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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.

Portland Trail Blazers vs New York Knicks
AI Prediction & Odds Analysis

If They Played Today

Model Pick
NYK NYK
Model Spread
NYK -9.9
Win Prob.
89.7%
If POR visited NYK today, our model would lean New York Knicks with a 89.7% win probability. That reflects a season-long net rating edge of +6.7 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
-2.7
Net Rating
4.0
111.0
Offensive Rating
117.3
113.7
Defensive Rating
113.3
99.5
Pace
97.6
POR (Away) NYK (Home)

Recent Form

POR POR 43-44 L3 Avg margin last 5: -12.4
L SAS
L SAS
L SAS
W SAS
L 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

8
NYK wins
2
POR wins
2026-01-30 POR 97 @ NYK 127 NYK W
2026-01-11 POR 123 @ NYK 114 POR W
2025-03-30 POR 93 @ NYK 110 NYK W
2025-03-12 POR 114 @ NYK 113 POR W
2024-03-14 POR 105 @ NYK 93 POR 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
7146 tracked
75.1%
High Conf.
>65% picks
80.0%
Last 50
recent games

The model is an isotonic-calibrated XGBoost classifier โ€” a 89.7% confidence above means "the model picked teams at this confidence level and was right about 75.1% of the time" historically.

See full track record with calibration & Brier score

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