Yes. A few players are clearly running hot right now, and a few category leaders look genuinely unusual relative to normal star baselines.

Current Statistical Anomalies / High-Performance Runs

1. Nikola Jokic: absurd all-around production

Jokic is the biggest anomaly profile right now.

• Season: 27.7 PPG, 13.0 RPG, 10.8 APG
• PRA: 51.5 per game, highest among high-usage stars
• Last 10: 22.4 PPG, 14.4 RPG, 12.8 APG
• He has multiple recent monster triple-double style games:
  • 23-21-19 vs Dallas
  • 23-17-17 at Phoenix
  • 33-15-12 vs Utah

Why it stands out:

• It’s not just scoring volume. He’s functioning like a league-leading rebounder and elite primary creator at the same time.
• A center averaging around 13 rebounds and nearly 11 assists is the statistical outlier.

2. Luka Doncic: elite scoring heater

Luka looks like he’s been on one of the strongest scoring runs in the league.

• Season: league-leading 33.5 PPG
• PRA: 49.5 per game
• In his last 10 before the ugly OKC dud, he posted:
  • 42 vs Cleveland
  • 41 vs Brooklyn
  • 43 at Indiana
  • 60 at Miami
  • 40 at Houston
  • 36 at Houston
• Even including the 12-point game vs OKC, his recent scoring sample is still huge.

Why it stands out:

• This is a sustained high-volume scoring run, not a one-game spike.
• He’s pairing that with strong secondary creation, so it’s not empty shot volume.

3. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander: elite efficiency plus star scoring

SGA’s run is less explosive than Luka’s raw top-end, but maybe more stable.

• Season: 31.6 PPG, 6.5 APG
• True shooting: 66.4%
• Recent scoring outputs:
  • 47 vs Detroit
  • 40 at Washington
  • 40 at Orlando
  • 33 at Boston
  • 30 vs New York
  • 28 vs Lakers in only 30 minutes

Why it stands out:

• 30+ scoring at that efficiency is rare for a perimeter lead guard.
• He’s doing it without the same volatility as some other volume scorers.

4. Cade Cunningham: assist surge

If you want a category-specific run, Cade’s playmaking is one of the clearest.

• Season: 9.9 APG, among league leaders
• Last 10: season sample already strong, but recent game log shows repeated huge assist totals:
  • 15 vs Memphis
  • 13 vs Philadelphia
  • 15 at Brooklyn
  • 10 at Miami
  • 14 at Cleveland
  • 11 at Orlando

Why it stands out:

• That’s a real high-end assist run, not just hovering around 8–9.
• For your Pistons angle, this is one of the more actionable trends on the board.

5. Jaylen Brown: scoring/playmaking spike

Brown’s recent stretch looks stronger than his season baseline.

• Season: 28.8 PPG, 7.0 RPG, 5.3 APG
• Last 10: 29.3 PPG, 5.9 RPG, 6.2 APG
• Recent lines:
  • 43 vs Miami
  • 41 vs Phoenix
  • 34 at OKC
  • 32 vs Golden State
  • 31 vs OKC
  • 29-10-9 at Atlanta

Why it stands out:

• Not just scoring; the assist bump suggests more on-ball creation than his baseline role.

6. Victor Wembanyama: blocks remain the cleanest defensive anomaly

Wemby still looks like the most abnormal defensive stat producer.

• Season: 3.1 blocks per game, No. 1 in the league
• Also averaging 24.7 points and 11.5 rebounds

Why it stands out:

• A player giving you 25/11 with 3+ blocks is still an outlier archetype.
• That level of rim protection while carrying offensive volume is rare.

Best Category-Specific Runs Right Now

Scoring

1. Luka Doncic - strongest recent scoring heater
2. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander - elite scoring with absurd efficiency
3. Jaylen Brown - recent spike above already-high season level

Assists

1. Nikola Jokic - center-level assist anomaly
2. Cade Cunningham - clear recent playmaking surge
3. Luka Doncic - still strong dual scoring/assist profile

PRA

1. Nikola Jokic - most unusual all-around profile
2. Luka Doncic - elite usage + scoring + decent board/assist floor
3. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander - a bit lower PRA than Luka/Jokic but more efficient

Defensive category

1. Victor Wembanyama blocks - clearest defensive anomaly

Most Actionable “anomaly” answer

If I had to narrow it to the clearest three:

1. Jokic’s rebounds + assists combination
2. Luka’s recent scoring binge
3. Cade’s assist run

One note: a couple leaderboard outputs in the wider data look noisy, especially for threes and a few unnamed players, so I’d trust the named recent-game runs above much more than the weird fringe leaderboard entries.

If you want, I can turn this into:

• best current player prop angles, or
• a category-by-category hot streak board for points, rebounds, assists, threes, and blocks.

Nikola Jokic’s anomaly is that he’s not just producing star numbers, he’s stacking them in all three core box-score categories at once. His recent stretch has stayed around a 50.5 PRA average over a 17-game sample, which is absurd for a player also operating as a primary creator.

His three headline lines make the point immediately:

• vs Dallas: 23 points, 21 rebounds, 19 assists = 63 PRA
• at Phoenix: 23 points, 17 rebounds, 17 assists = 57 PRA
• vs Utah: 33 points, 15 rebounds, 12 assists = 60 PRA

Here’s a visual of his recent game-by-game PRA run:

The biggest takeaway from the chart is consistency, not just ceiling. Jokic isn’t living off one explosion; he’s repeatedly landing in the 50+ PRA zone, with multiple games in the upper 50s and low 60s. That’s what makes it an actual anomaly rather than a hot week.

If you frame it against his baseline:

• Season: 27.7 PPG, 13.0 RPG, 10.8 APG
• Season PRA: 51.5
• Last 10: 22.4 PPG, 14.4 RPG, 12.8 APG

Even when the scoring dips, the rebound and assist load keeps the total production in elite territory. That’s the Jokic anomaly: he can have a “quiet” scoring night and still end up with a monstrous overall line because he controls every possession type.

Yes — and the cleanest way to show it is as a comparison line, not a true game-by-game “league starter average trendline,” because I don’t have a direct league-wide starter-by-date PRA feed here.

So I’m using a strong proxy: league average PRA among high-usage star-level players this season. That gives us a meaningful benchmark for how far Jokic is separating from even elite offensive engines.

Benchmark used

From the current high-usage player pool, the average PRA is about 38.4.

That makes Jokic’s:

• Season PRA: 51.5
• Recent featured monster games: 57, 60, 63

…stand out as massively above even star-level norms.

Visual: Jokic PRA vs Elite-Player PRA Benchmark

What the chart shows

• Jokic’s season average is already about 13.1 PRA above this elite-player benchmark.
• His three highlighted triple-double explosions are roughly 18.6 to 24.6 PRA above that same line.
• Even his last-10 average sits about 11.2 PRA above the benchmark.

That’s why this qualifies as an anomaly. He isn’t just leading a category — he’s operating in a range that is clearly detached from what even other high-usage stars usually produce.

Best interpretation

If you want the strongest visual storytelling version, I’d frame it this way:

• Purple line = “what a great offensive engine usually looks like”
• White line = “what Jokic is doing”

And Jokic is comfortably above it almost the entire time.

If you want, I can next build either:

1. a bar chart of Jokic vs Luka / SGA / Giannis in season PRA, or
2. a game-by-game Jokic PRA chart with a horizontal benchmark line using a longer recent sample.