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Kevin Love vs top-10 defenses

UTA · 2025-26 · regular season

Kevin Love has averaged 8.5 points and 7.6 rebounds per game in 12 games against top-10 defenses, vs 6.4 points and 5.3 rebounds in 15 games against everyone else (2025-26, regular season).

Vs top-10 defenses
8.5
points per game · 12 games
Vs everyone else
6.4
points per game · 15 games
Difference
+2.1
per game, top 10 minus everyone else

Career and by season

Kevin Love per game averages against top-10 defenses and everyone else, career and by season
PeriodOpponentsGamesPTSREBAST3PMSTLBLKMINFG%FT%TS%eFG%PTS diff vs others
CareerTop 10128.57.62.31.60.50.319.239.3%92.9%53.6%50.0%+2.1
Everyone else156.45.31.31.60.50.116.240.3%77.8%60.1%56.9%
2025-26Top 10128.57.62.31.60.50.319.239.3%92.9%53.6%50.0%+2.1
Everyone else156.45.31.31.60.50.116.240.3%77.8%60.1%56.9%

Every game against top-10 defenses

  1. Mar 11, 2026vs NYK · No. 7 defense (that season, games so far)6 pts, 6 reb, 2 ast · 2 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 10 min
  2. Feb 23, 2026at HOU · No. 5 defense (that season, games so far)5 pts, 9 reb, 5 ast · 1 3PM · 0 stl, 1 blk · 24 min
  3. Feb 1, 2026at TOR · No. 9 defense (that season, games so far)4 pts, 5 reb, 2 ast · 0 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 15 min
  4. Jan 22, 2026vs SAS · No. 3 defense (that season, games so far)5 pts, 4 reb, 1 ast · 1 3PM · 0 stl, 1 blk · 13 min
  5. Jan 19, 2026at SAS · No. 3 defense (that season, games so far)6 pts, 11 reb, 2 ast · 1 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 21 min
  6. Jan 8, 2026vs DAL · No. 10 defense (that season, games so far)10 pts, 10 reb, 2 ast · 1 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 24 min
  7. Jan 3, 2026at GSW · No. 6 defense (that season, games so far)5 pts, 10 reb, 5 ast · 1 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 24 min
  8. Dec 26, 2025vs DET · No. 2 defense (that season, games so far)14 pts, 5 reb, 3 ast · 3 3PM · 1 stl, 1 blk · 16 min
  9. Dec 20, 2025vs ORL · No. 7 defense (that season, games so far)16 pts, 16 reb, 1 ast · 4 3PM · 1 stl, 1 blk · 32 min
  10. Dec 12, 2025at MEM · No. 10 defense (that season, games so far)20 pts, 8 reb, 1 ast · 4 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 20 min
  11. Dec 7, 2025vs OKC · No. 1 defense (that season, games so far)0 pts, 2 reb, 2 ast · 0 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 16 min
  12. Dec 1, 2025vs HOU · No. 3 defense (that season, games so far)11 pts, 5 reb, 1 ast · 1 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 15 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, 27 games ranked on that season's games so far). Games are regular season; games he did not play are not counted. 10 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.