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Jaden Hardy vs top defenses

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

Jaden Hardy has averaged 14.1 points and 1.8 rebounds per game in 10 games against top-5 defenses, vs 8.2 points and 1.4 rebounds in 36 games against everyone else (2025-26 to 2026-27, regular season).

Vs top-5 defenses
14.1
points per game · 10 games
Vs everyone else
8.2
points per game · 36 games
Difference
+5.9
per game, top 5 minus everyone else

Career and by season

Jaden Hardy per game averages against top-5 defenses and everyone else, career and by season
PeriodOpponentsGamesPTSREBAST3PMSTLBLKMINFG%FT%TS%eFG%PTS diff vs others
CareerTop 51014.11.81.42.90.40.221.253.1%66.7%68.3%67.9%+5.9
Everyone else368.21.41.11.60.30.114.738.4%73.5%51.7%49.0%
2026-27Top 50–––––––––––
Everyone else51.60.60.40.20.20.04.010.0%83.3%31.6%15.0%
2025-26Top 51014.11.81.42.90.40.221.253.1%66.7%68.3%67.9%+4.9
Everyone else319.21.51.21.80.30.116.539.5%72.1%52.6%50.4%

Every game against top-5 defenses

  1. Mar 22, 2026at NYK · No. 5 defense (that season, games so far)25 pts, 3 reb, 1 ast · 7 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 29 min
  2. Mar 21, 2026vs OKC · No. 1 defense (that season, games so far)10 pts, 1 reb, 2 ast · 2 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 19 min
  3. Mar 19, 2026vs DET · No. 2 defense (that season, games so far)13 pts, 0 reb, 2 ast · 3 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 25 min
  4. Mar 17, 2026vs DET · No. 2 defense (that season, games so far)16 pts, 2 reb, 2 ast · 4 3PM · 2 stl, 1 blk · 32 min
  5. Mar 14, 2026at BOS · No. 5 defense (that season, games so far)12 pts, 3 reb, 1 ast · 2 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 15 min
  6. Mar 10, 2026at MIA · No. 5 defense (that season, games so far)17 pts, 1 reb, 0 ast · 3 3PM · 0 stl, 1 blk · 23 min
  7. Mar 2, 2026vs HOU · No. 4 defense (that season, games so far)14 pts, 4 reb, 1 ast · 1 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 18 min
  8. Jan 28, 2026vs MIN · No. 4 defense (that season, games so far)11 pts, 2 reb, 3 ast · 2 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 24 min
  9. Dec 6, 2025vs HOU · No. 2 defense (that season, games so far)0 pts, 0 reb, 0 ast · 0 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 7 min
  10. Dec 5, 2025at OKC · No. 1 defense (that season, games so far)23 pts, 2 reb, 2 ast · 5 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 20 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 (5 games here, 41 games ranked on that season's games so far). Games are regular season; games he did not play are not counted. 16 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.