2024-25 Canadian NBA stats tracker

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.

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.

Kiki VanDeWeghe historically set the benchmark by recording 146 games with 30 or more points between 1980 and 1988. Up until 2015, other Canadian players had only achieved this milestone 51 times in NBA history.

The landscape began to change with the rise of Andrew Wiggins, who tallied four 30-point games during his Rookie of the Year season in 2014–15 and added ten more such performances in his sophomore year. Today, it’s uncommon for a week to pass without at least one Canadian player scoring 30 points in an NBA game.

While VanDeWeghe and Steve Nash stood alone for years as the only Canadians to maintain double-figure scoring throughout their careers, averaging 19.7 points in 13 seasons and over 810 games, and 14.3 points across 1,217 games, respectively, 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 three 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 (23.8 PPG) well above fellow standouts RJ Barrett (18.8), Andrew Wiggins (18.5), Jamal Murray (17.7) and Dillon Brooks (14.1).

The emergence of young talents like Bennedict Mathurin (16.0) and the explosive Shaedon Sharpe (13.1) further deepens the pool of Canadian scoring talent.

Canadian three-point revolution

The data highlights Canadian players’ growing adoption of the NBA’s emphasis on three-pointers. Over the last five seasons, the 3-Point Attempt Rate (3PAr) has risen from 0.362 to an all-time high of 0.425 early this season, showcasing a clear strategic focus on perimeter play.

This trend aligns with the league-wide evolution toward greater spacing and long-range efficiency—a shift well-suited to the skill sets of Canadian players, many of whom excel as perimeter-oriented guards and forwards rather than traditional post players.

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 thirteen 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.

2024-25 Canadian NBA Stats Tracker – Per Game

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Player	First	Last	Team	G	GS	MP	FG	FGA	FG%	3P	3PA	3P%	2P	2PA	2P%	eFG%	FT	FTA	FT%	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
	Shai	Gilgeous-Alexander	OKC	76	76	34.2	11.3	21.7	0.519	2.1	5.7	0.375	9.2	16.1	0.571	0.569	7.9	8.8	0.898	0.9	4.1	5.0	6.4	1.7	1.0	2.4	2.2	32.6
	Jamal	Murray	DEN	65	65	36.3	8.0	16.8	0.476	2.4	6.0	0.396	5.6	10.8	0.520	0.546	3.2	3.7	0.887	0.7	3.2	3.8	6.0	1.4	0.5	2.0	1.9	21.6
	RJ	Barrett	TOR	58	58	32.2	7.9	16.9	0.468	1.8	5.3	0.350	6.1	11.7	0.522	0.523	3.4	5.4	0.630	1.1	5.3	6.3	5.4	0.8	0.3	2.8	2.4	21.1
	Shaedon	Sharpe	POR	72	52	31.3	6.9	15.3	0.452	2.0	6.6	0.311	4.9	8.8	0.557	0.519	2.6	3.4	0.785	0.9	3.6	4.5	2.8	0.9	0.2	2.1	1.7	18.5
	Andrew	Wiggins	MIA	59	59	30.8	6.3	14.0	0.450	2.2	5.8	0.378	4.1	8.2	0.502	0.529	3.3	4.3	0.764	1.5	3.0	4.5	2.6	1.0	0.8	1.7	1.7	18.1
	Bennedict	Mathurin	IND	70	48	29.8	5.4	11.7	0.462	1.4	4.0	0.344	4.1	7.8	0.523	0.521	3.8	4.6	0.837	1.2	4.1	5.3	1.9	0.6	0.3	1.9	2.3	16.0
	Dillon	Brooks	HOU	74	74	32.0	5.1	12.0	0.430	2.5	6.3	0.397	2.7	5.7	0.466	0.534	1.3	1.6	0.818	1.0	2.7	3.7	1.7	0.8	0.2	1.0	3.2	14.1
	Andrew	Nembhard	IND	63	63	29.2	3.9	8.3	0.468	0.8	2.7	0.296	3.1	5.6	0.551	0.516	1.7	2.2	0.794	0.5	2.9	3.4	5.0	1.2	0.2	1.7	2.3	10.3
	Luguentz	Dort	OKC	71	71	29.2	3.6	8.4	0.435	2.4	5.8	0.412	1.2	2.5	0.489	0.578	0.5	0.6	0.717	1.3	2.9	4.1	1.6	1.1	0.5	0.7	2.9	10.1
	Chris	Boucher	TOR	50	0	17.2	3.6	7.4	0.492	1.4	3.9	0.363	2.2	3.5	0.633	0.586	1.4	1.7	0.782	1.4	3.1	4.5	0.7	0.5	0.5	0.6	1.4	10.0
				Avg = 50.9	Avg = 33.9	Avg = 20.1	Avg = 3.5	Avg = 7.6	Avg = 0.457	Avg = 1.3	Avg = 3.1	Avg = 0.341	Avg = 2.4	Avg = 4.5	Avg = 0.538	Avg = 0.527	Avg = 1.6	Avg = 2.1	Avg = 0.740	Avg = 1.0	Avg = 2.6	Avg = 3.5	Avg = 2.1	Avg = 0.7	Avg = 0.4	Avg = 1.1	Avg = 1.7	Avg = 9.7

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2024-25 Canadian NBA Stats Tracker – Totals

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Player	First	Last	Team	G	GS	MP	FG	FGA	FG%	3P	3PA	3P%	2P	2PA	2P%	eFG%	FT	FTA	FT%	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
	Shai	Gilgeous-Alexander	OKC	76	76	2598	846	1630	0.519	163	435	0.375	697	122	0.571	0.569	592	669	0.898	67	312	379	486	131	77	183	164	2442
	Jamal	Murray	DEN	65	65	2362	520	1093	0.476	154	389	0.396	366	704	0.520	0.546	211	238	0.887	43	206	249	393	91	33	133	125	1405
	Shaedon	Sharpe	POR	72	52	2252	499	1104	0.452	147	472	0.311	352	632	0.557	0.519	190	242	0.785	68	256	324	198	62	16	150	120	1335
	RJ	Barrett	TOR	58	58	1869	460	982	0.468	107	306	0.350	353	676	0.522	0.523	196	311	0.630	61	305	366	314	46	17	165	137	1223
	Bennedict	Mathurin	IND	70	48	2085	380	822	0.462	96	279	0.344	284	543	0.523	0.521	267	319	0.837	82	290	372	132	44	24	130	158	1123
	Andrew	Wiggins	MIA	59	59	1818	372	826	0.450	130	344	0.378	242	482	0.502	0.529	194	254	0.764	86	178	264	155	58	49	99	100	1068
	Dillon	Brooks	HOU	74	74	2366	381	886	0.430	184	463	0.397	197	423	0.466	0.534	99	121	0.818	75	199	274	127	60	16	76	240	1045
	Nickeil	Alexander-Walker	MIN	79	10	1994	260	593	0.438	136	354	0.384	124	239	0.519	0.553	88	113	0.779	53	200	253	210	47	33	96	134	744
	Luguentz	Dort	OKC	71	71	2073	258	593	0.435	170	413	0.412	88	180	0.489	0.578	33	46	0.717	89	204	293	115	79	39	51	208	719
	Andrew	Nembhard	IND	63	63	1838	245	523	0.468	50	169	0.296	195	354	0.551	0.516	108	136	0.794	34	181	215	315	77	11	110	145	648
				∑ = 1424	∑ = 746	∑ = 33131	∑ = 5942	∑ = 12748		∑ = 1873	∑ = 5200		∑ = 4083	∑ = 6475			∑ = 2654	∑ = 3402		∑ = 1485	∑ = 4122	∑ = 5607	∑ = 3392	∑ = 1096	∑ = 639	∑ = 1,732	∑ = 2686	∑ = 16406
									Avg = 0.457			Avg = 0.341			Avg = 0.538	Avg = 0.527			Avg = 0.740

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2024-25 Canadian NBA Stats Tracker – Advanced

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Player	First	Last	Team	G	GS	MP	PER	TS%	3PAr	FTr	ORB%	DRB%	TRB%	AST%	STL%	BLK%	TOV%	USG%	OWS	DWS	WS	WS/48	OBPM	DBPM	BPM	VORP
	Shai	Gilgeous-Alexander	OKC	76	76	2598	30.7	0.637	0.263	0.404	2.8	12.7	7.8	31.4	2.4	3.0	8.6	34.8	12.0	4.8	16.5	0.309	8.8	2.6	11.4	8.8
	Jamal	Murray	DEN	65	65	2362	17.9	0.587	0.356	0.218	2.1	9.1	5.8	23.2	1.9	1.2	10.0	23.9	4.6	1.6	6.1	0.125	1.8	-1.0	0.8	1.7
	Luguentz	Dort	OKC	71	71	2073	11.3	0.586	0.696	0.078	4.7	10.4	7.6	6.9	1.8	1.9	7.7	13.6	2.3	3.2	5.5	0.128	-0.6	0.8	0.2	1.2
	Dillon	Brooks	HOU	74	74	2366	11.1	0.556	0.523	0.137	3.3	9.1	6.2	7.5	1.2	0.6	7.5	17.7	2.7	2.6	5.3	0.107	-1.3	0.1	-1.3	0.5
	Zach	Edey	MEM	64	53	1353	18.5	0.623	0.122	0.280	17.8	23.0	20.4	6.3	1.2	5.6	15.1	16.7	2.6	2.1	4.7	0.166	-0.1	0.1	0.0	0.7
	Brandon	Clarke	MEM	64	18	1207	17.5	0.638	0.045	0.229	11.3	17.2	14.3	7.4	2.0	2.7	8.9	15.3	2.7	1.7	4.4	0.175	0.0	0.9	0.8	0.9
	Nickeil	Alexander-Walker	MIN	79	10	1994	11.5	0.579	0.597	0.191	3.0	11.0	7.0	14.7	1.2	1.5	13.0	16.1	1.8	2.2	4.0	0.096	-0.9	0.3	-0.5	0.7
	Andrew	Wiggins	MIA	59	59	1818	16.4	0.569	0.416	0.308	5.0	10.8	7.9	13.4	1.6	2.6	9.5	24.4	1.9	2.1	4.0	0.105	1.3	-0.3	1.0	1.4
	Bennedict	Mathurin	IND	70	48	2085	13.7	0.583	0.339	0.388	4.5	15.4	10.0	8.8	1.0	1.0	11.9	22.7	1.4	1.7	3.1	0.070	-1.2	-1.5	-2.8	-0.4
	Andrew	Nembhard	IND	63	63	1838	12.0	0.556	0.323	0.260	2.1	10.9	6.5	22.3	2.0	0.5	15.9	16.3	1.3	1.6	2.9	0.076	-2.4	0.4	-2.1	0.0
				Avg = 50.9	Avg = 33.9	Avg = 1,183.3	Avg = 14.4	Avg = 0.564	Avg = 0.418	Avg = 0.301	Avg = 6.4	Avg = 15.1	Avg = 10.7	Avg = 13.7	Avg = 1.7	Avg = 2.0	Avg = 10.7	Avg = 18.8	Avg = 1.8	Avg = 1.4	Avg = 2.9	Avg = 0.108	Avg = -0.7	Avg = -0.2	Avg = -0.9	Avg = 0.8

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