 games against the Sacramento Kings.

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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

Attendance

17.927

99.6% of capacity

Intuit Dome · Inglewood

Scoring

221

combined points

6.7 below the season average (227.7)

⚖️ The last two minutes

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

24 calls reviewed0 no admitted errors