I'll summon my guy
Dejounte just to make sure I'm looking at the right thing;
But per this stats page,
https://www.nba.com/stats/teams/trad...eason&Period=4, the Spurs are 10th in the league in win% of the 4th Q. I don't remember whether this was the criteria used in the tweet/stat that I'm remembering (it had them #12 then, IIRC), but if it is, looks like they're up two spots.
And yeah, garbage time makes the stat not really meaningful for deep analysis, but it's still good at a glance to give an impression of a team: an unclutch team is likely to be pretty far down 4th quarter stat lists, and vice-versa. It's no wonder a team like Portland is ahead of us, for example. And for the argument being made (Padre claiming Spurs were the
worst 4th Q team in the league), it's good enough, tbh.