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Hypothetical Matchup

These teams aren't scheduled to play. The prediction below is "if they faced off today" based on current 2025โ€“26 season ratings.

Oklahoma City Thunder vs New York Knicks
AI Prediction & Odds Analysis

If They Played Today

Model Pick
NYK NYK
Model Spread
NYK -6.2
Win Prob.
74.7%
If OKC visited NYK today, our model would lean New York Knicks with a 74.7% win probability. That reflects a season-long net rating edge of -8.7 points for NYK at home (plus ELO, rest, and recent form factored in).

Hypothetical matchup โ€” these teams aren't scheduled to play. The model updates daily as ratings and ELO move.

Team Stats Comparison

2025โ€“26 Season
12.7
Net Rating
4.0
119.2
Offensive Rating
117.3
106.6
Defensive Rating
113.3
100.9
Pace
97.6
OKC (Away) NYK (Home)

Recent Form

OKC OKC 75-22 L2 Avg margin last 5: -5.6
L SAS
L SAS
W SAS
L SAS
W SAS
NYK NYK 65-31 W11 Avg margin last 5: +21.4
W CLE
W CLE
W CLE
W CLE
W PHI

Head-to-Head History

1
NYK wins
9
OKC wins
2026-03-29 OKC 100 @ NYK 111 NYK W
2026-03-04 OKC 103 @ NYK 100 OKC W
2025-01-10 OKC 126 @ NYK 101 OKC W
2025-01-03 OKC 107 @ NYK 117 NYK W
2024-03-31 OKC 113 @ NYK 112 OKC W

How Often Has the Model Been Right?

Verified track record across every prediction we've made โ€” not specific to this matchup.

67.1%
All Games
7145 tracked
75.0%
High Conf.
>65% picks
82.0%
Last 50
recent games

The model is an isotonic-calibrated XGBoost classifier โ€” a 74.7% confidence above means "the model picked teams at this confidence level and was right about 75.0% of the time" historically.

See full track record with calibration & Brier score

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