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Latest play: Game End. Every play as it lands, pushed on the live channel — the ribbon under the score says which transport is carrying this page.
Tonight’s room
Opening this game — the score, the clock and the win probability land together.
FINAL · HOU AT LAL
Our win probability · Lakers came back from a 49% chance at Q3 10:53 · the favourite changed 4 times
Final · April 18, 2026
Top scorers
A. Sengun
19pts · 6 of 19
L. Kennard
27pts · 9 of 13
By quarter
Our reading, one per play
Lakers won it by 9. The favourite changed 4 times.
14points
Biggest swing · Lakers
4
Times the favourite changed
Even money is the hairline. This reading is ours, and it looks at three things: the margin, the clock, and who has the ball. It does not know who is playing, who is hurt or how good either side is, which is why it starts at the tip and why it can disagree with a number that does. The ball is carried forward from the plays that state a change of possession; every other play holds the last known value.
574 readings, one a play from the tip to the horn.
Runs · 3
Last playQ4 0:00 · HOU 98–LAL 107 · End, game · held
Scoring plays · 109
One pin a scoring play — 109 scoring plays on 94 scoring trips as the game clock groups them, because a basket and the free throw it earned are two plays and one trip. The game's own trip record is not on this read, so the trip number is the clock's grouping and can run high.
LAL 40 baskets, 107 pts · HOU 35 baskets, 98 pts
1 play moved it 10 points or more — in the third quarter.
Our win probability, in points: each bar points toward the club the play helped and runs as long as the play moved it against the game’s largest move (13.7). A tap puts the river’s head on it.
Runs · the game’s tide
3 runs
The Lakers led for 44 minutes and by as many as 16 — their biggest run was 15–5 in the first quarter.
— The trips were not read for this game, so there is no pace to state.
15–5
8–0
13–3The game in chapters · points
The Lakers won the third quarter 25–18 — the widest chapter of the game.
HOU left, LAL right — the trips were not read, so the points stand without a rate.
Reading the outside line.
The live projection retired at the horn, and no pregame projection is kept for a game. Reading the league's zone rates to price the shots.
Rockets 98, Lakers 107, final.
