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Anthony Edwards vs top defenses

MIN · 2025-26 to 2026-27 · regular season

Anthony Edwards has averaged 29.0 points and 5.2 rebounds per game in 9 games against top-5 defenses, vs 29.5 points and 5.0 rebounds in 43 games against everyone else (2025-26 to 2026-27, regular season).

Vs top-5 defenses
29.0
points per game · 9 games
Vs everyone else
29.5
points per game · 43 games
Difference
−0.5
per game, top 5 minus everyone else

Career and by season

Anthony Edwards per game averages against top-5 defenses and everyone else, career and by season
PeriodOpponentsGamesPTSREBAST3PMSTLBLKMINFG%FT%TS%eFG%PTS diff vs others
CareerTop 5929.05.23.93.80.90.736.148.9%71.6%62.0%58.4%−0.5
Everyone else4329.55.03.73.41.40.935.549.2%80.2%61.6%57.4%
2026-27Top 50–––––––––––
Everyone else433.34.83.54.52.00.833.948.1%75.0%59.0%56.7%
2025-26Top 5929.05.23.93.80.90.736.148.9%71.6%62.0%58.4%−0.1
Everyone else3929.15.03.73.31.40.935.649.4%80.6%61.9%57.5%

Every game against top-5 defenses

  1. Apr 10, 2026at HOU · No. 5 defense (that season, games so far)22 pts, 2 reb, 3 ast · 3 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 27 min
  2. Mar 15, 2026at OKC · No. 1 defense (that season, games so far)19 pts, 6 reb, 5 ast · 2 3PM · 1 stl, 1 blk · 37 min
  3. Jan 29, 2026vs OKC · No. 1 defense (that season, games so far)26 pts, 5 reb, 5 ast · 4 3PM · 2 stl, 1 blk · 35 min
  4. Jan 17, 2026at SAS · No. 3 defense (that season, games so far)55 pts, 4 reb, 3 ast · 9 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 40 min
  5. Jan 11, 2026vs SAS · No. 4 defense (that season, games so far)23 pts, 2 reb, 3 ast · 1 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 38 min
  6. Jan 6, 2026vs MIA · No. 3 defense (that season, games so far)26 pts, 5 reb, 3 ast · 5 3PM · 1 stl, 2 blk · 29 min
  7. Jan 3, 2026at MIA · No. 3 defense (that season, games so far)33 pts, 3 reb, 5 ast · 2 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 38 min
  8. Dec 19, 2025vs OKC · No. 1 defense (that season, games so far)26 pts, 12 reb, 3 ast · 3 3PM · 3 stl, 2 blk · 41 min
  9. Nov 26, 2025at OKC · No. 1 defense (that season, games so far)31 pts, 8 reb, 5 ast · 5 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 40 min

What counts: a team's defensive rating is 100 × the points its opponents scored ÷ possessions, with possessions = FGA + 0.44*FTA - OREB + TOV, mean of both teams. A game's rank uses only games played before that date. Until every team has 15 games, the prior season's final ranks are used (4 games here, 48 games ranked on that season's games so far). Games are regular season; games he did not play are not counted. 13 games where the opponent's rank could not be determined are left out of both columns. TS% = PTS ÷ (2 × (FGA + 0.44 × FTA)); eFG% = (FGM + 0.5 × 3PM) ÷ FGA; both from totals for each row. Past results, not a projection.