Trae Young leads the NBA with 12.1 assists per game.
Trae Young keeps leveling up. Every season, the Atlanta Hawks’ floor general has managed to top his assists average from the year before, and this year’s no different. In fact, he’s currently making the biggest leap we’ve seen from his seven seasons, piling up a league-best 12.1 assists per game.
Nobody else in the league is averaging 10 assists or more so far this season. Cade Cunningham, Nikola Jokić, and LeBron James are the only others averaging more than nine assists on the year.
Three of the four best assist performances this season belong to Trae Young, including a 22-assist outing against the Cavaliers in November. He’s tied…