NBA scorer vs defender matchup history
How a scorer actually performed against a specific defender, possession by possession, next to his own rate against everyone else. One page per pairing.
Only pairings with at least 6 meetings and 150 partial matchup possessions, plus 25 shots, appear in this index. Each report includes a dated game ledger, competition context, complete baseline and one-game sensitivity check. Smaller samples remain available in Matchup Lab.
Possessions here are partial matchup possessions, only the stretches these two were actually matched up, so points per possession runs far below the roughly 1.1 a full team scores. Every figure is meant to be read against the same player's own season rate in the same unit.
Most-tracked pairings
The pairs with the largest samples, which are the ones worth reading first.
Wendell Carter Jr. vs Jalen Duren
11 meetings · 407.2 poss · 0.13 pts/poss
31% below his season rate of 0.19.
Rudy Gobert vs Nikola Jokić
10 meetings · 404.5 poss · 0.10 pts/poss
38% below his season rate of 0.16.
Jalen Duren vs Wendell Carter Jr.
11 meetings · 394.6 poss · 0.14 pts/poss
56% below his season rate of 0.31.
Nikola Jokić vs Rudy Gobert
10 meetings · 386.1 poss · 0.29 pts/poss
23% below his season rate of 0.38.
Jamal Murray vs Jaden McDaniels
10 meetings · 337.5 poss · 0.25 pts/poss
31% below his season rate of 0.36.
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander vs Stephon Castle
11 meetings · 315 poss · 0.26 pts/poss
42% below his season rate of 0.45.
OG Anunoby vs Jalen Johnson
9 meetings · 294.7 poss · 0.17 pts/poss
32% below his season rate of 0.25.
Tyrese Maxey vs Derrick White
11 meetings · 293.8 poss · 0.26 pts/poss
28% below his season rate of 0.35.
Jarrett Allen vs Jalen Duren
10 meetings · 286 poss · 0.17 pts/poss
31% below his season rate of 0.25.
Paolo Banchero vs Tobias Harris
9 meetings · 283.2 poss · 0.23 pts/poss
28% below his season rate of 0.32.
Every published pairing (66)
Grouped by the scorer, then by the defender who guarded him.
Alperen Sengun
- vs Deandre Ayton8g · 0.21
Amen Thompson
- vs Rui Hachimura9g · 0.16
Ausar Thompson
- vs Jalen Suggs11g · 0.16
Cade Cunningham
- vs Anthony Black9g · 0.28
- vs Dean Wade8g · 0.18
De'Aaron Fox
- vs Cason Wallace10g · 0.25
- vs Jaden McDaniels9g · 0.24
- vs Toumani Camara8g · 0.18
Deandre Ayton
- vs Alperen Sengun8g · 0.17
- vs Isaiah Hartenstein8g · 0.13
Derrick White
- vs Tyrese Maxey11g · 0.16
- vs VJ Edgecombe11g · 0.10
Desmond Bane
- vs Ausar Thompson11g · 0.15
Devin Booker
- vs Luguentz Dort6g · 0.27
Donovan Clingan
- vs Luke Kornet8g · 0.20
Donovan Mitchell
- vs Ausar Thompson9g · 0.17
- vs Jamal Shead9g · 0.23
Evan Mobley
- vs Jalen Duren10g · 0.22
- vs Karl-Anthony Towns7g · 0.22
- vs Tobias Harris10g · 0.24
Isaiah Hartenstein
- vs Victor Wembanyama10g · 0.23
Jaden McDaniels
- vs Jamal Murray10g · 0.24
Jalen Brunson
- vs Dyson Daniels9g · 0.27
- vs Nickeil Alexander-Walker9g · 0.31
- vs Stephon Castle8g · 0.21
- vs VJ Edgecombe8g · 0.26
Jalen Duren
- vs Evan Mobley10g · 0.27
- vs Jarrett Allen10g · 0.19
- vs Wendell Carter Jr.11g · 0.14
Jalen Johnson
- vs Josh Hart7g · 0.19
- vs OG Anunoby9g · 0.24
Jamal Murray
- vs Jaden McDaniels10g · 0.25
James Harden
- vs Cade Cunningham9g · 0.18
- vs Mikal Bridges6g · 0.05
- vs Scottie Barnes8g · 0.24
Jarrett Allen
- vs Jalen Duren10g · 0.17
Jaylen Brown
- vs Kelly Oubre Jr.11g · 0.25
Julian Champagnie
- vs Jalen Brunson8g · 0.13
Julius Randle
- vs Spencer Jones7g · 0.26
- vs Stephon Castle8g · 0.15
Karl-Anthony Towns
- vs Evan Mobley7g · 0.18
- vs Onyeka Okongwu8g · 0.29
Kelly Oubre Jr.
- vs Jaylen Brown11g · 0.13
LeBron James
- vs Tari Eason9g · 0.26
Luke Kornet
- vs Donovan Clingan8g · 0.21
Mikal Bridges
- vs Tyrese Maxey8g · 0.22
Nikola Jokić
- vs Julius Randle10g · 0.35
- vs Rudy Gobert10g · 0.29
OG Anunoby
- vs Jalen Johnson9g · 0.17
Onyeka Okongwu
- vs Karl-Anthony Towns8g · 0.21
Paolo Banchero
- vs Tobias Harris9g · 0.23
Payton Pritchard
- vs VJ Edgecombe11g · 0.10
Rudy Gobert
- vs Nikola Jokić10g · 0.10
Rui Hachimura
- vs Chet Holmgren7g · 0.31
Scottie Barnes
- vs Evan Mobley10g · 0.30
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander
- vs Stephon Castle11g · 0.26
Stephon Castle
- vs Josh Hart7g · 0.18
Tobias Harris
- vs James Harden9g · 0.20
- vs Paolo Banchero9g · 0.18
Tyrese Maxey
- vs Derrick White11g · 0.26
- vs Mikal Bridges8g · 0.14
Victor Wembanyama
- vs Isaiah Hartenstein9g · 0.38
- vs Karl-Anthony Towns8g · 0.26
- vs Rudy Gobert7g · 0.43
VJ Edgecombe
- vs Payton Pritchard11g · 0.20
Wendell Carter Jr.
- vs Jalen Duren11g · 0.13
Research view
The same data is browsable and sortable in the Edge research tables, a section for people analysing matchups rather than coaching them. It carries no odds, no picks, and no sportsbook links, and it is 21+.
Aggregated from NBA player-matchup tracking for 2025-26, across all competition types. Figures describe what happened while two players were matched up and do not isolate one player's effect on the other.