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Jimmy Butler vs top defenses

GSW · 2025-26 · regular season

Jimmy Butler has averaged 14.7 points and 3.7 rebounds per game in 3 games against top-5 defenses, vs 20.9 points and 5.8 rebounds in 18 games against everyone else (2025-26, regular season).

Vs top-5 defenses
14.7
points per game · 3 games
Vs everyone else
20.9
points per game · 18 games
Difference
−6.2
per game, top 5 minus everyone else

Career and by season

Jimmy Butler per game averages against top-5 defenses and everyone else, career and by season
PeriodOpponentsGamesPTSREBAST3PMSTLBLKMINFG%FT%TS%eFG%PTS diff vs others
CareerTop 5314.73.73.31.01.30.023.048.3%100.0%63.4%53.4%−6.2
Everyone else1820.95.85.10.81.20.232.451.5%85.2%63.4%54.5%
2025-26Top 5314.73.73.31.01.30.023.048.3%100.0%63.4%53.4%−6.2
Everyone else1820.95.85.10.81.20.232.451.5%85.2%63.4%54.5%

Every game against top-5 defenses

  1. Jan 19, 2026vs MIA · No. 5 defense (that season, games so far)17 pts, 3 reb, 4 ast · 0 3PM · 2 stl, 0 blk · 21 min
  2. Dec 2, 2025vs OKC · No. 1 defense (that season, games so far)6 pts, 3 reb, 1 ast · 1 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 15 min
  3. Nov 26, 2025vs HOU · No. 5 defense (that season, games so far)21 pts, 5 reb, 5 ast · 2 3PM · 2 stl, 0 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 (0 games here, 21 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.