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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.

San Antonio Spurs vs Cleveland Cavaliers
AI Prediction & Odds Analysis

If They Played Today

Model Pick
SAS SAS
Model Spread
CLE +2.8
Win Prob.
61.2%
If SAS visited CLE today, our model would lean San Antonio Spurs with a 61.2% win probability. That reflects a season-long net rating edge of +12.0 points for CLE 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
-2.8
Net Rating
9.2
113.5
Offensive Rating
121.0
116.3
Defensive Rating
111.8
100.1
Pace
100.3
SAS (Away) CLE (Home)

Recent Form

SAS SAS 75-26 W3 Avg margin last 5: +10.2
W OKC
W OKC
W OKC
L OKC
W OKC
CLE CLE 60-40 L4 Avg margin last 5: -9.2
L NYK
L NYK
L NYK
L NYK
W DET

Head-to-Head History

9
CLE wins
1
SAS wins
2025-12-29 SAS 113 @ CLE 101 SAS W
2025-12-05 SAS 117 @ CLE 130 CLE W
2025-04-04 SAS 114 @ CLE 113 SAS W
2025-03-27 SAS 116 @ CLE 124 CLE W
2024-02-03 SAS 117 @ CLE 101 SAS 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 61.2% 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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