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Bam Adebayo vs top defenses

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

Bam Adebayo has averaged 19.2 points and 9.3 rebounds per game in 13 games against top-5 defenses, vs 19.8 points and 10.2 rebounds in 56 games against everyone else (2025-26 to 2026-27, regular season).

Vs top-5 defenses
19.2
points per game · 13 games
Vs everyone else
19.8
points per game · 56 games
Difference
−0.6
per game, top 5 minus everyone else

Career and by season

Bam Adebayo per game averages against top-5 defenses and everyone else, career and by season
PeriodOpponentsGamesPTSREBAST3PMSTLBLKMINFG%FT%TS%eFG%PTS diff vs others
CareerTop 51319.29.32.72.31.40.531.944.4%75.0%56.0%52.0%−0.6
Everyone else5619.810.23.41.41.30.732.544.7%77.5%54.9%49.2%
2026-27Top 514.06.03.00.02.00.023.333.3%0.0%29.1%33.3%−14.3
Everyone else618.38.33.50.72.30.832.750.6%81.3%59.1%53.2%
2025-26Top 51220.49.62.72.51.30.632.744.7%77.6%56.8%52.6%+0.5
Everyone else5019.910.43.41.51.20.732.444.1%77.1%54.5%48.9%

Every game against top-5 defenses

  1. Oct 23, 2026vs DET · No. 2 defense (prior season's final)4 pts, 6 reb, 3 ast · 0 3PM · 2 stl, 0 blk · 23 min
  2. Apr 1, 2026vs BOS · No. 4 defense (that season, games so far)29 pts, 10 reb, 2 ast · 5 3PM · 2 stl, 0 blk · 38 min
  3. Mar 23, 2026vs SAS · No. 3 defense (that season, games so far)18 pts, 3 reb, 4 ast · 2 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 29 min
  4. Mar 8, 2026vs DET · No. 2 defense (that season, games so far)24 pts, 9 reb, 6 ast · 4 3PM · 1 stl, 1 blk · 34 min
  5. Feb 28, 2026vs HOU · No. 4 defense (that season, games so far)24 pts, 11 reb, 1 ast · 3 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 35 min
  6. Jan 25, 2026at PHX · No. 4 defense (that season, games so far)22 pts, 7 reb, 1 ast · 2 3PM · 2 stl, 1 blk · 32 min
  7. Jan 17, 2026vs OKC · No. 1 defense (that season, games so far)30 pts, 12 reb, 4 ast · 6 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 32 min
  8. Jan 13, 2026vs PHX · No. 5 defense (that season, games so far)29 pts, 9 reb, 4 ast · 4 3PM · 2 stl, 1 blk · 32 min
  9. Jan 11, 2026at OKC · No. 1 defense (that season, games so far)6 pts, 14 reb, 4 ast · 0 3PM · 1 stl, 1 blk · 32 min
  10. Jan 3, 2026vs MIN · No. 5 defense (that season, games so far)12 pts, 9 reb, 4 ast · 1 3PM · 0 stl, 1 blk · 34 min
  11. Jan 1, 2026at DET · No. 2 defense (that season, games so far)15 pts, 14 reb, 0 ast · 1 3PM · 2 stl, 1 blk · 33 min
  12. Dec 3, 2025at DAL · No. 5 defense (that season, games so far)21 pts, 7 reb, 1 ast · 1 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 28 min
  13. Nov 29, 2025vs DET · No. 3 defense (that season, games so far)15 pts, 10 reb, 1 ast · 1 3PM · 2 stl, 1 blk · 33 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 (7 games here, 62 games ranked on that season's games so far). Games are regular season; games he did not play are not counted. 12 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.