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Andrew Wiggins (Golden State Warriors), Shai Gilgeous-Alexander ( Oklahoma City Thunder), Bennedict Mathurin (Indiana Pacers), Jamal Murray (Denver Nuggets) - 2024-25 Canadian NBA Stats Tracker - Illustrations: Edilson J. Silva/BasketballBuzz

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2024-25 Canadian NBA stats tracker

Discover how Canadian players are dominating the 2024-25 NBA season, showcasing impressive scoring growth and a shift towards three-point shooting.

The maple leaf continues to wave proudly across NBA arenas, as Canada maintains its remarkable streak, leading all international countries in NBA player representation for the eleventh consecutive year.

The Great White North’s basketball pipeline shows no signs of slowing down as we enter the 2024-25 season. With 24 players suiting up for the campaign and a record 170 Canadian players featured on NCAA men’s rosters, the future remains bright for Canadian basketball.

What began as an initiative to delve beyond traditional box scores and uncover deeper patterns has evolved into the most comprehensive database of Canadian NBA player performance ever assembled.

When we first launched the Canadian Stats Tracker, we sought to answer fundamental questions about Canadian players’ impact across the NBA and NCAA: Were they securing more playing time? Was scoring on an upward trajectory? How were their roles evolving within their teams?

Now, with five seasons of meticulously tracked and archived data at our disposal, we can definitively answer these questions and identify clear patterns in the development of Canadian NBA talent.

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Scoring Evolution: Breaking down the 30 point mark

Canadian players have demonstrated remarkable growth in scoring efficiency. The year-over-year increase in total points scored reflects both improved efficiency and the rising number of Canadian players assuming prominent roles.

Last season, Canadian players scored 30 or more points in a game 67 times, nearly matching the record 70 occurrences in the 2022-23 season. This represents a significant leap from the 40 such games in the 2021-22 season.

Historically, until 2015, Canadian players had achieved this feat just 51 times in NBA history. The paradigm shifted with Andrew Wiggins’s emergence, who contributed four such games during his Rookie of the Year 2014-15 campaign and set a then-record with 10 games scoring 30 or more points in his sophomore season.

While Steve Nash stood alone for years as the only Canadian to maintain double-figure scoring throughout his career, averaging 14.3 points across 1,217 games, the 2024-25 season marks a historic milestone with ten Canadians averaging double digits in scoring for the first time.

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander leads this scoring revolution, nearly topping the league’s scoring charts with consecutive 30-plus point per game seasons. His remarkable offensive output has established a new benchmark for Canadian basketball excellence, pushing his career scoring average (23.0 PPG) well above fellow standouts Andrew Wiggins (18.5), RJ Barrett (18.6), Jamal Murray (17.5) and Dillon Brooks (14.1).

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The emergence of young talents like Bennedict Mathurin (16.0) and the explosive Shaedon Sharpe (11.2) further deepens the pool of Canadian scoring talent.

Canadian three-point revolution

The data reveals Canadian players’ wholesale embrace of the three-point revolution. The 3-Point Attempt Rate (3PAr) has climbed steadily over the last five seasons from 0.362% to an all-time high 0.425% early on this season, reflecting a strategic shift toward perimeter shooting.

This evolution reflects the league-wide shift towards spacing and three-point shooting, which is not entirely unexpected, given the greater number of Canadian perimeter players compared to centers in the NBA.

In earlier times, before Rick Fox and Steve Nash were drafted in the 1990s and into the early 2000s, Canadian representation in the NBA was predominantly made up of big men such as Bob Houbregs, Bobby Croft, Bill Wennington, Mike Smrek, Jamaal Magloire, Todd MacCulloch, Samuel Dalembert and Joel Anthony.

Further demonstrating this shift is the fact that Zach Edey, Canada’s tallest player to play in the NBA, already has more made three-pointers in just eleven career games than all of the players mentioned above. The seven-foot-four Memphis Grizzlies rookie finished his collegiate career at Purdue with just two attempts and one make in 138 games but has been given the green light to launch them when he is open.

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2023-24 Canadian NBA Stats Tracker – Per Game

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2023-24 Canadian NBA Stats Tracker – Advanced

NBA advanced metrics, dating back to the 1950s, provide deeper insights beyond traditional box scores. These sophisticated measures analyze crucial aspects such as playing time, usage rates, Player Efficiency Rating (PER), shooting tendencies, rebounding intensity, play-making abilities, and ball security.

Impact metrics like Win Shares (WS), Value Over Replacement Player (VORP), and Box Plus/Minus offer comprehensive insights into players’ contributions, illuminating their influence on winning, overall value, and on-court performance. Our innovative bubble chart combining these three metrics identifies standout performers and provides clear visualization of those driving excellence in these key areas.

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