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Jordan Hawkins

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Regular season · Nov 26, 2025 · MEM 133 @ NOP 128 · Final

Jordan Hawkins: season-high 14 points vs Grizzlies (Nov 26, 2025)

ANSWER

14 PTS · 5-of-9 FG · 4-of-8 3P · 15:18 MIN

Usual before this game: 4.6 PTS · 5.6 FGA · 15.2 MIN, from 16 regular-season games

Best Game Score of 17 games this season: 11.4 against a usual 2.2 (+9.2)

Season-high 14 points (previous high 11, set on Nov 17, 2025)

SURPRISE SCORE
95Unusual
above usual

No more than 5 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 Jordan Hawkins score 14 points?

In 15:18 against the Grizzlies on Nov 26, 2025, Jordan Hawkins scored 14 points: 5-of-9 from the field, 4-of-8 from three (50.0%). Before this game, Hawkins averaged 4.6 points on 5.6 shots in 15.2 minutes across 16 regular-season games. No earlier game this season reached 14 points. By Game Score it was the best of 17 games this season. Shot attempts: 9, against a usual 5.6. By shot type: threes 12 points (usual 2.3). Playing time was 15:18, against a usual 15.2 minutes; per 36 minutes, the Game Score was 26.8, against a usual 5.3. The Pelicans lost 133-128 at home against the Grizzlies. 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

Hawkins in this game against the usual line

This game against the usual line
StatThis gameUsual (16 games)Change
Minutes15:1815.2+0.1
Points144.6+9.4
Shots (FGA) · FG%5-of-95.6 · 31.5%+3.4
3PA · 3P%8 · 50.0%2.9 · 26.1%+5.1 · +23.9
Rebounds11.9-0.9
Assists11.00.0
Turnovers10.4+0.6
UsageUsual: minutes-weighted average of per-game usage, 16 games29.017.1+11.9
Game Score per 36 minutes26.85.3+21.5
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 (16 games)Change
Threes12 (4-of-8)2.3 (0.8-of-2.9)+9.7
Twos2 (1-of-1)2.0 (1.0-of-2.7)0.0
Free throws0 (0-of-0)0.3 (0.3-of-0.4)-0.3
Total144.6+9.4
03

Game Score

One measure of the whole box score line

11.4 against a usual 2.2 (+9.2)

Its five parts
The change in Game Score, by part
PartChange
Scoring, net of shot attempts+8.4
Rebounds-0.4
Assists0.0
Steals and blocks+1.6
Turnovers and fouls-0.4
Total+9.2
04

Season so far

Regular season, in date order

Game Score in each of this season's 17 games, oldest first, this game last: 7.9, 4.7, -1.8, 0.5, -0.7, -0.5, 4.8, 0.6, -3, 3.9, 2.2, 4.2, 9.7, 1.9, 0.2, 1.1, 11.4

Best Game Score of 17 games this season.

Previous best: 9.7, set on Nov 17, 2025.

05

Context

From the rows this page already reads

  • The Pelicans lost 133-128 at home against the Grizzlies.
  • Previous appearance: Nov 22, 2025, 4 days earlier.
  • Between the previous appearance and this game, the Pelicans played on Nov 24, 2025; Hawkins was not in that box score; the data does not say why.
  • Earlier regular-season meetings with the Grizzlies this season: 8 points (Oct 22, 2025).
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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.