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Illustrated portrait of NBA player Alex Caruso

Alex Caruso

Alex Caruso advanced stats and career rankings

RoleSG · Age 31
Availability56 games · 0 starts
Workload18.2 MPG · 1,020 minutes
Relative impactOKC #7 of 13 · SG #19 of 109
UpdatedJul 21, 2026
EvidenceEstablished

Low ranking precision · Likely rank #46–#304

Bottom line · 2025–26

In 2025–26, Alex Caruso ranked 95th in per-minute impact. His box-score profile ranked 171st, led by rebounding and shot blocking. After adjusting for teammates and opponents, his on-court defense was stronger than the box score indicated, lifting his overall rating. With only about 1,000 minutes, he finished in the 71st percentile for total season value.

2025–26 NBA percentile rankings: What drives Alex Caruso's impact

395 qualified NBA playersEvery player in the comparison logged at least 450 minutes.
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Overall value

Impact Rate
76
68.0
Season Value
71
26.3

Scoring role

Usage
28
15.7%
True shooting
23
54.0%
3-point attempt rate
83
60.3%
Free-throw rate
26
17.0%

Creation and control

Assist rate
55
14.1%
Turnover avoidance
40
13.0%

Possession stats

Rebound rate
42
8.2%
Steal rate
99
3.4%
Block rate
58
1.6%

Lineup signal

Offensive lineup impact387-player lineup pool
68
+0.88
Defensive lineup impact387-player lineup pool
99
+3.61

Workload

Minutes per game
26
18.2
Games played
36
56
Total minutes
31
1,020

Farther right means more of the named trait, not automatically better basketball. Turnover avoidance reverses turnover rate. Lineup rows exclude players below the 1,000-possession lineup-sample floor.

Every season

Alex Caruso advanced stats by season

Era-centered box impact supports comparisons through time. Impact Rate and its rank compare players only within that season.

SeasonTeamAgeGPMPEra-centered box impactImpact RateRate rankSeason ValueValue percentileEvidence
2025–26live modelOKC31561,020-0.0468.0#9526.371stEstablished
2024–25OKC30541,041+2.9989.4#42108.277thStrong
2023–24CHI29712,040+2.7589.2#41194.489thStrong
2022–23CHI28671,575+0.7872.2#10689.869thStrong
2021–22CHI27411,147-0.5347.9#20134.646thStrong
2020–21LAL26581,216-1.0637.2#23223.540thStrong
2019–20Historical Defense EstimateLAL25641,175-0.6545.7#19233.345thStrong
2018–19Historical Defense EstimateLAL2425531+0.1663.3#13624.645thEstablished
2017–18Historical Defense EstimateLAL2337562-2.2322.4#281-2.724thEstablished

Career movement

Alex Caruso's career impact by season

Peak +2.99 in 2024–25 · 9 seasons · 10,307 minutes

The same historical box-score model is used for every season, making the career shape comparable through time. This is separate from the current lineup-context ranking.

Era-centered box impactMinutes
Across-era box estimateWorkload

Career comparison

Compare the shape, not the calendar

Align by NBA experience to compare season one with season one, or by age to compare players at the same stage of life.

Alex CarusoDonte DiVincenzo

NBA season number · fixed impact axis −5 to +15

Similar career arcs

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The score compares era-centered box impact, peak, prime, workload, career length, position, and trajectory aligned by NBA experience. It describes career shape, not playing style or equal ability.

Why this rank?

Why Alex Caruso ranks #95

The current model starts with box production, checks it against multi-season lineup evidence, caps that correction, then accounts for how many minutes the player was trusted to play each game.

01 · Box-score prior+0.63

Prior rank #171

02 · Multi-season RAPM+2.96

Current total +4.14 ±1.0
Split model · O +0.88 · D +3.61 = +4.49

03 · Bounded correction+0.65

Maximum ±0.75

04 · Model estimate+1.27

Before the within-season scale

05 · MPG-adjusted rate68.0

74.5 unadjusted · 87% role factor · rank #95

RAPM estimates lineup impact while controlling for the other nine players on the floor. The multi-season blend, current total model, and current offensive/defensive split are separate estimates, so they need not equal one another. hussEyquation uses the multi-season signal as a bounded correction, not as a standalone verdict.

What the point estimate meansLow precision

The model's 80% impact interval is -1.00 to +3.50. Exact ordering is difficult when many players have overlapping estimates.

Top 25 chance
1%
Top 50 chance
12%
Top 100 chance
33%
80% rank range
#46#304
How to read this page

Impact Rate shows how strong a player was compared with everyone else that season. Season Value adds how much he played. The career ranking rewards a high peak, a long prime, and repeated seasons near the top. Older seasons use clearly labeled estimates where the NBA did not record today's full set of statistics. Read how every ranking works →