Halfway between the final score and the play-by-play, there are questions we can ask about a basketball game that tells us much about how it was played: Did a single team dominate or did the lead go back and forth? Were the leads large or usually close? Were there long one-sided point streaks?
This is a database of NBA games from 2010 to whenever I last updated it where you can check these parameters for any game you want and see them in context.