By the ScoreBoard team - published Nov 4, 2026, numbers updated Nov 4, 2026.
Short answer: in 174 finished NBA games, each last digit came up between 8.4% and 10.9% of the time at the end of a quarter - close to the 10% you would expect if every digit were equal. Football is the opposite: 0 and 7 alone made up 46.0% of NFL quarter-end digits.
NBA teams score about 25 to 30 points a quarter in 2s, 3s and free throws, so the last digit keeps moving and lands almost anywhere. Football scores move in big steps of 3 and 7, so they keep landing on the same few digits.
On an NBA board there is no square to dread. Every square has a real chance to hit at the end of some quarter, which is why NBA squares stay fun the whole game. The pairs that came up most this season are below - and even the top pair only shows up a few percent of the time.
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| Digit | Share |
|---|---|
| 0 | 10.3% |
| 1 | 10.0% |
| 2 | 10.2% |
| 3 | 10.9% |
| 4 | 10.7% |
| 5 | 9.9% |
| 6 | 9.9% |
| 7 | 8.4% |
| 8 | 10.0% |
| 9 | 9.7% |
| Pair | Share |
|---|---|
| 0-3 | 3.6% |
| 1-4 | 3.2% |
| 2-3 | 2.7% |
| 0-6 | 2.7% |
| 3-7 | 2.6% |
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