Denver Nuggets vs Oklahoma City Thunder — Win Probability
FINAL
Denver Nuggets
41-22
103
VS
Oklahoma City Thunder
50-11
127
Model expected score: Denver Nuggets 113.6 – Oklahoma City Thunder 121.3 (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.
DEN
Julian StrawtherOut
OKC
Jaylin WilliamsOut
Thomas SorberOut
Cason WallaceOut
Chet HolmgrenOut
Jalen WilliamsOut
Prediction vs. Result
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PREGAME WIN PROBABILITY
Thunder 75%
ACTUAL RESULT
✓ Thunder won by 24
COMBINED SCORE
230
Margin of Victory — Oklahoma City Thunder (Home)
Pregame odds for every possible outcome, simulated before tipoff -- the highlighted bar is what actually happened.
Lost
29%
Won by 1-3
7%
Won by 4-7
11%
Won by 8-14
19%
Won by 15-21
16%
Won by 21+ ← actual result
17%
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 230.
O/U LINE 210
90% over ✓10% under
O/U LINE 220
78% over ✓22% under
O/U LINE 230 MODEL'S PICK
60% over40% under ✓
O/U LINE 240
39% over61% under ✓
O/U LINE 250
21% over79% under ✓
O/U LINE 260
9% over91% under ✓
Starter Grades
Season-to-date Basketball-Reference stats for each team's starters, minimum 25% of that team's games started.
DEN
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).
Nikola JokićC
29.6
Jamal MurrayPG
21.4
Michael Porter Jr.SF
18.2
Christian BraunSG
15.4
Aaron GordonPF
14.7
OKC
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).