NBA

Week 9 Recap

Dec 15 - 21. The week's biggest results, played back. Ranks are NovaModel's going into the week.

NBA

Week 9

Dec 15 - 21 · the week in review

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Every game in the reel

  1. Upset#27 Sacramento Kings 125, #2 Houston Rockets 124DeMar DeRozan, 27 pts
  2. Upset#20 Dallas Mavericks 116, #3 Detroit Pistons 114Cooper Flagg, 23 pts
  3. Upset#28 New Orleans Pelicans 133, #2 Houston Rockets 128Saddiq Bey, 29 pts
  4. Upset#10 Minnesota Timberwolves 112, #1 Oklahoma City Thunder 107Anthony Edwards, 26 pts
  5. Upset#16 Philadelphia 76ers 116, #4 New York Knicks 107Tyrese Maxey, 30 pts
  6. Upset#25 LA Clippers 103, #7 Los Angeles Lakers 88Kawhi Leonard, 32 pts
  7. Upset#18 Memphis Grizzlies 116, #10 Minnesota Timberwolves 110Jaylen Wells, 17 pts
  8. Top-10 clash#6 Denver Nuggets 128, #2 Houston Rockets 125Nikola Jokic, 39 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.