Joel Embiid vs top-10 defenses
Joel Embiid has averaged 24.6 points and 9.6 rebounds per game in 12 games against top-10 defenses, vs 27.7 points and 7.7 rebounds in 26 games against everyone else (2025-26 to 2026-27, regular season).
- Vs top-10 defenses
- 24.6
- points per game · 12 games
- Vs everyone else
- 27.7
- points per game · 26 games
- Difference
- −3.1
- per game, top 10 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 10 | 12 | 24.6 | 9.6 | 4.8 | 1.6 | 0.7 | 1.6 | 34.9 | 40.8% | 87.0% | 54.5% | 45.1% | −3.1 |
| Everyone else | 26 | 27.7 | 7.7 | 3.9 | 1.1 | 0.5 | 0.9 | 32.3 | 51.7% | 84.9% | 62.0% | 54.6% | ||
| 2026-27 | Top 10 | 2 | 11.5 | 9.0 | 6.5 | 1.0 | 1.5 | 2.0 | 33.3 | 25.9% | 87.5% | 37.7% | 29.6% | −10.5 |
| Everyone else | 4 | 22.0 | 9.3 | 4.0 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 33.4 | 46.9% | 84.4% | 56.4% | 47.7% | ||
| 2025-26 | Top 10 | 10 | 27.2 | 9.7 | 4.5 | 1.7 | 0.5 | 1.5 | 35.2 | 42.9% | 87.0% | 56.7% | 47.2% | −1.5 |
| Everyone else | 22 | 28.7 | 7.4 | 3.9 | 1.2 | 0.5 | 1.0 | 32.1 | 52.4% | 85.0% | 62.8% | 55.7% |
Every game against top-10 defenses
- Oct 30, 2026vs NYK · No. 6 defense (prior season's final)10 pts, 7 reb, 7 ast · 0 3PM · 1 stl, 1 blk · 33 min
- Oct 20, 2026at NYK · No. 6 defense (prior season's final)13 pts, 11 reb, 6 ast · 2 3PM · 2 stl, 3 blk · 33 min
- Apr 6, 2026at SAS · No. 3 defense (that season, games so far)34 pts, 12 reb, 1 ast · 2 3PM · 0 stl, 4 blk · 39 min
- Apr 3, 2026vs MIN · No. 5 defense (that season, games so far)19 pts, 13 reb, 7 ast · 1 3PM · 0 stl, 3 blk · 34 min
- Mar 30, 2026at MIA · No. 9 defense (that season, games so far)26 pts, 7 reb, 3 ast · 2 3PM · 0 stl, 1 blk · 34 min
- Mar 28, 2026at CHA · No. 10 defense (that season, games so far)29 pts, 6 reb, 2 ast · 3 3PM · 0 stl, 2 blk · 36 min
- Feb 26, 2026vs MIA · No. 5 defense (that season, games so far)26 pts, 11 reb, 4 ast · 2 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 31 min
- Feb 7, 2026at PHX · No. 7 defense (that season, games so far)33 pts, 9 reb, 3 ast · 4 3PM · 0 stl, 1 blk · 33 min
- Jan 22, 2026vs HOU · No. 5 defense (that season, games so far)32 pts, 15 reb, 10 ast · 1 3PM · 1 stl, 1 blk · 46 min
- Jan 12, 2026at TOR · No. 6 defense (that season, games so far)27 pts, 8 reb, 4 ast · 1 3PM · 2 stl, 0 blk · 36 min
- Dec 30, 2025at MEM · No. 8 defense (that season, games so far)34 pts, 10 reb, 8 ast · 1 3PM · 1 stl, 2 blk · 38 min
- Dec 4, 2025vs GSW · No. 8 defense (that season, games so far)12 pts, 6 reb, 3 ast · 0 3PM · 0 stl, 1 blk · 25 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 (6 games here, 32 games ranked on that season's games so far). Games are regular season; games he did not play are not counted. 6 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.