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Cade Cunningham
Cade Cunningham stats, teams and career impact
#1262 all-timeCareer averages · 22.5 PPG · 5.4 RPG · 8.0 APGPeak-weighted regular-season model · playoffs, awards, and championships excluded
- Position
- Point guard
- 2025–26 team
- Detroit Pistons
- Height / weight
- 6 ft 6 in (198 cm) · 220 lb (100 kg)
- Born
- September 25, 2001 (25 yrs old)
- College
- Oklahoma State
- NBA seasons
- 5 seasons · 2021–22 to 2025–26
Selected season2025–26 · DET · 64 games · 2,172 minutes
- PPG
- 23.9
- RPG
- 5.5
- APG
- 9.9
- #11 of 395 64 games · 2,172 minutes
- 97th percentile
Impact Rate Rank
Season Value percentile
Career overview
Why Cade Cunningham currently ranks #1262 all time
Cade Cunningham ranks #1262 all time. Across his three best seasons, his average league finish was #51.0. His full-career value already ranks #587 after 5 seasons, and his all-time position can still rise.
450+ minutes required per season
272 games · Career Value Rank #587
NBA honors2× All-Star · 2× All-NBAContext only; honors are not model inputs.
Head to head
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Full player detailsTeam history, career shooting and sources
Full team history
- Teams
- Detroit Pistons
Career shooting
NBA regular season- Field goal
- 44.9%FG%
- Three-point
- 34.0%3P%
- Free throw
- 84.0%FT%
272 career games · 9,186 minutes
Sources and updateConventional stats and measurements: Basketball Reference, accessed Sep 13, 2026. hussEyquation ranking data through 2025–26. Life dates: Wikidata; conflicting dates checked against Basketball Reference, accessed Sep 17, 2026.
Traditional box score
Cade Cunningham stats by season
Start with scoring and impact, then switch views for shooting or the full advanced picture. Career percentages use total makes and attempts.
Box impact is an estimate in points per 100 possessions, not the 0–100 Impact Rate score. Zero is league average; higher is better. Rate rank is a league place: No. 1 is best.
Swipe for PPG · RPG · APG · Box impact · Team · G · GS · MPG →
| pts/100 · higher is better | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025–26 | 23.9 | 5.5 | 9.9 | +4.71 | DET | 64 | 64 | 33.9 | 46.1% | 34.2% | 81.2% | #11 | 116.7 |
| 2024–25 | 26.1 | 6.1 | 9.1 | +3.07 | DET | 70 | 70 | 35.0 | 46.9% | 35.6% | 84.6% | #39 | 258.7 |
| 2023–24 | 22.7 | 4.3 | 7.5 | +0.79 | DET | 62 | 62 | 33.5 | 44.9% | 35.5% | 86.9% | #103 | 120.4 |
| 2022–23 | 19.9 | 6.2 | 6.0 | -1.64 | DET | 12 | 12 | 33.3 | 41.5% | 27.9% | 83.7% | — | 2.9 |
| 2021–22 | 17.4 | 5.5 | 5.6 | -0.37 | DET | 64 | 64 | 32.6 | 41.6% | 31.4% | 84.5% | #192 | 69.7 |
| Career | 22.5 | 5.4 | 8.0 | — | DET | 272 | — | 33.8 | 44.9% | 34.0% | 84.0% | — | — |
Source: Basketball Reference regular-season totals, accessed Sep 13, 2026.
Film evidence
Cade Cunningham highlights
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Season highlights
Cade Cunningham's spectacular season
Cade Cunningham's season highlights adds visual context to the numbers on this page, especially his pace, size and playmaking as Detroit's primary creator. The vetted footage complements the season tables and impact model.
RolePG · Age 24
Availability64 games · 64 starts
Workload33.9 MPG · 2,172 minutes
Relative impactDET #1 of 12 · PG #5 of 70
UpdatedOct 6, 2026
What these measures mean
- Box impact
- Estimated points per 100 possessions above that season's league average, from the historical box-score model. Zero is league average; higher is better. Historical defense estimates are included where labeled. This is not the live model's lineup-adjusted estimate.
- Impact Rate
- A 0–100 score comparing performance within one season. Higher is better. This is a score, not points per possession.
- Impact estimate
- The season model's final estimated points per 100 possessions above league average, before conversion to the 0–100 Impact Rate score. It includes lineup evidence where available. Zero is league average; higher is better.
- Impact Rate rank
- The player's place among qualified players in that season's Impact Rate ranking. No. 1 is best. This is a rank, not an impact score.
- Value contribution / Season Value
- Completed seasons use a fixed-baseline contribution to Career Value. The live season instead uses Season Value, combining that season's impact with workload.
- Career Impact Rank
- An all-time rank weighted toward the player's best three, five, and ten seasons.
64 games · 2,172 minutes · 96.4 / 100 · higher score is better · No. 1 is the best rank
116.7 total value · 395 qualified players
Career Composite 122.9 · lower is better · 5 seasons
Ranking certainty: Wide, likely #6–#201
- Impact Rate
- 0–100 score within one season. Higher is better.
- Box impact
- Estimated points per 100 possessions above league average, from the historical model. Zero is average; higher is better.
- Impact estimate
- The live model's final estimate in points per 100 possessions, including lineup evidence. It can differ from box impact. Higher is better.
Bottom line · 2025–26
Cade Cunningham delivered an elite 2025–26 campaign, ranking 11th in per-minute impact. His box-score profile ranked 13th, led by rebounding and shot blocking. After adjusting for teammates and opponents, his on-court offense was stronger than the box score indicated, lifting his overall rating. Over about 2,200 minutes, he finished in the 97th percentile for total season value.
2025–26 NBA percentile rankings: What drives Cade Cunningham's impact
395 qualified NBA playersEvery player in the comparison logged at least 450 minutes.
Compare with
Overall value
Impact Rate
0–100 score · higher is better
96.4 / 100Season Value
97
116.7Scoring role
Usage
96
30.5%True shooting
38
56.4%3-point attempt rate
24
30.8%Free-throw rate
73
32.1%Creation and control
Assist rate
99
45.2%Turnover avoidance
20
14.8%Possession stats
Rebound rate
52
9.2%Steal rate
75
2.0%Block rate
76
2.5%Lineup signal
Offensive lineup impact387-player lineup pool
97
+3.52 pts/100Defensive lineup impact387-player lineup pool
77
+1.01 pts/100Workload
Minutes per game
95
33.9Games played
53
64Total minutes
86
2,172A 0–100 score comparing performance within one season. Higher is better. This is a score, not points per possession. The other bars show percentiles in the selected comparison group. Farther right means more of the named trait, not automatically better basketball. Turnover avoidance reverses turnover rate. Lineup figures are points per 100 possessions; higher is better. Lineup rows exclude players below the 1,000-possession lineup-sample floor.
Ranking editions
How the ranking changed
Both editions use the source snapshot dated Jul 14, 2026. These are model-version changes, not results from new games. Each edition keeps its original published numbers.
96.4 Impact Rate · 2,172 MP
Ranking edition: Jul 21, 2026
First snapshot96.4 Impact Rate · 2,172 MP
Ranking edition: Oct 6, 2026
No rank changeEvery season
Cade Cunningham advanced stats by season
Era-centered box impact supports comparisons through time. Impact Rate and its rank compare players only within that season.
More advanced statsAge, minutes, impact, rank, value and data coverage
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Career movement
Cade Cunningham's box impact by season
Peak box impact +4.71 points per 100 possessions in 2025–26 · 5 seasons · 9,186 minutes
Box impact estimates points per 100 possessions above each season's league average. Zero is average; higher is better. Rank labels show Impact Rate league places, not ranks on this chart's box-impact scale.
Box impact · points per 100 possessionsMinutes
Player-specific impact scaleWorkload
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.
Cade CunninghamJosh Giddey
| NBA season | Cade Cunningham | Josh Giddey |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | -0.4 | 0.0 |
| 2 | -1.6 | 1.7 |
| 3 | 0.8 | 0.8 |
| 4 | 3.1 | 3.5 |
| 5 | 4.7 | 3.6 |
NBA season number
Similar career arcs
Players with careers similar to Cade Cunningham
The career-similarity score compares era-centered box impact, peak, prime, workload, career length, position, and experience-aligned trajectory. It describes career shape, not playing style, equal ability, or probability.
PG · All-Time Career #967
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93career similarity score
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90career similarity score
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90career similarity score
92/100 closest-season score · 2025–26 ↔ 2025–26Why this rank?
Why Cade Cunningham ranks #11
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.
Steps 1–4 use points per 100 possessions. Step 5 converts the final estimate to the 0–100 Impact Rate score. Higher is better on both scales; they are not the same number.
Prior rank #13
Current total +5.20 ±0.9
Split model · O +3.52 · D +1.01 = +4.53
Maximum ±1.25
Points per 100 possessions · higher is better
Higher is better · 96.4 before the MPG adjustment · rank #11
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.
Ranking certaintyWide
The model's 80% impact interval is +0.37 to +4.87. Exact ordering is difficult when many players have overlapping estimates.
- Top 25 chance
- 36%
- Top 50 chance
- 53%
- Top 100 chance
- 71%
- 80% rank range
- #6–#201
Impact Rate shows how strong a player was compared with everyone else that season. Season Value adds how much he played; completed player-profile rows instead show each season's fixed-baseline contribution to Career Value. Career Impact Rank 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 →