In the 35,201 regular season NBA games that took place from the start of 1996-1997 through yesterday, no team (winner or loser) ever scored 148+ points on no more than 78 FGA. Boston just did it tonight by shooting 66.7% from the floor, 64.7% from three, and 81.5% from the free throw line. #nbasky
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WILD stat: In the 16,526 regular season games since the start of 2012-2013, this is the ONLY time that a team has won by 20+ points while having 15+ more turnovers than its opponent. #nbasky
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What a WILD back-and-forth game. Since the start of 2012-2013, only two other regular season winners have won the first quarter by 12+, lost quarters two and three by a total of 18+, and then won the fourth by 17+ points. #nbasky
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Yesterday, Phoenix became just the fifth regular season winner since the start of 2012-2013 to log a shooting percentage line as bad or worse in every dimension as 34.19% / 29.09% / 70.83%. Not a pretty win, but a statistically interesting one. #nbasky
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This game marked just the 28th time since the start of 2012-2013 that a regular season winner had FGM and FTM differentials as bad or worse than -1 and -4 (respectively). The Lakers overcame these deficits by putting on a show from distance, including a 3PM margin of +9. #nbasky
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Milwaukee’s key advantage in yesterday’s game against OKC was greater efficiency from the field, including FG% and 3P% margins of +8.97 and +7.14 percentage points (respectively). As a result, the Bucks made 13 more shots and two more threes, easily overcoming the Thunder’s +11 edge in FTM. #nbasky
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Cleveland had a FGA differential of -21 in this game yet won by 25. Since the start of 2012-2013, there have only been 12 other regular season winners with a FGA margin as bad or worse and a margin of victory of 25+ points. #nbasky
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Phoenix achieved FGA and 3PA margins of +25 and +28 in this game (respectively). Since the start of 2012-2013, no regular season winner has obtained or exceeded those margins in a game. However, one loser has: Dallas, in a game against Houston on November 16, 2022. #nbasky
Yeah, but 25 of those points came in his first EIGHT minutes. If you look at his 10 minutes since then, he's only registering 1.2 points per minute (that's less than 60 points per 48min). Talk about a let down😂
Victor Wembanyama currently has 25 points in eight minutes of play in tonight's game against the Lakers. I don't have the exact stats at hand, but I'm betting that's a rare occurrence... #nbasky
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Since the start of 2012-2013, this is just the 9th regular season game in which a team won by 17 or less with FGM and 3PM margins at least as good as +9 and +11 (respectively). Portland did coast at the end, but the average margin of victory with those differentials is nearly 34 points. #nbasky
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One could argue that Miami underachieved slightly in winning this game by just 31 points, since the average margin of victory for regular season winners with FGM and 3PM differentials as good or better than +10 and +9 (respectively) since the start of 2012-2013 is 32.5 points. #nbasky
Fun fact: Since 1996-1997, only 28 of 70,200 regular season winners and losers (two per game) have scored at least 120 points on no more than 36 made field goals. Orlando achieved this largely by going 35-of-43 from the free throw line. #nbasky
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If Golden State hadn’t shot so poorly relative to the Lakers, they would have won this game in a blowout. Since the start of 2012-2013, this is just the fourth regular season contest in which the winning team had FGA and 3PA margins as bad or worse than -23 and -24 (respectively). #nbasky
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Minnesota generated a margin of +15 FGA primarily by having six fewer turnovers and 14 more offensive boards. This is just the 13th regular season game since the start of 2012-2013 in which the loser had turnover and offensive board margins as good or better. #nbasky
It's even worse than you think! Milwaukee's win tonight was just the fifth time since 2012-2013 that a regular season winner had six or fewer free throw attempts and shot no better than 30.23% from three. In other words, they had a losing formula, but got the win anyway.
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The fact that this game was somewhat close is shocking. Since the start of the 2012-2013 NBA season, this is the only regular season contest in which the winner had FGM and 3PM differentials of +8 and +9 or better (respectively) yet won by no more than nine points. #nbasky
Fun fact: Since the start of 2012-2013, this is the only regular season NBA game in which the winner or loser attempted at least 70% of their field goals from distance. 55 of Golden State’s 76 shots (72.37%) were from three.
