FloaterDaily Brief
Tuesday, December 30, 2025Regular season · 4 games
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4 games, 1 went to overtime. Biggest comeback: BOS trailed UTA by 7 after the first quarter and won 129–119.

Final · OT
PHI139
MEM136
Q1 PHI -6; Q2 PHI 0; Q3 PHI +3; Q4 PHI 0; OT1 PHI +3
Final
BOS129
UTA119
Q1 BOS -7; Q2 BOS -5; Q3 BOS +3; Q4 BOS +10
Final
DET128
LAL106
Q1 DET +6; Q2 DET +5; Q3 DET +8; Q4 DET +22
Final
SAC90
LAC131
Q1 LAC +14; Q2 LAC +33; Q3 LAC +29; Q4 LAC +41
Bars under each score: who led after each quarter, from the winner's side. winner ahead behind behind in a 10+ point comeback tied
On this day · 2024–25Dec 30, 2024: 7 games. Top scorer: Joel Embiid (PHI @ POR), 37 points.
The lead · BOS @ UTA

Boston beats Utah, 129–119

Boston led 99–96 after three and won by 10. Derrick White led Boston with 27 points, 7 rebounds and 6 assists. Keyonte George scored 37 for Utah in the loss.

Game flow · BOS margin at each break
Quarter-end scores only (4 points), so swings inside a period don't show.
-20-100+10+20TipEnd Q1HalfEnd Q3Final0-7-5+3+10BOS AHEAD ↑UTA AHEAD ↓
By quarter
Q1Q2Q3Q4T
BOS31284030129
UTA38263223119
Who led
Derrick WhitePoints, last 10 games: 19, 27, 11, 31, 33, 15, 19, 21, 12, 27BOS27 PTS · 7 REB · 6 AST
Jaylen BrownPoints, last 10 games: 42, 30, 30, 30, 34, 30, 31, 30, 37, 23BOS23 PTS · 6 REB · 10 AST
Keyonte GeorgePoints, last 10 games: 8, 39, 37, 34, 27, 20, 24, 31, 28, 37UTA37 PTS · 6 REB · 7 AST
Jusuf NurkicPoints, last 10 games: 18, 4, 7, 13, 15, 4, 17, 16, 16, 26UTA26 PTS · 8 REB · 8 AST
Second story · PHI @ MEM

Philadelphia outlasts Memphis in overtime

128–128 at the end of regulation. Philadelphia took the last extra period 11–8. Final: 139–136. Joel Embiid led Philadelphia with 34 points, 10 rebounds and 8 assists.

Top-scorer duel · PHI vs MEM
Joel Embiid · PHIJa Morant · MEMPTS3440REB102AST83Top scorer on each side. Bars scale within each stat. Pink = the winning side.
Fantasy angleRecent form and minutes against each player's season average from games before today.
Heating up
+10.3points, last 5 vs season avg
Points per game
27.5Season avg37.8Last 5

37.8 points a game over his last five games, against 27.5 in 21 earlier games. Today: 33 points in 33 minutes.

Losing minutes
−10.4minutes, last 3 vs season avg
Minutes per game
28.4Season avg18.0Last 3

18.0 minutes a game over his last three games, against 28.4 in 22 earlier games. Today: 7 points in 6 minutes.

Stepped-up role
+20.7minutes, today vs season avg
Minutes per game
18.3Season avg39Today

39 minutes today, against 18.3 a game in 29 earlier games. Line: 5 points, 5 rebounds, 3 assists.

Top performances

Ja Morant leads the day with 40

Sparkline: points in his last 10 games, tonight in pink. Black tag: most points in a game this season to date, or in his career when his whole career is in our box scores (after 5+ games). Plus/minus: points tonight against his average before tonight.
Ja MorantPoints, last 10 games: 17, 21, 11, 16, 7, 21, 12, 17, 21, 40MEM vs PHI · L
19.2 PPG season to date · +22.1 vs his regular-season average before tonight
Most like it since 1995–96: Jalen Rose IND, May 6, 2000: 40 PTS · 2 REB · 3 AST
Season high40 PTS · 2 REB · 3 AST
Keyonte GeorgePoints, last 10 games: 8, 39, 37, 34, 27, 20, 24, 31, 28, 37UTA vs BOS · L
24.6 PPG season to date · +12.8 vs his regular-season average before tonight
37 PTS · 6 REB · 7 AST
Joel EmbiidPoints, last 10 games: 20, 29, 18, 12, 16, 39, 22, 27, 31, 34PHI @ MEM · W
22.6 PPG season to date · +12.2 vs his regular-season average before tonight
34 PTS · 10 REB · 8 AST
Tyrese MaxeyPoints, last 10 games: 35, 35, 12, 28, 30, 38, 13, 27, 28, 34PHI @ MEM · W
30.8 PPG season to date · +3.3 vs his regular-season average before tonight
34 PTS · 4 REB · 12 AST
Kawhi LeonardPoints, last 10 games: 24, 20, 24, 21, 22, 32, 41, 28, 55, 33LAC vs SAC · W
27.8 PPG season to date · +5.5 vs his regular-season average before tonight
33 PTS · 5 REB · 5 AST
Luka DoncicPoints, last 10 games: 34, 38, 31, 35, 29, 45, 12, 25, 34, 30LAL vs DET · L
33.5 PPG season to date · −3.7 vs his regular-season average before tonight
30 PTS · 5 REB · 11 AST
Hot and cold

Last 10 games against the season so far

Points per game in each player's last 10 games minus his season average through tonight. Regular season, players with 20+ games and 20+ minutes a game.
Hot
Anthony BlackORL+5.3 20.8 last 10 · 15.5 season
Carlton CarringtonWAS+5.3 14.5 last 10 · 9.2 season
Cooper FlaggDAL+5.0 24.4 last 10 · 19.4 season
Bobby PortisMIL+4.6 17.7 last 10 · 13.1 season
Maxime RaynaudSAC+4.3 14.9 last 10 · 10.6 season
Cold
De'Aaron FoxSAS−4.5 17.1 last 10 · 21.6 season
Quentin GrimesPHI−4.5 10.2 last 10 · 14.7 season
De'Andre HunterCLE−3.6 11.1 last 10 · 14.7 season
Rui HachimuraLAL−3.5 9.2 last 10 · 12.7 season
Isaiah JoeOKC−3.5 7.2 last 10 · 10.7 season