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AJ Green

G · 6′4″ · Current team: Milwaukee Bucks

Regular season · Nov 26, 2025 · MIL 103 @ MIA 106 · Final

AJ Green: season-high 8 assists vs Heat (Nov 26, 2025)

ANSWER

12 PTS · 8 AST · 4-of-6 FG · 4-of-6 3P · 36:18 MIN

Usual before this game: 10.5 PTS · 1.7 AST · 7.1 FGA · 28.1 MIN, from this season's 18 games plus last season's average, counted as 1 game

Best Game Score of 19 games this season: 17.3 against a usual 7.3 (+10.0)

Season-high 8 assists (previous high 5, set on Nov 7, 2025)

SURPRISE SCORE
97Unusual
above usual

No more than 3 in 100 games by players at this level finish this far above their usual.

For a player who plays every game, a game this far above the usual comes about 2 to 4 times a season.

How the score works

Why did AJ Green have 8 assists?

AJ Green scored 12 points against the Heat on Nov 26, 2025 in 36:18: 4-of-6 from the field, 4-of-6 from three (66.7%), no free throw attempts. The usual line blends this season's 18 games with last season's average, counted as 1 game: 10.5 points on 7.1 shots in 28.1 minutes. The 8 assists were a season high, above the previous 5. By Game Score it was the best of 19 games this season. By shot type: threes 12 points (usual 9.0). Minutes: 36:18, against a usual 28.1; Game Score per 36 minutes: 17.2, against a usual 9.3. Green had 8 assists, against a usual 1.7. The Bucks lost 106-103 at the Heat. The box score records what changed, not why: it holds no injury, matchup or coaching information.

Generated from the box score and this season's game log. How the score works

01

What changed

Green in this game against the usual line

This game against the usual line
StatThis gameUsual (blended)Change
Minutes36:1828.1+8.2
Points1210.5+1.5
Shots (FGA) · FG%4-of-67.1 · 47.1%-1.1
3PA · 3P%6 · 66.7%6.4 · 46.8%-0.4 · +19.9
FTA · FT%0-of-01.1 · 76.3%-1.1
Rebounds52.6+2.4
Assists81.7+6.3
Turnovers00.8-0.8
UsageUsual: minutes-weighted average of per-game usage, 18 games7.013.1-6.1
Game Score per 36 minutes17.29.3+7.9
02

Points by shot type

Twos, threes and free throws: the changes add up to the points change

Points by shot type against the usual line
Shot typeThis gameUsual (blended)Change
Threes12 (4-of-6)9.0 (3.0-of-6.4)+3.0
Twos0 (0-of-0)0.7 (0.3-of-0.7)-0.7
Free throws0 (0-of-0)0.8 (0.8-of-1.1)-0.8
Total1210.5+1.5
03

Game Score

One measure of the whole box score line

17.3 against a usual 7.3 (+10.0)

Its five parts
The change in Game Score, by part
PartChange
Scoring, net of shot attempts+2.6
Rebounds+0.7
Assists+4.4
Steals and blocks+1.5
Turnovers and fouls+0.8
Total+10.0
04

Season so far

Regular season, in date order

Game Score in each of this season's 19 games, oldest first, this game last: 8.8, 6.2, 13.1, 5.3, 5.3, 11.2, 8.4, 6.8, 4.8, 1.8, 10.2, 2.1, 11.2, 9.9, 10.1, 6.7, 9.8, 1.6, 17.3

Best Game Score of 19 games this season.

Previous best: 13.1, set on Oct 26, 2025.

05

Context

From the rows this page already reads

  • The Bucks lost 106-103 at the Heat.
  • Previous appearance: Nov 24, 2025, 2 days earlier.
  • No earlier regular-season meetings with the Heat this season.
06

What this page cannot tell you

The same on every performance page

Limits

Box scores record what happened, not why: no injuries or health, defensive assignments, matchups, coaching decisions or play-by-play.

METHOD

Game Score against the player's own usual line. How rare a gap is comes from NBA regular-season games of 2023-24 and 2024-25, checked on 2025-26.