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Jaylen Brown vs top defenses

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

Jaylen Brown has averaged 27.2 points and 7.3 rebounds per game in 12 games against top-5 defenses, vs 28.2 points and 7.3 rebounds in 49 games against everyone else (2025-26 to 2026-27, regular season).

Vs top-5 defenses
27.2
points per game · 12 games
Vs everyone else
28.2
points per game · 49 games
Difference
−1.0
per game, top 5 minus everyone else

Career and by season

Jaylen Brown per game averages against top-5 defenses and everyone else, career and by season
PeriodOpponentsGamesPTSREBAST3PMSTLBLKMINFG%FT%TS%eFG%PTS diff vs others
CareerTop 51227.27.35.31.70.80.835.541.5%78.9%52.1%45.3%−1.0
Everyone else4928.27.35.32.01.20.335.148.1%79.9%57.8%52.9%
2026-27Top 5116.04.04.02.00.01.040.125.0%50.0%34.0%30.0%−5.3
Everyone else621.37.34.31.81.50.335.450.0%80.8%59.6%55.7%
2025-26Top 51128.27.65.41.60.80.735.142.9%81.2%53.6%46.5%−1.0
Everyone else4329.27.35.42.11.10.335.147.9%79.8%57.6%52.6%

Every game against top-5 defenses

  1. Oct 25, 2026vs DET · No. 2 defense (prior season's final)16 pts, 4 reb, 4 ast · 2 3PM · 0 stl, 1 blk · 40 min
  2. Mar 25, 2026vs OKC · No. 1 defense (that season, games so far)31 pts, 8 reb, 8 ast · 1 3PM · 2 stl, 0 blk · 39 min
  3. Mar 12, 2026at OKC · No. 1 defense (that season, games so far)34 pts, 6 reb, 7 ast · 1 3PM · 2 stl, 1 blk · 41 min
  4. Mar 10, 2026at SAS · No. 3 defense (that season, games so far)8 pts, 2 reb, 7 ast · 0 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 15 min
  5. Feb 6, 2026vs MIA · No. 5 defense (that season, games so far)29 pts, 7 reb, 2 ast · 1 3PM · 0 stl, 1 blk · 33 min
  6. Jan 19, 2026at DET · No. 2 defense (that season, games so far)32 pts, 11 reb, 2 ast · 2 3PM · 0 stl, 1 blk · 39 min
  7. Jan 15, 2026at MIA · No. 4 defense (that season, games so far)27 pts, 7 reb, 0 ast · 2 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 30 min
  8. Jan 10, 2026vs SAS · No. 4 defense (that season, games so far)27 pts, 8 reb, 7 ast · 5 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 43 min
  9. Jan 9, 2026vs TOR · No. 4 defense (that season, games so far)25 pts, 8 reb, 7 ast · 1 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 37 min
  10. Dec 19, 2025vs MIA · No. 3 defense (that season, games so far)30 pts, 9 reb, 7 ast · 2 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 35 min
  11. Dec 15, 2025vs DET · No. 2 defense (that season, games so far)34 pts, 8 reb, 7 ast · 1 3PM · 1 stl, 3 blk · 40 min
  12. Nov 26, 2025vs DET · No. 3 defense (that season, games so far)33 pts, 10 reb, 5 ast · 2 3PM · 2 stl, 2 blk · 34 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, 54 games ranked on that season's games so far). Games are regular season; games he did not play are not counted. 17 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.