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Khaman Maluach vs top-10 defenses

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

Khaman Maluach has averaged 4.5 points and 3.9 rebounds per game in 15 games against top-10 defenses, vs 3.3 points and 3.5 rebounds in 29 games against everyone else (2025-26 to 2026-27, regular season).

Vs top-10 defenses
4.5
points per game · 15 games
Vs everyone else
3.3
points per game · 29 games
Difference
+1.2
per game, top 10 minus everyone else

Career and by season

Khaman Maluach per game averages against top-10 defenses and everyone else, career and by season
PeriodOpponentsGamesPTSREBAST3PMSTLBLKMINFG%FT%TS%eFG%PTS diff vs others
CareerTop 10154.53.90.30.30.30.410.150.0%84.6%58.0%53.8%+1.2
Everyone else293.33.50.20.10.11.011.257.7%57.1%59.8%59.2%
2026-27Top 10112.07.01.00.01.01.025.650.0%100.0%55.1%50.0%+5.7
Everyone else46.35.81.00.30.51.018.864.3%66.7%69.6%67.9%
2025-26Top 10143.93.60.20.30.20.49.050.0%81.8%58.7%54.8%+1.1
Everyone else252.83.10.10.00.11.010.056.1%50.0%57.0%57.0%

Every game against top-10 defenses

  1. Oct 26, 2026at OKC · No. 1 defense (prior season's final)12 pts, 7 reb, 1 ast · 0 3PM · 1 stl, 1 blk · 26 min
  2. Apr 12, 2026at OKC · No. 1 defense (that season, games so far)18 pts, 14 reb, 0 ast · 2 3PM · 1 stl, 2 blk · 29 min
  3. Apr 7, 2026vs HOU · No. 5 defense (that season, games so far)0 pts, 0 reb, 0 ast · 0 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 1 min
  4. Apr 2, 2026at CHA · No. 10 defense (that season, games so far)1 pts, 0 reb, 0 ast · 0 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 3 min
  5. Mar 22, 2026vs TOR · No. 8 defense (that season, games so far)7 pts, 7 reb, 0 ast · 1 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 17 min
  6. Mar 19, 2026at SAS · No. 3 defense (that season, games so far)4 pts, 5 reb, 1 ast · 0 3PM · 0 stl, 1 blk · 14 min
  7. Mar 16, 2026at BOS · No. 5 defense (that season, games so far)2 pts, 3 reb, 0 ast · 0 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 12 min
  8. Mar 13, 2026at TOR · No. 8 defense (that season, games so far)2 pts, 1 reb, 1 ast · 0 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 4 min
  9. Feb 24, 2026vs BOS · No. 6 defense (that season, games so far)5 pts, 2 reb, 0 ast · 1 3PM · 0 stl, 1 blk · 6 min
  10. Feb 19, 2026at SAS · No. 3 defense (that season, games so far)4 pts, 6 reb, 0 ast · 0 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 8 min
  11. Feb 11, 2026vs OKC · No. 1 defense (that season, games so far)6 pts, 6 reb, 0 ast · 0 3PM · 0 stl, 1 blk · 12 min
  12. Jan 29, 2026vs DET · No. 2 defense (that season, games so far)0 pts, 0 reb, 0 ast · 0 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 2 min
  13. Jan 25, 2026vs MIA · No. 7 defense (that season, games so far)2 pts, 1 reb, 0 ast · 0 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 3 min
  14. Dec 10, 2025at OKC · No. 1 defense (that season, games so far)2 pts, 3 reb, 1 ast · 0 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 10 min
  15. Dec 5, 2025at HOU · No. 2 defense (that season, games so far)2 pts, 3 reb, 0 ast · 0 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 5 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 (5 games here, 39 games ranked on that season's games so far). Games are regular season; games he did not play are not counted. 8 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.