Model expected score: Sacramento Kings 113.3 – LA Clippers 113.8 (no market line posted for this game yet -- see Margin/Totals below)
Injury Report
Live ESPN injury status for both teams, polled fresh each run.
SAC
Maxime RaynaudOut
Keegan MurrayDay-To-Day
Domantas SabonisDay-To-Day
Ben SimmonsOut
LAC
Yanic Konan NiederhauserOut
Brandon IngramOut
Cam ChristieDay-To-Day
Bradley BealOut
Jordan MillerOut
Prediction vs. Result
We keep every prediction permanently so we can always show our work.
PREGAME WIN PROBABILITY
Clippers 51%
ACTUAL RESULT
✓ Clippers won by 16
COMBINED SCORE
192
Margin of Victory — LA Clippers (Home)
Pregame odds for every possible outcome, simulated before tipoff -- the highlighted bar is what actually happened.
Lost
49%
Won by 1-3
8%
Won by 4-7
11%
Won by 8-14
15%
Won by 15-21 ← actual result
10%
Won by 21+
7%
Total Score — Over / Under
Combined score across 100,000 simulated versions of this game, against six fixed lines (no market total posted for this game yet -- the highlighted line is this model's own pick, not a sportsbook number). The real combined score was 192.
O/U LINE 210
82% over18% under ✓
O/U LINE 220
65% over35% under ✓
O/U LINE 230 MODEL'S PICK
44% over56% under ✓
O/U LINE 240
25% over75% under ✓
O/U LINE 250
11% over89% under ✓
O/U LINE 260
4% over96% under ✓
Starter Grades
Season-to-date Basketball-Reference stats for each team's starters, minimum 25% of that team's games started.
SAC
Points Per GamePoints scored per game.
Player Efficiency RatingPlayer Efficiency Rating (John Hollinger) -- a per-minute rating summing a player's positive contributions and subtracting the negative, league-adjusted so 15.0 = average.
Win Shares Per 48 MinutesAn estimate of the number of wins contributed by a player per 48 minutes (league average is approximately .100).
De'Aaron FoxPG
25.0
Zach LaVineSG
22.4
DeMar DeRozanSF
22.2
Domantas SabonisC
19.1
Malik MonkSG
17.2
LAC
Points Per GamePoints scored per game.
Player Efficiency RatingPlayer Efficiency Rating (John Hollinger) -- a per-minute rating summing a player's positive contributions and subtracting the negative, league-adjusted so 15.0 = average.
Win Shares Per 48 MinutesAn estimate of the number of wins contributed by a player per 48 minutes (league average is approximately .100).