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Ochai Agbaji

6′5″ · Inactive · last listed with New York Knicks

Regular season · Dec 7, 2025 · BOS 121 @ TOR 113 · Final

Ochai Agbaji: season-high 11 points vs Celtics (Dec 7, 2025)

ANSWER

11 PTS · 4-of-7 FG · 1-of-1 3P · 2-of-2 FT · 22:12 MIN

Usual before this game: 3.0 PTS · 3.4 FGA · 13.5 MIN, from 16 regular-season games

Best Game Score of 17 games this season: 9.6 against a usual 1.8 (+7.8)

Season-high 11 points (previous high 6, set on Nov 23, 2025 and Nov 30, 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 Ochai Agbaji score 11 points?

Ochai Agbaji scored 11 points against the Celtics on Dec 7, 2025 in 22:12: 4-of-7 from the field, 1-of-1 from three, 2-of-2 on free throws. Coming in, Agbaji had averaged 3.0 points on 3.4 shots in 13.5 minutes, from 16 regular-season games. The 11 points were a season high, above the previous 6. This game had the best Game Score of 17 games this season. Shot attempts: 7, against a usual 3.4. By shot type: two-pointers 6 points (usual 2.4); threes 3 points (usual 0.2); free throws 2 points (usual 0.4). Minutes: 22:12, against a usual 13.5; Game Score per 36 minutes: 15.6, against a usual 4.9. The Raptors lost 121-113 at home against the Celtics. 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

Agbaji in this game against the usual line

This game against the usual line
StatThis gameUsual (16 games)Change
Minutes22:1213.5+8.7
Points113.0+8.0
Shots (FGA) · FG%4-of-73.4 · 37.0%+3.6
3PA · 3P%1-of-11.2 · 5.3%-0.2
FTA · FT%2-of-20.6 · 70.0%+1.4
Rebounds31.9+1.1
Assists00.8-0.8
Turnovers00.3-0.3
UsageUsual: minutes-weighted average of per-game usage, 16 games15.612.5+3.1
Game Score per 36 minutes15.64.9+10.7
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
Threes3 (1-of-1)0.2 (0.1-of-1.2)+2.8
Twos6 (3-of-6)2.4 (1.2-of-2.2)+3.6
Free throws2 (2-of-2)0.4 (0.4-of-0.6)+1.6
Total113.0+8.0
03

Game Score

One measure of the whole box score line

9.6 against a usual 1.8 (+7.8)

Its five parts
The change in Game Score, by part
PartChange
Scoring, net of shot attempts+6.6
Rebounds+1.0
Assists-0.5
Steals and blocks+0.9
Turnovers and fouls-0.2
Total+7.8
04

Season so far

Regular season, in date order

Game Score in each of this season's 17 games, oldest first, this game last: 4.1, 1.1, 3, 4.7, -0.5, 4.3, 0.8, -0.7, -0.9, 2.2, 3.5, 2.7, -3.2, -0.2, 6.6, 1.9, 9.6

Best Game Score of 17 games this season.

Previous best: 6.6, set on Nov 30, 2025.

05

Context

From the rows this page already reads

  • The Raptors lost 121-113 at home against the Celtics.
  • Previous appearance: Dec 2, 2025, 5 days earlier.
  • Between the previous appearance and this game, the Raptors played 2 regular-season games, on Dec 4, 2025 and Dec 5, 2025; Agbaji was not in either box score; the data does not say why.
  • No earlier regular-season meetings with the Celtics 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.