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Kawhi Leonard vs top-10 defenses

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

Kawhi Leonard has averaged 29.6 points and 7.9 rebounds per game in 20 games against top-10 defenses, vs 27.2 points and 5.9 rebounds in 41 games against everyone else (2025-26 to 2026-27, regular season).

Vs top-10 defenses
29.6
points per game · 20 games
Vs everyone else
27.2
points per game · 41 games
Difference
+2.4
per game, top 10 minus everyone else

Career and by season

Kawhi Leonard per game averages against top-10 defenses and everyone else, career and by season
PeriodOpponentsGamesPTSREBAST3PMSTLBLKMINFG%FT%TS%eFG%PTS diff vs others
CareerTop 102029.67.93.82.62.00.433.451.0%87.5%63.0%57.3%+2.4
Everyone else4127.25.93.52.71.70.431.449.4%89.8%62.0%56.3%
2026-27Top 100–––––––––––
Everyone else219.57.51.52.03.50.525.832.4%100.0%46.6%37.8%
2025-26Top 102029.67.93.82.62.00.433.451.0%87.5%63.0%57.3%+2.0
Everyone else3927.65.83.62.71.60.431.750.2%89.3%62.7%57.2%

Every game against top-10 defenses

  1. Apr 8, 2026vs OKC · No. 1 defense (that season, games so far)20 pts, 8 reb, 3 ast · 2 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 30 min
  2. Apr 2, 2026vs SAS · No. 3 defense (that season, games so far)24 pts, 6 reb, 5 ast · 4 3PM · 2 stl, 0 blk · 32 min
  3. Mar 25, 2026vs TOR · No. 9 defense (that season, games so far)27 pts, 6 reb, 2 ast · 2 3PM · 0 stl, 1 blk · 30 min
  4. Mar 11, 2026vs MIN · No. 10 defense (that season, games so far)45 pts, 5 reb, 5 ast · 6 3PM · 2 stl, 0 blk · 32 min
  5. Mar 9, 2026vs NYK · No. 6 defense (that season, games so far)29 pts, 7 reb, 8 ast · 2 3PM · 2 stl, 0 blk · 35 min
  6. Mar 6, 2026at SAS · No. 3 defense (that season, games so far)30 pts, 9 reb, 3 ast · 1 3PM · 3 stl, 0 blk · 37 min
  7. Feb 11, 2026at HOU · No. 4 defense (that season, games so far)27 pts, 12 reb, 4 ast · 1 3PM · 4 stl, 0 blk · 33 min
  8. Feb 10, 2026at HOU · No. 5 defense (that season, games so far)24 pts, 8 reb, 3 ast · 2 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 32 min
  9. Feb 8, 2026at MIN · No. 10 defense (that season, games so far)41 pts, 8 reb, 2 ast · 5 3PM · 4 stl, 0 blk · 34 min
  10. Feb 1, 2026at PHX · No. 6 defense (that season, games so far)25 pts, 8 reb, 5 ast · 1 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 30 min
  11. Jan 10, 2026at DET · No. 2 defense (that season, games so far)26 pts, 8 reb, 1 ast · 4 3PM · 4 stl, 0 blk · 31 min
  12. Jan 5, 2026vs GSW · No. 7 defense (that season, games so far)24 pts, 12 reb, 5 ast · 0 3PM · 1 stl, 2 blk · 38 min
  13. Dec 28, 2025vs DET · No. 2 defense (that season, games so far)55 pts, 11 reb, 2 ast · 5 3PM · 5 stl, 3 blk · 39 min
  14. Dec 23, 2025vs HOU · No. 5 defense (that season, games so far)41 pts, 8 reb, 5 ast · 4 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 37 min
  15. Dec 18, 2025at OKC · No. 1 defense (that season, games so far)22 pts, 8 reb, 6 ast · 0 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 32 min
  16. Dec 11, 2025at HOU · No. 2 defense (that season, games so far)24 pts, 9 reb, 4 ast · 3 3PM · 5 stl, 1 blk · 41 min
  17. Dec 6, 2025at MIN · No. 9 defense (that season, games so far)20 pts, 3 reb, 2 ast · 2 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 31 min
  18. Dec 3, 2025at ATL · No. 9 defense (that season, games so far)21 pts, 6 reb, 5 ast · 1 3PM · 2 stl, 0 blk · 35 min
  19. Dec 1, 2025at MIA · No. 2 defense (that season, games so far)36 pts, 7 reb, 2 ast · 3 3PM · 3 stl, 0 blk · 30 min
  20. Nov 29, 2025vs DAL · No. 6 defense (that season, games so far)30 pts, 8 reb, 3 ast · 3 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 29 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 (2 games here, 59 games ranked on that season's games so far). Games are regular season; games he did not play are not counted. 7 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.