NBA · Finalupdated 02:42 UTC

Sacramento Kings vs Memphis Grizzlies

at Memphis Grizzlies

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SAC 105 – MEM 136

Final

We had no picks in this game; every posted line is still scored below.

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.

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How to read this page

A pick is a player line, for example Under 13.5 points, that we published before the game together with the price we found for it. We do not take bets.
Odds are shown in the decimal format: 1.93 means you get back 1.93 for every 1 staked, so a higher number pays more. The American format (−108 means risk 108 to win 100; +111 means risk 100 to win 111) appears only in the Data log at the bottom of the page.
'Posted at' is the price we found when we published the pick; 'better' is a higher price for the same line at another bookmaker. Taking the better price is the one thing on this page that made money over many past bets; that was measured on WNBA bets, and NBA has not been measured yet.
'Market puts Under at 48.5%' is the chance implied by all bookmakers' prices together, with their built-in margin removed. Pinnacle is a bookmaker whose prices are widely treated as the most accurate reference, so it is the one we compare against.
A player's rate is how often that player has gone over the line in every game we hold since the 2019-20 season (not only this season), for example over in 41 of 78 games (52.6%), with a likely range such as 32–52%: fewer games means a wider range, and under 10 games we show no rate word at all.
'Past record stronger than the price' means the whole likely range sits above the chance the bookmakers' price implies; 'weaker' means below; 'agrees with the price' means the price sits inside the range, which is the usual case. None of these is a tip.
'Not measurable' is the usual honest answer: too few games to tell a real difference from chance.
'What could go wrong' lists the facts that can change a line: who is out, whether the starting lineup is confirmed, expected playing time (RotoWire's estimate), rest, and how many bookmakers price each line.
After the final, every pick is checked against the official stats and compared with the last price before the game started, the market's most informed price; getting a better price than that is the fairest test of a pick, whether or not it won. A tie means the player landed exactly on the line and the stake is returned; lines ending in .5 cannot tie.
Results are given for every 1 staked: 'would have returned +0.93' means a stake of 1 would have come back with 0.93 in profit. We do not stake anything; the record is what a stake of 1 on each pick would have done. Our record counts a smaller stake when the price advantage was small.
S beside a name marks an expected starter. Times are shown in your device's time zone; our data is recorded in US Eastern Time (ET). Team codes are the league's three-letter abbreviations.
'Your prediction' lets you pick Over or Under on any line before the game starts; we check your predictions the same way and keep your record, and one game of results proves nothing.
Team codes on this page: SAC = Sacramento Kings, MEM = Memphis Grizzlies.

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Picks and prices

Odds of at least 1.70 only · highest odds first · results checked

A line is the number a bookmaker sets, e.g. 13.5 points; Over means more than it, Under fewer. Odds 1.93 pay 1.93 for every 1 staked. 'Posted at' is the price we found when we published the pick; after the game it is compared with the last price before the start.

We had no picks in this game.

Why the better price matters

A higher price for the same line pays more whenever the pick wins; that is arithmetic, not a forecast.

What taking the best price is worth has been measured only on WNBA lines (25 Aug 2026); NBA has not been measured yet.

The players

Full player-line feed has no entries in this view · 35 rostered players. This does not confirm that bookmakers have posted no lines.

Rate: the share of every game we hold for the player since the 2019-20 season (not only this season) in which the player finished above tonight's line. S beside a name marks an expected starter.

Context only A player's rate describes the past; it is not a tip and has not been tested as one. Expected minutes come from RotoWire, a lineup news service.

Sign in to see each player's rate The numbers below (for example 15.5 points) are the lines the bookmakers actually posted.

Sacramento Kingsplaying MEM

17 players have no line from any bookmaker: Jr. (35 expected minutes) · Sabonis (35 min) · +15 more

Memphis Grizzliesplaying SAC

18 players have no line from any bookmaker: Spencer (32 expected minutes) · Boozer (32 min) · +16 more

Original forecast · corrected actuals

What did we expect, and what happened?

This reads the saved pre-tip model. Today’s rosters, injuries and model changes do not rewrite it.

Reading the immutable pre-tip record…

What could go wrong

updated 02:42 UTC

Who is out

May not play Post · earlier listed as out (changed Tue 23:15 UTC) · 7, 12 and 17 min in the last 3 games

Out S. Pippen Jr. (MEM) · earlier listed as unlikely to play (changed Tue 00:15 UTC) · 14, 13 and 17 min in the last 3 games

Jerome · earlier listed as out, now available (changed Sun 23:15 UTC) · 24, 30 and 32 min in the last 3 games

Spencer · new starter

Cardwell · earlier listed as out, now available (changed 00:45 UTC) · 21, 24 and 26 min in the last 3 games

Out Simmons · right achilles tendon repair/surgery (achilles) · SAC

Out K. Murray (SAC) · left ankle capsulitis (ankle)

Out Raynaud · right knee subluxation · SAC

Achiuwa · likely to play · left ankle soreness (ankle) · SAC

Out Pedulla · two-way · SAC

Lineups

Starting lineup confirmed (Sat 23:30 UTC) · NBA Official Lineups API, a lineup news service

Playing time

For 6 players (Sabonis, Jr., LaVine, Grant, Stewart, Jackson) we have no real minutes estimate, only a default.

Rest

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

Bookmakers

Full player-line feed has no entries in this view. This does not confirm that bookmakers have posted no lines.

Looking back

Flagged before the game: Post out (Tue 23:15 UTC) · played

Flagged before the game: S. Pippen Jr. (MEM) out (Tue 00:15 UTC) · played

Flagged before the game: Jerome out (Sun 23:15 UTC) · played

Spencer new starter · started, 25.0 min

Flagged before the game: Simmons out · played

Flagged before the game: Cardwell out (00:45 UTC) · played

Flagged before the game: K. Murray (SAC) out · played

Flagged before the game: Raynaud out · played

Flagged before the game: Pedulla out · played

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.

What happened

One game proves nothing.

FinalWe had no picks in this game · every posted line is still scored below · checked Sun 02:41 UTC

No player-line entries were captured in this roster view.

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.

More context

Head to head

MEM vs SAC · last 25 games · MEM leads · MEM record 16–9 · average score 114.8–110.4 · MEM has won by 4.4 on average

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

31 Oct · SAC 105 at MEM 136MEM won

25 Oct · MEM 123 at SAC 112MEM won

23 Feb · SAC 123 at MEM 114MEM lost

What each defense gives up per game

SAC gives up124.3 points · 44.6 rebounds · 28.4 assists · 36.9% from three-point range

MEM gives up110.1 points · 42.4 rebounds · 23.9 assists · 31.1% 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.

SAC gives up 124.3 points a game · 29th of 30 · league average 113.5+10.8 vs average

MEM gives up 110.1 points a game · 12th of 30 · league average 113.5−3.4 vs average

How the game odds moved

Pinnacle first had MEM expected to win by 8.5, expected total 230.5 (Sat 18:50 UTC) and later MEM expected to win by 8, expected total 228.5 (Sat 23:55 UTC).

The odds at the top of the page are the latest we have, from every bookmaker on file; this is one bookmaker's own history.

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.

Data fetches · 17

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