NBA

Week 16 Recap

Feb 2 - 8. The week's biggest results, played back. Ranks are NovaModel's going into the week.

NBA

Week 16

Feb 2 - 8 · the week in review

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Every game in the reel

  1. Upset#30 Washington Wizards 126, #2 Detroit Pistons 117Will Riley, 20 pts
  2. Upset#20 Charlotte Hornets 109, #4 Houston Rockets 99Kon Knueppel, 24 pts
  3. Upset#26 New Orleans Pelicans 119, #8 Minnesota Timberwolves 115Saddiq Bey, 30 pts
  4. Upset#22 Memphis Grizzlies 137, #8 Minnesota Timberwolves 128Ty Jerome, 19 pts
  5. Upset#17 LA Clippers 115, #8 Minnesota Timberwolves 96Kawhi Leonard, 41 pts
  6. Top-10 clash#2 Detroit Pistons 124, #7 Denver Nuggets 121Cade Cunningham, 29 pts
  7. #1 in action#1 Oklahoma City Thunder 128, #16 Orlando Magic 92Isaiah Joe, 22 pts
  8. #1 goes down#3 San Antonio Spurs 116, #1 Oklahoma City Thunder 106Keldon Johnson, 25 pts

How games are picked

Every game is judged by NovaModel's rankings from before it was played, so nothing is graded with hindsight. A game makes the reel when a top-10 team loses to a team ranked well below it (an upset), when both teams are in the top 10, when the #1 team plays, or when a top-10 team's game is decided by three points or fewer. The biggest upsets come first. No betting lines or win probabilities are used.