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Jaden Hardy vs top-10 defenses

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

Jaden Hardy has averaged 12.3 points and 1.5 rebounds per game in 13 games against top-10 defenses, vs 8.3 points and 1.5 rebounds in 33 games against everyone else (2025-26 to 2026-27, regular season).

Vs top-10 defenses
12.3
points per game · 13 games
Vs everyone else
8.3
points per game · 33 games
Difference
+4.0
per game, top 10 minus everyone else

Career and by season

Jaden Hardy per game averages against top-10 defenses and everyone else, career and by season
PeriodOpponentsGamesPTSREBAST3PMSTLBLKMINFG%FT%TS%eFG%PTS diff vs others
CareerTop 101312.31.51.12.50.40.219.352.3%70.6%67.5%66.7%+4.0
Everyone else338.31.51.21.60.20.114.938.0%72.7%51.0%48.6%
2026-27Top 1011.00.00.00.00.00.01.0–50.0%56.8%–−0.8
Everyone else41.80.80.50.30.30.04.710.0%100.0%29.8%15.0%
2025-26Top 101213.31.71.22.70.40.220.852.3%73.3%67.6%66.7%+4.1
Everyone else299.21.61.31.80.20.116.339.2%70.0%52.0%50.0%

Every game against top-10 defenses

  1. Nov 1, 2026vs TOR · No. 7 defense (prior season's final)1 pts, 0 reb, 0 ast · 0 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 1 min
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. Feb 28, 2026vs TOR · No. 7 defense (that season, games so far)11 pts, 0 reb, 0 ast · 2 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 20 min
  10. Feb 3, 2026vs BOS · No. 10 defense (that season, games so far)7 pts, 2 reb, 0 ast · 1 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 18 min
  11. 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
  12. 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
  13. 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.