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Josh Hart vs top defenses

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

Josh Hart has averaged 11.4 points and 7.4 rebounds per game in 12 games against top-5 defenses, vs 12.4 points and 7.5 rebounds in 46 games against everyone else (2025-26 to 2026-27, regular season).

Vs top-5 defenses
11.4
points per game · 12 games
Vs everyone else
12.4
points per game · 46 games
Difference
−1.0
per game, top 5 minus everyone else

Career and by season

Josh Hart per game averages against top-5 defenses and everyone else, career and by season
PeriodOpponentsGamesPTSREBAST3PMSTLBLKMINFG%FT%TS%eFG%PTS diff vs others
CareerTop 51211.47.44.01.81.70.230.445.8%62.5%55.5%55.0%−1.0
Everyone else4612.47.54.91.61.20.331.551.6%72.0%62.6%60.6%
2026-27Top 528.08.04.52.04.00.031.642.9%–57.1%57.1%−0.8
Everyone else58.87.03.61.81.40.431.737.2%60.0%48.7%47.7%
2025-26Top 51012.17.33.91.81.20.230.246.2%62.5%55.2%54.7%−0.7
Everyone else4112.87.55.11.61.20.231.453.3%72.6%64.2%62.1%

Every game against top-5 defenses

  1. Oct 27, 2026vs DET · No. 2 defense (prior season's final)6 pts, 4 reb, 4 ast · 2 3PM · 5 stl, 0 blk · 27 min
  2. Oct 23, 2026at BOS · No. 4 defense (prior season's final)10 pts, 12 reb, 5 ast · 2 3PM · 3 stl, 0 blk · 36 min
  3. Apr 9, 2026vs BOS · No. 4 defense (that season, games so far)26 pts, 1 reb, 3 ast · 5 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 35 min
  4. Mar 29, 2026at OKC · No. 1 defense (that season, games so far)15 pts, 6 reb, 3 ast · 5 3PM · 2 stl, 0 blk · 34 min
  5. Mar 4, 2026vs OKC · No. 1 defense (that season, games so far)10 pts, 12 reb, 3 ast · 0 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 25 min
  6. Mar 1, 2026vs SAS · No. 3 defense (that season, games so far)10 pts, 10 reb, 7 ast · 1 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 30 min
  7. Feb 21, 2026vs HOU · No. 5 defense (that season, games so far)2 pts, 6 reb, 6 ast · 0 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 27 min
  8. Feb 19, 2026vs DET · No. 2 defense (that season, games so far)11 pts, 4 reb, 3 ast · 0 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 28 min
  9. Feb 6, 2026at DET · No. 2 defense (that season, games so far)5 pts, 6 reb, 2 ast · 1 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 25 min
  10. Dec 21, 2025vs MIA · No. 3 defense (that season, games so far)13 pts, 10 reb, 5 ast · 3 3PM · 2 stl, 0 blk · 33 min
  11. Dec 13, 2025at ORL · No. 4 defense (that season, games so far)12 pts, 6 reb, 6 ast · 0 3PM · 3 stl, 1 blk · 31 min
  12. Dec 7, 2025vs ORL · No. 5 defense (that season, games so far)17 pts, 12 reb, 1 ast · 3 3PM · 2 stl, 1 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, 51 games ranked on that season's games so far). Games are regular season; games he did not play are not counted. 15 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.