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Nicolas Claxton vs top defenses

BKN · 2025-26 · regular season

Nicolas Claxton has averaged 10.5 points and 6.5 rebounds per game in 11 games against top-5 defenses, vs 11.1 points and 6.8 rebounds in 41 games against everyone else (2025-26, regular season).

Vs top-5 defenses
10.5
points per game · 11 games
Vs everyone else
11.1
points per game · 41 games
Difference
−0.6
per game, top 5 minus everyone else

Career and by season

Nicolas Claxton per game averages against top-5 defenses and everyone else, career and by season
PeriodOpponentsGamesPTSREBAST3PMSTLBLKMINFG%FT%TS%eFG%PTS diff vs others
CareerTop 51110.56.53.40.00.81.127.557.3%50.0%57.2%57.3%−0.6
Everyone else4111.16.83.60.10.61.027.157.6%57.9%59.1%58.1%
2025-26Top 51110.56.53.40.00.81.127.557.3%50.0%57.2%57.3%−0.6
Everyone else4111.16.83.60.10.61.027.157.6%57.9%59.1%58.1%

Every game against top-5 defenses

  1. Mar 18, 2026vs OKC · No. 1 defense (that season, games so far)4 pts, 6 reb, 1 ast · 0 3PM · 0 stl, 1 blk · 23 min
  2. Mar 10, 2026vs DET · No. 2 defense (that season, games so far)2 pts, 4 reb, 4 ast · 0 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 21 min
  3. Mar 7, 2026at DET · No. 2 defense (that season, games so far)2 pts, 6 reb, 4 ast · 0 3PM · 1 stl, 3 blk · 29 min
  4. Mar 5, 2026at MIA · No. 4 defense (that season, games so far)16 pts, 8 reb, 1 ast · 0 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 28 min
  5. Feb 27, 2026at BOS · No. 5 defense (that season, games so far)12 pts, 4 reb, 2 ast · 0 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 23 min
  6. Feb 26, 2026vs SAS · No. 3 defense (that season, games so far)12 pts, 7 reb, 3 ast · 0 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 24 min
  7. Feb 1, 2026at DET · No. 2 defense (that season, games so far)10 pts, 2 reb, 1 ast · 0 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 17 min
  8. Jan 19, 2026vs PHX · No. 4 defense (that season, games so far)12 pts, 8 reb, 6 ast · 0 3PM · 0 stl, 1 blk · 37 min
  9. Dec 29, 2025vs GSW · No. 4 defense (that season, games so far)15 pts, 9 reb, 4 ast · 0 3PM · 3 stl, 3 blk · 36 min
  10. Dec 27, 2025at MIN · No. 5 defense (that season, games so far)14 pts, 6 reb, 3 ast · 0 3PM · 1 stl, 1 blk · 30 min
  11. Dec 18, 2025vs MIA · No. 3 defense (that season, games so far)16 pts, 12 reb, 8 ast · 0 3PM · 2 stl, 3 blk · 35 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, 52 games ranked on that season's games so far). Games are regular season; games he did not play are not counted. 17 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.