Paul George vs top defenses
Paul George has averaged 18.0 points and 4.9 rebounds per game in 7 games against top-5 defenses, vs 18.1 points and 5.6 rebounds in 34 games against everyone else (2025-26 to 2026-27, regular season).
- Vs top-5 defenses
- 18.0
- points per game · 7 games
- Vs everyone else
- 18.1
- points per game · 34 games
- Difference
- −0.1
- per game, top 5 minus everyone else
Career and by season
| Period | Opponents | Games | PTS | REB | AST | 3PM | STL | BLK | MIN | FG% | FT% | TS% | eFG% | PTS diff vs others |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Career | Top 5 | 7 | 18.0 | 4.9 | 3.6 | 3.3 | 2.6 | 0.3 | 32.1 | 43.0% | 76.7% | 59.3% | 55.4% | −0.1 |
| Everyone else | 34 | 18.1 | 5.6 | 3.9 | 2.7 | 1.7 | 0.4 | 31.3 | 44.6% | 87.5% | 57.1% | 53.8% | ||
| 2026-27 | Top 5 | 1 | 38.0 | 5.0 | 3.0 | 7.0 | 5.0 | 0.0 | 30.6 | 57.1% | 87.5% | 77.5% | 73.8% | +20.8 |
| Everyone else | 5 | 17.2 | 6.2 | 5.4 | 2.4 | 1.8 | 0.4 | 31.0 | 43.2% | 90.9% | 54.5% | 51.4% | ||
| 2025-26 | Top 5 | 6 | 14.7 | 4.8 | 3.7 | 2.7 | 2.2 | 0.3 | 32.3 | 38.9% | 72.7% | 53.9% | 50.0% | −3.5 |
| Everyone else | 29 | 18.2 | 5.5 | 3.6 | 2.8 | 1.7 | 0.4 | 31.3 | 44.8% | 87.0% | 57.5% | 54.2% |
Every game against top-5 defenses
- Oct 20, 2026at DET · No. 2 defense (prior season's final)38 pts, 5 reb, 3 ast · 7 3PM · 5 stl, 0 blk · 31 min
- Apr 9, 2026at HOU · No. 5 defense (that season, games so far)7 pts, 4 reb, 1 ast · 0 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 24 min
- Apr 6, 2026at SAS · No. 3 defense (that season, games so far)16 pts, 4 reb, 4 ast · 4 3PM · 2 stl, 0 blk · 38 min
- Apr 4, 2026vs DET · No. 2 defense (that season, games so far)20 pts, 5 reb, 4 ast · 3 3PM · 2 stl, 0 blk · 28 min
- Apr 3, 2026vs MIN · No. 5 defense (that season, games so far)23 pts, 6 reb, 6 ast · 3 3PM · 4 stl, 1 blk · 38 min
- Jan 22, 2026vs HOU · No. 5 defense (that season, games so far)10 pts, 6 reb, 4 ast · 2 3PM · 3 stl, 1 blk · 37 min
- Dec 28, 2025at OKC · No. 1 defense (that season, games so far)12 pts, 4 reb, 3 ast · 4 3PM · 1 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 (6 games here, 35 games ranked on that season's games so far). Games are regular season; games he did not play are not counted. 3 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.