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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.

Cleveland Cavaliers vs San Antonio Spurs
AI Prediction & Odds Analysis

If They Played Today

Model Pick
SAS SAS
Model Spread
SAS -9.9
Win Prob.
89.7%
If CLE visited SAS today, our model would lean San Antonio Spurs with a 89.7% win probability. That reflects a season-long net rating edge of -12.0 points for SAS 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
9.2
Net Rating
-2.8
121.0
Offensive Rating
113.5
111.8
Defensive Rating
116.3
100.3
Pace
100.1
CLE (Away) SAS (Home)

Recent Form

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

Head-to-Head History

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