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LA Clippers at Denver Nuggets

FinalLAC 101 – DEN 120Page updated 20:45 UTC

Original picks and recorded results

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Saved picks

0Posted odds · decimal

Check minutes · 7 availability alerts

Out Beal · right knee injury management (knee) · LAC

Out Ingram · right heel surgery · LAC

Out Christie · right ankle sprain (ankle) · LAC

Out Miller · left rotator cuff surgery · LAC

Out Martinelli · two-way · LAC

Out Niederhäuser · right lisfranc surgery · LAC

Out Strawther · left knee sprain (knee) · DEN

No playing-time estimates are available.

We had no picks in this game.

How to read the prices

Over means more than the posted line; Under means fewer. Decimal odds show the total return per unit staked, including the stake. Row order follows lineup status and available prices, not a confidence ranking.

Getting a better price than most bookmakers offer is the only thing that made money in our past tests, measured on WNBA bets; NBA has not been measured yet. Player rates are context, not tips.

Availability to check

Out Beal · right knee injury management (knee) · LAC

Out Ingram · right heel surgery · LAC

Out Christie · right ankle sprain (ankle) · LAC

Out Miller · left rotator cuff surgery · LAC

Out Martinelli · two-way · LAC

Out Niederhäuser · right lisfranc surgery · LAC

Out Strawther · left knee sprain (knee) · DEN

Players and minutes6 players in the available roster

Minutes are source estimates, not guaranteed playing time. Historical hit rates describe past games; they are not a forecast.

LA Clippers

Derrick Jones Jr. · minutes unknown

points 5.5 → 12 actual

Kris Dunn · minutes unknown

points 3.5 → 3 actual

Denver Nuggets

Aaron Gordon · minutes unknown

points + rebounds + assists 23.5 → 31 actual

Christian Braun · minutes unknown

points 11.5 → 21 actual

Jamal Murray · minutes unknown

points 21.5 → 16 actual

Nikola Jokić · minutes unknown

points 28.5 → 16 actual

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Game odds

DEN expected to win by about 1.5 · both teams together expected to score about 207.5 points · odds to win: LAC 2.12, DEN 1.81

Game odds from Pinnacle (the bookmaker we use as the reference) · observed Sat 23:30 UTC

What could go wrong

updated 20:45 UTC

Who is out

Out Beal · right knee injury management (knee) · LAC

Out Ingram · right heel surgery · LAC

Out Christie · right ankle sprain (ankle) · LAC

Out Miller · left rotator cuff surgery · LAC

Out Martinelli · two-way · LAC

Out Niederhäuser · right lisfranc surgery · LAC

Out Strawther · left knee sprain (knee) · DEN

Lineup changes unavailable right now.

Lineups

Expected starting lineup, not yet confirmed

Playing time

No playing-time estimates are available.

Rest

Both teams had at least two days between their last game and this one.

Bookmakers

The reference bookmaker, Pinnacle, offers 0 of the 226 lines; the rest rely on other bookmakers.

Every pick is priced by at least 2 bookmakers.

When a player is out, that player's lines are removed: in our past results this helped. Guessing which teammates benefit was also tested and lost money, so nothing else on this page is adjusted for it.

Your reads and game resultsPredictions closed at game start

What happened

In 3 of 6 cases where a player's past record disagreed with the bookmakers' price, the past record was right in this game. One game proves nothing.

FinalWe had no picks in this game · every posted line is still scored below

6 other players with a posted line

Derrick Jones Jr. · points 5.5 → 12 · 6.5 above the line · played 16.6 min · no final price

Christian Braun · points 11.5 → 21 · 9.5 above the line · played 38.2 min · no final price

Nikola Jokić · points 28.5 → 16 · 12.5 below the line · played 32.5 min · no final price

Aaron Gordon · points + rebounds + assists 23.5 → 31 · 7.5 above the line · played 35.7 min · no final price

Jamal Murray · points 21.5 → 16 · 5.5 below the line · played 41.5 min · no final price

Kris Dunn · points 3.5 → 3 · 0.5 below the line · played 16.1 min · no final price

Each prediction is recorded as if you had staked 1 at the line you saw, and your record is shown here. One game tells you nothing yet.

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More context

Head to head

DEN vs LAC · last 38 games · DEN leads · DEN record 24–14 · average score 111.0–107.4 · DEN has won by 3.6 on average

Team results are background only; they say nothing about any single player's line.

14 Oct · DEN 110 at LAC 122DEN lost

What each defense gives up per game

LAC gives up118.1 points · 43.5 rebounds · 27.0 assists · 37.1% from three-point range

DEN gives up112.8 points · 44.7 rebounds · 28.7 assists · 34.9% from three-point range

Defense by position

How much this is worth

Defense-by-position numbers are mostly random from season to season; shown for context only. We tested it: a team's defense-by-position numbers from one half of the season do not predict the other half, so treat them as noise.

LAC gives up 118.1 points a game · 24th of 30 · league average 113.3+4.8 vs average

DEN gives up 112.8 points a game · 14th of 30 · league average 113.3about league average

How the game odds moved

No history of the game odds on file.

Data log (technical)

Technical detail for auditing; the plain version is above. Internal ids and formula names print here only.

Line-shopping measurement: project_conditional_minutes_refuted

Defense-by-position measurement: split-half reliability r = -0.033 across 12 cells (7 of 12 negative) against a shuffle null of 0.000; a placebo using the wrong position family reproduced the effect to within 0.12pp · project_dvp_blowout_gate_refuted · 2026-08-26

Our picks, raw · 0

No raw pick rows for this game.

Checked results, raw (basketball-stats shorthand) · 0

No graded rows for this game.

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