Cade Cunningham vs top defenses
Cade Cunningham has averaged 23.6 points and 9.4 assists per game in 7 games against top-5 defenses, vs 23.0 points and 9.7 assists in 50 games against everyone else (2025-26 to 2026-27, regular season).
- Vs top-5 defenses
- 23.6
- points per game · 7 games
- Vs everyone else
- 23.0
- points per game · 50 games
- Difference
- +0.6
- per game, top 5 minus everyone else
Career and by season
| Period | Opponents | Games | PTS | REB | AST | 3PM | STL | BLK | MIN | FG% | FT% | TS% | eFG% | PTS diff vs others |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Career | Top 5 | 7 | 23.6 | 4.4 | 9.4 | 1.9 | 1.9 | 1.6 | 37.6 | 42.1% | 89.5% | 52.6% | 46.8% | +0.6 |
| Everyone else | 50 | 23.0 | 5.6 | 9.7 | 2.1 | 1.4 | 0.8 | 32.5 | 47.6% | 79.0% | 58.1% | 53.6% | ||
| 2026-27 | Top 5 | 1 | 22.0 | 4.0 | 8.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 35.3 | 44.4% | 100.0% | 54.5% | 47.2% | −2.0 |
| Everyone else | 6 | 24.0 | 5.7 | 7.0 | 2.7 | 1.7 | 1.2 | 32.0 | 49.0% | 73.7% | 60.6% | 56.9% | ||
| 2025-26 | Top 5 | 6 | 23.8 | 4.5 | 9.7 | 2.0 | 2.0 | 1.7 | 38.0 | 41.8% | 87.9% | 52.4% | 46.7% | +0.9 |
| Everyone else | 44 | 22.9 | 5.5 | 10.0 | 2.0 | 1.4 | 0.8 | 32.6 | 47.5% | 79.8% | 57.8% | 53.2% |
Every game against top-5 defenses
- Oct 20, 2026vs BOS · No. 4 defense (prior season's final)22 pts, 4 reb, 8 ast · 1 3PM · 1 stl, 1 blk · 35 min
- Mar 5, 2026at SAS · No. 3 defense (that season, games so far)26 pts, 4 reb, 8 ast · 4 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 39 min
- Feb 25, 2026vs OKC · No. 1 defense (that season, games so far)29 pts, 4 reb, 13 ast · 3 3PM · 3 stl, 3 blk · 38 min
- Feb 23, 2026vs SAS · No. 3 defense (that season, games so far)16 pts, 6 reb, 10 ast · 2 3PM · 2 stl, 3 blk · 35 min
- Jan 23, 2026vs HOU · No. 5 defense (that season, games so far)12 pts, 1 reb, 8 ast · 0 3PM · 2 stl, 1 blk · 38 min
- Jan 1, 2026vs MIA · No. 3 defense (that season, games so far)31 pts, 8 reb, 11 ast · 2 3PM · 3 stl, 2 blk · 40 min
- Nov 29, 2025at MIA · No. 2 defense (that season, games so far)29 pts, 4 reb, 8 ast · 1 3PM · 2 stl, 1 blk · 38 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, 50 games ranked on that season's games so far). Games are regular season; games he did not play are not counted. 14 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.