Player profile · NOH / SAC

Darryl Watkins

Darryl Watkins stats, teams and career impact

CareerCareer averages · 2.5 PPG · 2.8 RPG · 0.2 APG

Position: Center
Final NBA team: New Orleans Hornets
Height / weight: 6 ft 11 in (211 cm) · 258 lb (117 kg)
Born: November 8, 1984 (41 yrs old)
College: Syracuse
NBA seasons: 2 seasons · 2007–08 to 2011–12

Career or season view

Career summaryDarryl Watkins was a center who played 2 NBA seasons, from 2007–08 through 2011–12.

Career PPG: 2.5
Career RPG: 2.8
Career APG: 0.2; Not ranked; Not ranked

Career overview

Why Darryl Watkins is not in the all-time ranking

Darryl Watkins does not have an official all-time career rank because no season reached the 450-minute ranking floor. His cumulative Career Value still ranks #3466.

PeakNo qualifying peak

No season reached 450 minutes

Sustained excellenceNo ranked seasons

No season reached 450 minutes

Career breadth2 seasons

14 games · Career Value Rank #3466

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Full player detailsTeam history, career shooting and sources

Full team history

Teams: Sacramento Kings and New Orleans Hornets
Greatest Pelicans →Greatest Kings →

Career shooting

NBA regular season

Field goal: 41.4%FG%
Three-point: —3P%
Free throw: 47.8%FT%

14 career games · 169 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

Darryl Watkins stats by season

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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.

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				pts/100 · higher is better
2011–12	4.6	5.4	0.6	-6.60	NOH	5	0	19.6	50.0%	—	50.0%	—	-8.3
2007–08	1.3	1.3	0.0	-12.05	SAC	9	0	7.9	33.3%	—	40.0%	—	-14.1
Career	2.5	2.8	0.2	—	NOH/SAC	14	—	12.1	41.4%	—	47.8%	—	—

Source: Basketball Reference regular-season totals, accessed Sep 13, 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.

Career Impact RankNot ranked

No season reached the 450-minute floor

Best 5Not ranked

No season reached the 450-minute floor

Career Value Rank#3466

-22 total value

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.

Career standing

How Darryl Watkins ranks all time

These are league placements, not raw scores. Each season is judged against that season's qualified player pool.

Number-one seasons0

Best in the league

Top-five seasons0

Elite finishes

Top-ten seasons0

Upper-tier finishes

Top-10 Impact Margin0.0

Tie-breaker across top-ten seasons

Career Composite Score—

Best 3, Best 5, and Best 10 average league finishes receive 50%, 30%, and 20% window weights. Missing seasons receive a replacement finish just below the player's typical qualified field. Lower is better.

Best 3 effective weight: 74%
Missing-season finish: —
Qualified seasons: 0
All-time rank: —

Every season

Darryl Watkins 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

					pts/100 · higher is better	0–100 · higher is better
2011–12Historical Defense Estimate	NOH	27	5	98	-6.60	—	—	-8.3	—	Limited
2007–08Historical Defense Estimate	SAC	23	9	71	-12.05	—	—	-14.1	—	Limited

Career movement

Darryl Watkins's box impact by season

Peak box impact -6.60 points per 100 possessions in 2011–12 · 2 seasons · 169 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

—’09

—’10

—’11

Player-specific impact scaleWorkload

Early-career comparison

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Both players are limited to their first 2 seasons. Later seasons never affect the selection or score, and the result is not a career prediction.

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Darryl WatkinsWill Perdue

Box impactEra-adjusted points per 100 possessions above league average · higher is better · dashed marker means the player did not play

Darryl Watkins and Will Perdue era-centered impact values by NBA season number
NBA season	Darryl Watkins	Will Perdue
1	-12.1	-8.8
2	-6.6	-6.1

NBA season number · first 2 seasons only

Similar starts

Players with starts similar to Darryl Watkins

The start-similarity percentile compares era-relative impact, season-relative workload, trajectory, debut age, and role across exactly 2 seasons and 2,352 eligible starts. Higher means closer; it is not a probability or forecast.

C · All-Time Career #1466

Will Perdue

93.3

start similarity percentile

Impact: very closeWorkload: closeTrend: closeAge: very closeRole: very close

Limited evidence · first 2 seasonsClosest early-season pairing · 2011–12 ↔ 1988–89 PF · All-Time Career #3075

Johnny O'Bryant

93.1

start similarity percentile

Impact: very closeWorkload: closeTrend: closeAge: closeRole: close

Limited evidence · first 2 seasonsClosest early-season pairing · 2011–12 ↔ 2015–16 C · All-Time Career #1149

Walt Wesley

92.2

start similarity percentile

Impact: closeWorkload: closeTrend: very closeAge: very closeRole: very close

Limited evidence · first 2 seasonsClosest early-season pairing · 2011–12 ↔ 1967–68

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; 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 →