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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.

Boston Celtics vs New York Knicks
AI Prediction & Odds Analysis

If They Played Today

Model Pick
NYK NYK
Model Spread
NYK -9.8
Win Prob.
89.0%
If BOS visited NYK today, our model would lean New York Knicks with a 89.0% win probability. That reflects a season-long net rating edge of -5.4 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
9.4
Net Rating
4.0
119.5
Offensive Rating
117.3
110.1
Defensive Rating
113.3
96.6
Pace
97.6
BOS (Away) NYK (Home)

Recent Form

BOS BOS 59-30 L3 Avg margin last 5: +0.4
L PHI
L PHI
L PHI
W PHI
W PHI
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

7
NYK wins
3
BOS wins
2026-04-09 BOS 106 @ NYK 112 NYK W
2026-02-08 BOS 111 @ NYK 89 BOS W
2025-12-02 BOS 117 @ NYK 123 NYK W
2025-10-24 BOS 95 @ NYK 105 NYK W
2025-05-16 BOS 81 @ NYK 119 NYK 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 89.0% 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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