NBA today
Tonight's games, or the next slate if there is nothing on. Basketball does not play in rounds, so the unit here is a date: each game with its posted line and total, both teams' form against the number, how they score and concede, and what the second night of a back-to-back has done to them.
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What NBA games are on tonight?
The table above is the slate for the selected date: every fixture with its posted line and total, both sides' record against the number, how they score and concede, and what rest each is walking in on. Basketball does not play in rounds, so the unit here is a date rather than a round or a week. When a date has no games, the next slate with games is shown instead.
How many points does an average NBA game produce?
228.3, measured across 5,591 completed games in the 2022–2025 seasons. That is the figure a posted total should be read against: a total of 235 is a high-scoring expectation and a total of 215 is a low one, and knowing which is which is most of what a total tells you.
Is there an edge in NBA sides and totals?
Measured over 5,591 games, no. The home side wins 55.4% of the time and the market favourite wins 68.0%, but against the posted number the home side covers just 49.5% and the over hits 50.4% — both within a point of a coin flip, and both below the 52.4% needed to break even at standard −110 pricing. That is what an efficiently priced market looks like. Picking winners and losing money is the normal case in basketball, not an anomaly, because the price already contains everything the record contains.
What actually shows up in the data?
Rest. A home side playing the second night of a back-to-back wins 49.2% of the time; the same home sides with two or more days off win 56.4%. That seven-point gap is the largest repeatable situational effect in this dataset, which is why every fixture on this site carries its rest and back-to-back state rather than burying it. Whether the gap is priced is a separate question, and the honest answer is that it mostly is.
Where do these numbers come from?
Game results, closing lines, totals, quarter scores and the officiating crew come from sportsdatabase.com, covering the 2022–2025 seasons — 5,591 completed games as at the current build. Rest days and back-to-backs are derived from the schedule itself rather than taken from a feed. Player box scores and injury reports come from ESPN's public site API. Nothing on this page is a tip: it is the record, laid out so you can see what a team has actually done in the situation it is about to walk into.
Frequently asked questions
What NBA games are on today?
The page lists every fixture on the selected date with its posted line and total, each side's record against the number, their scoring and conceding rates, and the rest each team is on. Dates with no games roll forward to the next slate.
How many points does an average NBA game score?
228.3 points, measured across 5,591 completed games in the 2022 to 2025 seasons.
Does the home team win more often in the NBA?
Yes, 55.4% of the time over 5,591 games. But against the posted spread the home side covers only 49.5%, so the advantage is already in the price.
Does a back-to-back hurt an NBA team?
Measurably. A home side on the second night of a back-to-back wins 49.2% of the time, against 56.4% for home sides with two or more days off. It is the largest repeatable situational effect in this dataset.
NBA games on 2026-10-29 — lines, totals and derived period numbers
| Game | Line | Total | 1st half total | 1st quarter total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cavaliers at Hawks | Hawks -1.5 | 237.5 | 119.2 | 59.9 |
| Kings at Pelicans | Pelicans -5.5 | 235.5 | 118.2 | 59.3 |
| Grizzlies at Trail Blazers | Trail Blazers -7.5 | 232.5 | 116.7 | 58.6 |
3 games on 2026-10-29. The half and quarter totals above are derived, not posted: across 5,320 games an NBA game puts 50.2% of its points in the first half and 49.7% in the second, and by quarter 25.2% / 25% / 25.3% / 24.4%. Basketball's periods are close enough to even that dividing a posted total is defensible — which is not true of gridiron, where the four quarters carry roughly 19.6%, 31%, 20.7% and 28.6% of the scoring and a derived quarter line would be indefensible.