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Kyrie Irving vs bottom-10 defenses

DAL · 2026-27 · regular season

Kyrie Irving has averaged 24.0 points and 3.0 assists per game in 1 game against bottom-10 defenses, vs 20.8 points and 5.3 assists in 4 games against everyone else (2026-27, regular season).

Vs bottom-10 defenses
24.0
points per game · 1 game
Vs everyone else
20.8
points per game · 4 games
Difference
+3.2
per game, bottom 10 minus everyone else

Career and by season

Kyrie Irving per game averages against bottom-10 defenses and everyone else, career and by season
PeriodOpponentsGamesPTSREBAST3PMSTLBLKMINFG%FT%TS%eFG%PTS diff vs others
CareerBottom 10124.01.03.05.01.01.024.953.3%100.0%73.5%70.0%+3.2
Everyone else420.84.05.32.81.30.529.652.5%100.0%65.5%61.9%
2026-27Bottom 10124.01.03.05.01.01.024.953.3%100.0%73.5%70.0%+3.2
Everyone else420.84.05.32.81.30.529.652.5%100.0%65.5%61.9%

Every game against bottom-10 defenses

  1. Oct 23, 2026at IND · No. 25 defense (prior season's final)24 pts, 1 reb, 3 ast · 5 3PM · 1 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 (5 games here, 0 games ranked on that season's games so far). Games are regular season; games he did not play are not counted. TS% = PTS ÷ (2 × (FGA + 0.44 × FTA)); eFG% = (FGM + 0.5 × 3PM) ÷ FGA; both from totals for each row. Past results, not a projection.